US & Canada

Landmark Properties, in partnership with Liberty Mutual Investments and Peninsula Investments, acquired The Domain at Oxford, a 642-bed student housing community near the University of Mississippi, addressing growing demand amid record enrollment at Ole Miss.

Private equity investor HH Group has acquired Varsity on K, a 197-unit, 212-bed student housing community located in Washington, D.C., adjacent to George Washington University.

Alta Development, led by Henry Pino, is constructing SOMI Walk, a 16-story luxury student housing project in Coral Gables with 173 apartments and 675 beds, located 1.4 miles from the University of Miami campus to address immediate off-campus housing demand.

UCSB is developing two major student housing projects—San Benito and East Campus—that will add a combined 3,912 beds, enabling the university to meet its 2010 Long Range Development Plan goal of 5,000 new beds and guarantee two years of housing for incoming undergraduates.

McPherson College announced another expansion project Wednesday, this time focused on campus housing. Construction will begin next year on a new 90,000-square-foot apartment-style building.

The Valiant, an eight-story, 80,500-square-foot student housing development near UC Berkeley, opens ahead of the fall semester, offering 265 beds across 83 units with a mix of studios to four-bedroom apartments to address the campus’s low on-campus housing availability.

Landmark Properties, in partnership with Silverpeak Real Estate Partners and Peninsula Investments, completed The Mark Fort Collins, a 397-bed off-campus student housing community located 0.37 miles from Colorado State University, revitalizing a previously stalled project and delivering the first move-ins on August 1, 2026.

Article Student Living has acquired Signature Apartments, a 150-unit, 280-bed, Class A student housing community Lexington, Ky.

Fitch Ratings warns that recent U.S. F-1 visa policy changes, limiting new international students to a four-year stay and requiring extensions for longer programs, could reduce international enrollment and strain revenue for colleges heavily reliant on these students.

Landmark Properties and Peninsula Investments launched Narrative at Columbia, an 826-bed cottage-style student housing community in Columbia, South Carolina, marking the first new development of this type in the USC market in recent years.