The Netherlands: A PBSA Market at a Crossroads
The Netherlands occupies a distinctive position in European higher education. It is simultaneously one of the continent’s most internationally oriented systems and one of...
No Place Like Home? New report reveals the gaps in the accommodation experience for...
A new joint report published by Global Student Living and the Unite Foundation draws on data from nearly 45,000 students to examine how care-experienced...
Inbound Insight: Nepal
In this Inbound Insight series article, we revisit the Nepalese outbound student market - one of the world's fastest-growing and most dynamic. Since our...
Chainels: Creating the connecting layer that brings your tech together
Across Europe, student accommodation operators are grappling with a familiar challenge: rising expectations, shrinking margins, and the growing complexity of running mixed‑use, digitally enabled...
Milan’s Olympic Village to become student housing
When the final athletes depart Milan’s 2026 Winter Olympic Village, the site will begin one of the fastest legacy transformations in Olympic history. In...
A Tale of Three Datasets: what the latest visa, enrolment and application figures mean...
Late January/February has brought a triple dose of crucial data for those tracking international student flows into the UK. HESA released headline enrolment figures...
Student Voices on the Environmental Impact of Accommodation
Over the past few years, the environmental impact of accommodation has become increasingly important to students, particularly in shaping perceptions of value for money....
Latest student accommodation data reveals shifting satisfaction and growing student wellbeing concerns
As we complete the GSL Index Autumn wave (2025 Q4), the data highlight evolving dynamics in the student accommodation sector, with notable shifts in...
German PBSA: From Full Occupancy to Institutional-Grade Performance
An operator’s perspective from Enis Bayik, Managing Director at Home & Co, on what institutional investors now expect from PBSA in Germany.
Germany’s PBSA market...
Why UK PBSA operators face a tougher 2026 despite student visa growth
On the surface, 2025 was a record-breaking year for the UK Higher Education sector. Home Office data for the full calendar year shows that...












