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A planning application to convert Coverdale House on East Parade – a Leeds office building – into a PBSA schemes has been approved by Leeds City Council. Malik Group Holdings Ltd (MGHL) submitted the planning application earlier this year.

More student accommodation is planned for a former police station in Stoke-on-Trent. Planning permission has already been granted to transform Hanley Police Station, on Bethesda Street, into 161 units of student accommodation, but a new application has been submitted which proposes 218 units.

Residential for rent developer and manager Watkin Jones Group will regenerate the brownfield site by demolishing the existing former HMRC building on India Street and partially retaining the existing concrete frame.

Plans for a new 870-bedroom purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme at a location next to Belfast’s Grand Central Station transport hub have been unveiled by Elkstone.

IQ, the Blackstone-backed student living specialist, has the go-ahead to deliver a two-block scheme topping out at 12 storeys on the Hedley House site. Newcastle City Council’s planning committee resolved to grant permission for the project at its meeting on Friday.

The British Columbia government and the University of B.C. will partner to create housing for more than 1,500 students at the institution’s Vancouver campus, in the province’s largest ever student housing investment, Premier David Eby said Tuesday.

Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, announced the sale of Uptown Square, a 316-unit, 512-bed, purpose-built student housing asset located adjacent to Texas State University (TXST) in San Marcos, Texas.

Transformational leader in global student living – The Dot Group – has formed a strategic financing relationship with Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital platform, which provides minority equity and financing solutions to private capital managers.

Australia’s Plenary Group and Belgium’s Besix are the main investors – contributing 45% each – in the 23-year concession to design, build, finance and maintain 3,260 student rooms at Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University.

Investec Real Estate has provided a development loan for a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Stratford, East London, with a Gross Development Value (GDV) of £120m. The development was a joint venture between Watkin Jones plc and Housing Growth Partnership.