All Student accommodation articles – Page 8
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Insight
Student housing needs more support
Student housing has been one of the most resilient residential property classes, so investors in this sector are well placed amid the turmoil of the wider market. However, as highlighted by your piece ‘Easing the university squeeze’, there are challenges ahead that need to be addressed.
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News
Core demand outstrips supply of student accommodation
Core demand from first-year students living away from home, plus second- and third-year international students and international postgraduates, has begun to outstrip the supply of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in the 30 largest UK locations by student numbers outside London, data from StuRents shows, with huge variation by location.
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News
Apache sells last PBSA asset for over £30m
Singaporean investor snaps up Southampton block as Apache focuses on BTR
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News
Student Accommodation Conference: ESG must be a ‘primary consideration’ for PBSA market
ESG is “no longer the thing you stick on the last slide of a presentation”, and PBSA market investors must consider ESG requirements on new developments, according to Andrew Smith, head of student accommodation at Cushman & Wakefield.
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Insight
PBSA: The strength of the sector in light of new cost of living challenges
The PBSA sector faced its challenges throughout the pandemic, but admission levels this year have shown that more 18-year olds than ever are looking to go to university.
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Videos
PBSA Sector still on upward trajectory
CRM chief executive officer Richard Skeels explains why he believes the purpose built student accommodation sector has a strong future, despite current market challenges and the cost of living crisis.
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Insight
Why the PBSA sector is still on an upward trajectory
CRM Students chief executive officer Richard Skeels explains why he believes the purpose-built student accommodation sector has a strong future, despite current market challenges and the cost-of-living crisis.
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Markets
Easing the university squeeze
As 2.39 students compete for each available bed, how can the sector help? Andy Hillier reports.
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Online
A rollercoaster year for the UK student housing market
At the start of 2022, the Bank of England base rate was 0.25%, inflation stood at just 5.5% and Matt Hancock was merely a former health secretary in the wilderness of the back benches.
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News
Student accommodation under pressure as students struggle to pay rents
Rent guarantor Housing Hand has warned unparalleled demand for university places and a lack suitable homes are creating pressure on the student accommodation market, with students struggling to pay rents and more of them failing referencing.
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News
CMA expresses concerns over GIC and Greystar’s £3.3bn Student Roost acquisition
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has expressed concerns over GIC and Greystar’s £3.3bn acquisition of PBSA provider Student Roost, warning the deal could hurt students in one of the UK’s biggest cities.
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News
Barnard Marcus releases 120-lot catalogue for November auction
Three flats in the Southside Quarter development in Battersea, south-west London, have been listed with a guide price of £1.9m in Barnard Marcus’s latest major auction on 16 November.
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Online
Empiric hits record student occupancy but pauses growth
Empiric Student Property achieved record high occupancy of 98% during the current academic year, but said it had “largely paused” its development and acquisition pipeline due to current market volatility.
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News
Southern Grove secures permission for £75m student scheme in Hackney
London-based developer Southern Grove has secured permission for a £75m mixed-use student accommodation scheme in Hackney Wick, east London.
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Insight
We should all be in this together
Following a period of fresh political headwinds, and resulting new layers of uncertainty spurring market turbulence, the phrase ‘we are all in this together’ has never felt more real to many across the property sector as it does today.
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Online
Unite enters BTR market with East London acquisition
Unite Students has entered the build-to-rent market with the acquisition of a 178-unit scheme in Stratford, East London for £71m.
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Insight
Working together for better digs
The reign of her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, saw enormous change in all areas of society, but perhaps none more so than in higher education.
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Online
Watkin Jones profit to be below forecasts despite strong second half performance
Watkin Jones has told investors that it delivered “a strong operational performance” in the second half of the year in an end of year trading update, but deal delays led to a warning that profit would be below market expectations.
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News
Host lands management deal for two Curlew Capital PBSA sites
Host Student Housing (Host), part of Irish property developer O’Flynn Group, has taken over management of two purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sites in Bath and London owned by developer and investor Curlew Capital.
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News
Regal London makes a move into the capital’s PBSA market
Regal’s Chris Gass and Harris Associates’ Jamie Harris discuss plans for the 349-bed development in Wembley.