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The real estate developer AM is constructing two residential towers next to the ‘Social Hub’. The ‘Student Hotel’, part of Lightyards built in Eindhoven in 2017, was later renamed ‘Social Hub’.  The 242 apartments will be divided over two residential towers.

Nido Living continues to strengthen its presence in Spain with the opening of its third purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) residence in Madrid, Nido Plaza Castilla, scheduled to open on 4 January 2025.

JLL has been appointed as adviser on the sale of Fusion Group’s purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio. Four prime assets located in Birmingham (622 beds), Loughborough (541 beds), Glasgow (619 beds), and Cardiff (706 beds), make up the portfolio. 

A proposed student housing redevelopment may be built on a stretch of West Tennessee Street near the city's Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas More. How likely the project is to ever being built remains to be seen.

Construction of Student Housing West rises near the intersection of Coolidge and Hagar drives at UC Santa Cruz. According to the university, the project will provide housing for about 3,000 students at two sites, which will be constructed in two phases.

More student housing is coming to Guelph, Ont. Plans are underway for a new student residence at the University of Guelph built specifically for first-year students.

A former office block in South London could be turned into a 17-storey purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) building with over 300 student rooms. The plans were put forward recently to Greenwich Council by the MDPL Group.

New plans for 218 units of student accommodation inside a former police station in Stoke-on-Trent have been approved. Planning permission had already been secured to transform Hanley Police Station into 161 units of student accommodation, but plans were submitted in August which proposed 218 units.

Growthpoint-backed Thrive Student Living is investing R800 million in its largest student accommodation development yet, located adjacent to the main entrance to the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Howard College Campus.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially commissioned the state-of-the-art Bulawayo Students Accommodation City Complex, a landmark project in Matsheumhlope suburb valued at US$18.5 million.