UK & Ireland

The Student Property team of property consultancy Knight Frank has been instructed by Receivers to sell William Road, a consented PBSA site located in the Euston area of central London.

Developer Longstone (2) Limited has unveiled plans to conserve and redevelop the existing building into new student homes.

The third core of the 551-bed student accommodation complex at 225 Bath Street, Glasgow, has been completed by GRAHAM and its frame partner, Hampsey Ltd, in less than eight weeks.

Host have approval for our second PBSA development in Bristol. This latest scheme will deliver 204 student bedrooms, with a mix of cluster and studio flats plus internal and external social spaces, across four linked buildings on Freestone Road, Bristol.

Artisan Real Estate initially got the go ahead to knock down an office building to create a 248-bed hotel, before a second plan to provide 248 serviced apartments was also approved. Now, council planners have given the green light to a proposal which would see a 321 studio student accommodation complex constructed at the junction of St Vincent Street and Pitt Street.

Puma Property Finance has provided a debt facility of £72m to the JV between Olympian Homes and Housing Growth Partnership (HGP), to deliver a 790-bed PBSA scheme in Nottingham — its largest loan to date.

A developer has proposed building 376 student rooms and 52 affordable homes behind East Dulwich station. Named ‘The Sidings’, the development on Railway Rise, currently the site of a builder’s merchants yard, would also provide 700m2 of light industrial and affordable workspace.

HG Construction has been named as the main contractor on a new purpose-built student accommodation scheme for Studio Hive in Bristol. Silverthorne Lane Plot 6 in Bristol will comprise 706 student rooms, including cluster bedrooms and studio rooms.

A Leeds city centre office building could be converted into more than 100 student flats if newly submitted plans get the go-ahead. Malik Group Holdings has submitted an application to Leeds City Council for the change of use of Coverdale House on East Parade.

Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor, has bought B16, a 136-bed purpose built student accommodation scheme in Birmingham on behalf of its joint venture with Curation Capital, a London-based investment manager that invests in and manages student accommodation, co-living, private residential and flexible offices.