Agreements have been signed with serviced apartments provider BridgeStreet Worldwide and residential investor Plus Dane Group, who will lease five residential blocks at the £1bn Liverpool One development.

BridgeStreet, which provides serviced apartments to business and leisure travellers, is leasing 78 apartments while Plus Dane Group, which was formed from the merger of Liverpool-based Plus Housing Group and Congleton-based Dane Housing Group in July this year, will lease 95 apartments which will be occupied by key-workers.

The apartments, above the 1.4m sq ft of retail space of Liverpool One, are being marketed under the brand 'Liverpool One Apartments.'

The apartments are due for completion by the end of September, and a second phase of 326 flats will be completed in Spring 2009.

Liverpool One is expected to officially open on 1 October.