UK & Ireland

Gamuda Land has acquired a site at 14 Marshgate Lane, Stratford, London, to develop a 321-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project valued at RM600 million, marking its first fully owned and self-managed PBSA venture in the UK, scheduled for completion in the 2028/29 academic year.

GMI Construction Group has reached a key milestone by topping out the £50m Avon Street student accommodation scheme in Bristol’s Temple Meads Quarter, marking progress on the 12-storey development with 447 bedrooms.

Scottish Ministers have approved Watkin Jones’ mixed residential scheme in Edinburgh’s Chesser, delivering 799 units, including 406 purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) beds.

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Australia’s largest pension fund has launched a new UK living sector platform with an initial £500m investment in rental homes.

Clark Contracts has completed a £16 million purpose-built student accommodation development, ‘The Pepper Mill,’ in Edinburgh for Danehurst, delivering 155 self-contained studios across five and six floors with extensive communal amenities.

Union Property Development secured a £22.6 million loan from Paragon Bank to convert a Category B listed office building at 250 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, into a 140-unit purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme.

The 2025 GSL Awards for the UK, Ireland, and Europe were announced at Horizon 22 in London, recognising excellence in student living based entirely on feedback from over 100,000 students, making it the only sector awards fully powered by real student experience data.

The University of Glasgow has submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council for a student accommodation development of 291 bedrooms on the Lilybank Gardens and Lilybank Car Park site, adjacent to its Gilmorehill Campus, with approval recommended at the 21 October 2025 planning committee meeting.

Barings funded the £30 million St Gabriel’s Court student accommodation project in Manchester, delivering 321 beds through a combination of refurbished heritage buildings and new-build elements near the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.