UK & Ireland

Global real estate manager Heitman has added a 120-bed development to its UK student housing portfolio. The $53bn (€54bn) asset manager said it has invested in the Hollis Building in Bath in a deal with London-based student housing developer Alumno.

Agent CBRE is guiding an overall price of €12 million for a portfolio comprising two sites with residential development potential within close proximity to the newly opened Grangegorman campus of Technological University Dublin (TUD).

Specialist UK value-add real estate investment and asset management firm – Tri7 – appoints Dan Green as Partner. The appointment comes as the company is at an exciting stage in its growth – with an investment capacity of £250m to spend on value-add real estate across the UK.

Early talks have looked at potentially building a similar number at the university's Carlow campus, formerly known as the Institute of Technology Carlow.

Plans have been announced for the redevelopment of the former Marks and Spencer store on Sauchiehall Street.

Tristan Capital Partners’ CCP 5 Fund along with its joint venture partner, Bricks Group, has acquired a 999-bed purpose-built student accommodation asset in the city of Liverpool from Aura Investors LLP for £110 million.

UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private Markets business (REPM) is forward funding a 367-bed, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) as part of its UK core real estate investment strategy. The manager said it has committed £64.

We are delighted to launch the Contract Notice for Staffordshire University's Student Village project today. We'll be seeking a partner to design, build, finance and operate c. 700 highly sustainable new student beds and c. 300 refurbished ones on its Stoke-on-Trent campus.

Developers Dominvs Group and Whitbread have published their ambitions for the Deansgate Locks Premier Inn site, which sits within Manchester City Council’s First Street Development Framework.

A proposal that could see the former Co-operative Funeralcare site on Church Road turned into student accommodation has been revealed. The new vision for the brownfield land would see up to 250 flats built in buildings up to six-storeys high, along with car and cycle parking spaces and landscaping.