Europe

The lack of affordable housing for students in Italy was under the spotlight for much of 2023, with students in major cities across Italy...

The expanded Polish team will be led by Jacek Kaluzny, director and head of operational capital markets Poland. Kaluzny has 15 years of experience in the living sectors and specialises in real estate advisory, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.

Camplus is an operator specialising in student housing and they are participating in a new pan-European joint venture with Partners Groups, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and Dea Capital Real Estate.

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing's open-ended core fund is in exclusivity to buy two new student housing blocks in Barcelona. According to sources at Mipim, MSREI's Prime Property Fund Europe is investing at a yield of approximately 4.75%, in a circa €150 mln transaction. The vendor is Vita Living.

As the student housing crisis continues worldwide and the shortcomings of traditional approaches to aged care are under the spotlight, thanks to the COVID-19...

Amro Partners and Falco Capital have financed their joint student housing project in Alicante with a €17.5 mln three-year development loan from Fiera Real Estate. With this loan, global asset management firm Fiera is making its debut into the Iberian market via the Article 8-compliant Fiera Real Estate European Debt Fund.

US property firm Greystar expects to spend more than 1.4 billion euros ($1.53 billion) on European real estate this year as it looks to seize on recent price falls in France and Germany, its executive director told Reuters on Tuesday.

The investment comes from Italy's sovereign wealth fund, CDP, through its National Fund for Sustainable Housing (FNAS). FNAS promotes sustainable and socially impactful real estate projects valued up to €1 bn.

Two European funds managed by global real estate firm Hines have made student housing investments in France that will create around 1,300 new beds.

Signal Capital Partners, Griffin Capital Partners and Echo Investment have launched a student housing platform in Poland, aiming to develop 5,000 beds over the next three to five years.