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A planning application has been submitted to repurpose one of Waterford's most well-known nightclub buildings into student accommodation. The Causeway Group has sought permission to turn Sinnott's bar and nightclub in Waterford into student accommodation.

Plans have been unveiled for a flagship student living project in Coventry which will provide almost 800 units across two buildings. Balfour Beatty Investments' proposals are earmarked for 8 Torwood Close in Westwood Heath.

GMH Capital Partners LP and AGC Equity Partners have sold Everly on the Loop, a 209-unit, 428-bed student housing community in St. Louis, Mo., adjacent to Washington University. R5 acquired the asset and assumed a $49.4 million acquisition loan provided by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

NCCD-College Station Properties LLC failed to make a complete payment due July 1 for bonds issued to build the complex near the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, according to a regulatory filing.

LV Collective is looking at building two residential towers that will likely become student housing. The Austin Business Journal reports the company has acquired three lots near campus where plans are suggesting nearly identical 38-40 story buildings.

The Kingdom of Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund is planning to invest in UK student housing assets through a partnership with investment manager Investcorp.

A prominent Dundee office building could be partially transformed into student accommodation under plans submitted to the city council. An application has been lodged to partially convert Caledonian House at Greenmarket, near the city’s waterfront, into 100 student apartments.

PLANNING permission has been granted by Limerick City and County Council for a significant student accommodation complex in the city centre.

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Many office buildings sit mostly empty. Once-soaring apartment-rent growth has slowed and is falling in some places. But housing geared to college students at popular schools is a rare bright spot in the beleaguered commercial real-estate business. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.