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Craig Carracher and Stephen Gaitanos co-founded Scape Australia, now the nation’s largest purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) provider, managing around 20,000 apartments across 40 properties with a portfolio valued at $20 billion and plans to expand to 100,000 beds by 2030/32.

St Katherine Investment Group has listed the fully stabilised Urba-Life Portfolio in Southampton for over £25 million, comprising three freehold student accommodation schemes with 220 studios and six commercial units, all fully let for the 2025/26 academic year.

Commerz Real has acquired the “One Sevilla” student housing complex in the capital of Andalusia in southern Spain for its Commerz Real Institutional Smart Living Europe Fund.

Raintree Partners sold the Axiom Westwood portfolio, comprising 153 student-focused apartments across four buildings near UCLA, for $62.6 million. Institutional Property Advisors, part of Marcus & Millichap, brokered the deal with a private investor buyer, marking Westwood’s largest unit sale since 2020.

A student accommodation development featuring more than 900 bedspaces in a South West spa city looks set to move forward. The University of Bath is behind the scheme earmarked for the Eastern Sports Field, Sports Training Village, in the eastern part of its campus.

Cedar Pacific has appointed Seyda Andrews as Legal & Compliance Manager to support its growth in Build to Rent and purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sectors, focusing on strengthening legal frameworks and governance across its funds and assets.

Philadelphia student-housing powerhouse Campus Apartments is trying to raise as much as $400 million in fresh capital, marketing a new private-equity vehicle aimed at funding development and acquisition projects around the country, CEO David Adelman said.

Florida State University announced a $374 million Northwest Campus Project to add 1,200 new student beds, a 765-seat dining hall, and nearly 1,000 parking spaces, aiming to expand its housing capacity to over 8,000 beds by 2030.

Suffolk Construction will manage a $1.2 billion student housing expansion at California Polytechnic State University, adding 3,600 new beds and renovating 1,200 existing beds across two buildings opening in 2026 and 2027 in San Luis Obispo.

Interstate Equities Corp. acquired a two-property apartment portfolio in Davis, California, for $42.8 million, including Pepperwood Apartments and Temescal Apartments, totalling 141 units and 357 beds.