A major canal-side residential development in Birmingham has reached 90% sold, in one of the clearest signals yet that investor appetite for the city's regeneration corridors remains robust despite two years of higher interest rates and cooling transaction volumes elsewhere in the UK. The scheme, occupying a prominent waterside plot within the city's expanding network of former industrial canal frontage, has moved through its release phases at a pace that developers and agents describe as significantly ahead of typical absorption rates for comparable UK regional apartment schemes, which have averaged closer to 60-70% sold at equivalent points in their sales cycles over the past 18 months.