Middle East & Africa

Maia Capital Partners, via its Maia Debt Impact Fund I, has extended mezzanine debt financing to South African private equity fund Student Living Asset Management (SLAM) to support SLAM’s acquisition of a 51% stake in Academia, a 1,026-bed student residence in Stellenbosch.

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Student.com has partnered with AI answer engine Perplexity to offer students up to seven months of free access to Perplexity Pro, integrating AI tools with its global student accommodation platform.

Established as a leading real estate firm, 1159Realty has serviced over 2,500 clients and now introduces Dia’s Crest, Nigeria’s First Smart Student Housing Estate.

Machakos University is set to receive 3,000 new student hostel units following a partnership between the institution and the National Housing Corporation (NHC). The agreement was announced earlier this week as part of efforts to improve student accommodation and safety. 

As co-living continues to gain traction globally, The Myriad is setting a new benchmark in the Gulf region with a student housing model designed for a mobile, urban generation.

Advent Integrated Services Limited, a leading infrastructure development company committed to advancing social infrastructure in Nigeria, has signed a Concession Agreement with the Nasarawa State Government, the Nasarawa Investment and Development Agency (NASIDA), and Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), to deliver a 4,000-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) facility on the NSUK campus.

THE Infrastructure and Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has approved a US$14,4 million student accommodation project for the catholic University of Zimbabwe (CUZ), to be constructed at its Harare campus in Cranborne.

The project will increase the university’s student housing capacity through the development of a new 2,000-bed hostel at the main campus and two 1,000-bed hostels at the Chiromo and Kenyatta Medical campuses.

The federal government has announced the approval of N758 billion Federal Government Bond for the clearance of pension backlogs as well as a €30 million long-term concessional loan to address housing loans for students.