The Forum is quite new building with 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom or 3 bedroom apartments in the city centre. The location is definitely one of the best features of this building. Another feature would be lobby with coffee machine which is free to use for all tenants, comfortable arm chairs and plenty of room for those who work from home. There are 3 exterior spaces: rooftop, outdoor lounge and pet area. From the rooftop, you have amazing view either on city centre or Birmingham suburbs on the other side, but it is open only until 11 pm. Outdoor lounge has pizza oven and grill, but you have to be prepared to pay a fee if you would like to use them. I have 1 bedroom apartment which is on the ground floor. It is quite spacious and it has amazing terrace. The apartment was furnished with very stylish furniture and it was all i needed in the beginning.

My partner and I have lived in the Forum for 6 weeks now and have had nothing but an exceptional experience. After struggling for months to find anywhere that ticked all the boxes through sites such as Rightmove and other generic ones, booking viewings with the scraps we could find that nearly ticked half the boxes and then the agents not even turning up, we were told about the Forum. We instantly fell in love and emailed our interest. After being initially told there were currently no lettings we were quickly permitted to cheekily come and see the building and the facilities to our delight. Within another week the first lettings were open and we were speedily and professionally moved through the process of renting which I was new to being a homeowner. Even with issues from the Tenancy Deposit Services, which Jodie quickly rectified without even a second thought and in all honesty were not even her problems to deal with. This act set the tone for the subsequent events in our experience at the Forum. Upon moving in we had a couple of small understandable issues due to the extremely fast turn around to get us in our apartment which were rectified by Harpreet and the team before we had even gotten home from work. I feel that Harpreet has superseded any expectations I had of a residential manager from what my friend’s and partner’s experiences had been up until now. He goes the extra mile at any opportunity and you can see that he truly cares about your experience and stay at the Forum. He has more than accommodated my needs for parking with electric charging, offering to introduce us to other residents at the Forum for business connections and enquiring to have Sky Q organised for my apartment without any hesitation. We received a newsletter recently that really blew me away with how much thought and attention to detail had gone into it. You could really tell the time and love that had gone into it as I would never normally give them the time of day. Overall I could not recommend the Forum enough. I run a large company and if my staff acted the way that Harpreet and his team do I would be very proud.

We moved in when the building had just completed construction and while there were a few growing pains in the beginning, we have loved every single moment at the Forum. The building is soooooo incredibly pet friendly and the community here has kept us giggling with pet photos in the building’s WhatsApp group. The rooftop commons area is just fabulous. The gym (when it’s allowed to be open due to government Covid restrictions) is just fine…it is small but the equipment is all new and reasonably well-equipped (the video feed for spin and boxing classes is pretty great) and as it is only open to residents is rarely overly crowded. My only criticism is that parking onsite seems expensive compared to other options in the city center, so you may want to price check that if you own a car.

The building is great, very clean and efficient designs. We were on the 8th floor with a balcony view of the city. We loved the two bedroom apartment: all the services and appliances were good and made our days easy and enjoyable. The management and service teams were friendly, responsive, and did their best to make our stay here as good as could be.