UK & Ireland

Aviva Investors has agreed to buy a portfolio of student homes with 1,838 beds across the UK from Curlew Capital and CBRE Global Investment Partners for around £240 million, said two sources familiar with the situation.

Alumno Group has been granted planning permission for the construction of what the developers describe as “high-quality purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA)” on London Road at Jock’s Lodge following a successful appeal.

The largest of the two schemes, known as Devonshire Place, is for 940 student rooms and 200 on-site affordable homes at a site at 747-759 Old Kent Road. At present, demolition of existing buildings is pencilled in for February next year with basement construction starting in Autumn 2024.

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Huge plans have been put to Birmingham City Council to transform a former supermarket site into two new apartment blocks for more than 800 students.

The development arm of Bouygues UK (Linkcity), working in consortium with Equitix, will provide investment and develop plans for the build. The new accommodation will be positioned behind the Tate Modern art gallery, and will provide up to 2,000 new student rooms.

The £120m scheme, which will also include 19 affordable homes, will be built at Alfreton Road,  just a 13-minute walk from the Nottingham Trent University campus.

Charitable organisation and student accommodation centre ISH announces that it is set to develop a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in partnership with property development specialist HG Living at Kennington Lane in Vauxhall.

Fife Council's North East Fife planning committee unanimously approved the major plans from St Andrews University on Wednesday afternoon. The new student halls will be built on the site of Albany Park, the outdated 1970s accommodation at East Sands which was demolished in 2020, and they will provide a total of 703 bedrooms.

Manner, the London-based development group, has lodged plans to build a 36-storey, purpose-built student accommodation tower at the derelict Hotspur Press site in central Manchester.