UK & Ireland

Graham Construction will deliver the Clydesdale & Birks project, which ranks as the largest Passivhaus scheme in student accommodation sector. The firm will build over 1,700 new student rooms and refurbish 300 existing bedrooms at Birks Grange.

The ongoing shortage of supply in the student accommodation market is expected to generate strong interest in the sale of a fully-let investment in the heart of Galway city.

AVISON Young is marketing an Edinburgh site that has been tipped to help address a ‘chronic shortage’ of student accommodation in Scotland’s capital.

Sodexo has extended its award-winning partnership with Northumbria University for a further two years. The facilities management contract extension means Sodexo will continue to manage the Trinity Square and City Campus student accommodation.

The major redevelopment, which has been backed by city planners, will mean that the former cattle sheds behind the Corn Exchange torn down and replaced with a mix of flats, affordable homes and purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) if the proposals are approved by councillors next week.

Aldermore has provided loans totalling £20.9m to Study Inn Group for a 400 room, two phase student accommodation development, in the heart of Leeds city centre.

Developer Southern Grove has secured permission to create a £75million mixed-use student accommodation scheme that will complete the transformation of Hackney Wick into one of the fastest growing educational and cultural centres in London.

Student accommodation group, Unite Students, has invested £65m in the refurbishment of three of its Manchester properties. Work on Parkway Gate, Kincardine Court and New Medlock House was completed in time for the start of the 2022/23 academic year.

A new student accommodation scheme in central Leeds has been sold to Q Investment Partners (QIP), a Singapore-headquartered private equity real estate firm, in a deal worth about £15m. The 88 studio apartments with associated amenities, are being built at 26-34 Merrion Street.

The site of a former mental health hospital in York is set to become home to student accommodation featuring 210 rooms, in a largely ‘car-free’ development. York St John University has submitted plans to build three storey blocks of flats for their students at Peppermill Court, Ramsay Close.