Australia & New Zealand

Scape has submitted plans for a 45-storey student accommodation tower at 229-235 Southwark Bridge Road in Elephant and Castle, designed by Morris + Company to deliver 798 units and 851 bed spaces, expanding the area’s emerging high-rise cluster.

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Multiplex completed Journal Student Living’s Market Way PBSA project at 100 Franklin Street, Melbourne, ahead of schedule, delivering 715 rooms with 1,010 beds and extensive communal amenities across 40 levels in the city’s Queen Victoria Markets precinct.

A new high-density flexible accommodation project is being proposed for South Brisbane, with Renovo Solutions seeking approval for a 29-storey mixed-use development at 37 Cordelia Street designed by Australian architecture practice FK.

RMIT University and Scape by The Living Company are investing over $270 million in the State Library Exchange, a mixed-use development above Melbourne’s State Library Station that will combine nine levels of university learning facilities with 46 levels of student accommodation, set to open from 2029.

Fender Katsalidis has submitted a development application for a 29-storey student accommodation tower at 37 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, featuring 350 student and co-living rooms across Levels 5 to 28 within the Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct.

TOGA is seeking approval for a $553m Five Dock precinct that would deliver 866 homes, including BTR and co-living, alongside affordable housing, retail, public space and transport-linked upgrades near Sydney Metro West.

The Living Co acquired the Boston University Sydney Academic Centre (BUSAC) in Chippendale for $72.5 million, securing a strategically located 165-bed student accommodation facility that has served Boston University’s Study Abroad Program since 2011.

Freecity has begun construction on its second purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project, an $80 million, 117-unit, eight-storey development at Rockdale, Sydney, scheduled for completion in mid-2027 and designed by COX Architecture using volumetric modular construction (VMC).

Griffith University has opened a new student accommodation tower at its Gold Coast campus, adding 460 beds and increasing on-campus housing capacity to nearly 1,000 beds, addressing local student housing demand.