UK & Ireland

Acquiring the site in 2022 and following the submission of a planning application in February 2024, Regal London’s plans for the redevelopment of 100 Chalk Farm Road into a new PBSA scheme in Camden, London is recommended for approval.

Re:shape has appointed Daniel Lutterdt as Head of Investment. He joins from Heitman, bringing extensive experience in private equity and banking to his new role.

Investment firms Elkstone and Harrison Street are set to develop student accommodation with 345 beds on Queen Street in Galway city.

Birmingham-based property investor and asset manager Mercia Real Estate has secured a £32.5m funding package from Paragon Bank’s Development Finance division to support the first phase of its 411-bedroom Purpose Built Student Accommodation scheme in Edgbaston.

Blackstone has announced they have successfully closed on the refinancing of one of the major credit facilities of iQ Student Accommodation. The refinancing is part of the normal course of business ahead of the current facility reaching maturity in May 2025.

Plans for 190 new student rooms in Greenwich have been submitted, replacing the previous scheme to build flats on the site. Greenwich council has received an application to build the student digs in Woolwich Road, 35 per cent of which would be classed as ‘affordable’.

Student Roost has partnered with student accommodation management software creators – Kinetic – to become the first purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) provider to launch the StudentLife resident wellbeing platform.

The site of a former nightclub in Leeds could be redeveloped as student accommodation if newly submitted plans get the green light. Mornington Ltd has submitted a full planning application to Leeds City Council for a site at the junction of York Street and Brick Street, adjacent to the viaduct.

Ireland’s largest private student landlord accused the Government of taking a U-turn on previous housing policies by banning student housing groups from offering 51-week-only leases at their properties in the Republic.

Noise has always been a part of life in student accommodation, and something we often write off as being simply part of the student...