Australia & New Zealand

Brookfield plans to convert a residential project in the heart of the Melbourne CBD to student accommodation. Brookfield now wants to build a 39-storey student-accommodation building comprising 1013 lodging rooms and 1038 student beds, 425sq m of retail space and 2310sq m of communal space.

Cedar Pacific and CBRE Investment Management have launched a green loan partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a milestone in sustainable financing for the purpose-built student accommodation asset class.

Student accommodation giant Iglu expects to begin construction on its latest student digs—a 300-room mixed-use tower in Sydney’s south-east suburbs—within the next four months.

A new $80 million student accommodation hub has been approved in the Perth CBD, and will provide a further 835 people with a place to stay as the state’s housing crisis deepens.

Australia’s international education sector is facing significant disruption due to a sharp spike in student visa rejection rates, rescinded offers to some international students,...

Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus is set to boast a new student accommodation tower housing 459 new beds with Campus Living Villages onboard for the project.

The developer of a Perth purpose-built student accommodation tower wants to add nearly another 100 beds to its plans. The number of student beds would increase from 450 to 540, according to the latest modifications filed with the City of Perth Council.

Brookfield has anointed global contractor Multiplex to build the Canadian-based multinational’s first Australian student housing project. The project, a joint venture with Citiplan and Journal Student Living, is slated for Carlton, opposite the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus.

The Switch has won approval for amendments to a 15-storey facility at Macquarie Park—its first in Sydney and the fourth across Australia. Late last month Ryde City Council agreed Switch could add 27 rooms to the Rothelowman-designed building, for a total of 499 beds.

Following recent approval from the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the regulatory body for higher education providers in Australia, Kaplan Business School...