UK & Ireland

Glasgow City Council’s planning committee approved an application by real estate investor CA Ventures to partially demolish buildings on Queen Street and build a 14-storey PBSA block with 195 student beds.

Blacklight Capital Partners has secured a £33m senior debt facility from Allied Irish Bank (AIB) to refinance Limelight, its newly-developed PBSA asset in central Liverpool.

Purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) provider, the Kexgill Group, has completed a refinance deal with Aldermore Bank. The agreement was supported by Andrew Jackson Solicitors, their legal advice was provided by a multidisciplinary team of senior members of the practice.

Bowmer and Kirkland have been selected as the main contractor for a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Bristol. Canada Life Asset Management, in partnership with the University of West England, secured planning permission for the development.

McLaren Construction has appointed Vince Lydon as Managing Director to lead its new Construction Management and Specialist Projects division. He has joined from Sir Robert McAlpine to focus on large-scale real estate and public sector projects.

A loan has been provided by OakNorth to support the development of a purpose-built student accommodation development in Nottingham with more than 220 bedrooms and a range of co-working, dining and entertainment spaces.

Unite Students has received planning committee approval to build a 952-bed east London property, plus final planning approval to construct a 500-bed scheme in one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects in Bristol The Meridian Square development in Stratford, subject to full planning permission,

Bricks Group, development and management specialists in the student and co-living sectors, has secured £84.5m in funding from London Wall Lending to support the delivery of high-end Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) on a former Royal Mail site in Nottingham.

Sustainable purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) developer Verto has been granted planning permission for Halo Village – the world’s first zero-carbon PBSA community in Falmouth.

The site at 69-81 Commercial Road stands empty and unused as an office building, previously run by wealth management company Quilter. Developers Moda Living want to inject new life into the area by building the student accommodation.