US & Canada

JLL advised Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) and the Purdue Fort Wayne Foundation on the feasibility and strategy for finding a private-sector partner to develop a new 600-bed student housing project on the PFW’s North Campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Balfour Beatty has been selected to deliver on student housing projects in Florida with a combined value of £129m. The individual projects are Rollins College East End Neighbourhood, Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) 2026 Campus Student Housing project, and Nova Southeastern University’s dining renovation.

UC Berkeley is set to transform its student housing landscape with the proposed Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing project, a 23-story tower southwest of campus meant to address an urgent need for on-campus accommodations.

There will be 168 new affordable student apartments in downtown Montreal – with the construction of Le Méridien. And the very first cohort of tenants is scheduled to move in for the start of the 2026 school year.

Forum Asset Management has launched a new project at 307 Sherbourne Street in Toronto to address the critical demand for student housing and affordable accommodations in the area.

JLL Capital Markets secured $36 million in acquisition financing for Hawkins Way Capital to acquire Varsity Berkeley, a 79-unit, 308-bed student housing property near the University of California at Berkeley campus that changed hands for $46.3 million.

The Chicago-based student housing developer, which has a portfolio of more than 38,000 student housing beds and 3,000 single-family build-to-rent units, has a pipeline of over 43,000 beds in progress — putting it on track to more than double its existing holdings, according to a press release shared with Multifamily Dive.

The Preiss Company proudly announces the acquisition and rebranding of Elevate 231, now known as The Collective at Columbia. This premier, cottage-style community, located in Columbia, Missouri, serves students attending the University of Missouri and features 318 units with 972 beds.

California State University, Fullerton has broken ground on Sequoia, a $160 million student housing project located on the university’s campus.

LOS ANGELES, /PRNewswire/ -- Muinzer, a leading private equity firm specializing in student housing, today announced the off-market acquisition of Samford Square near Auburn University. Samford Square consists of 752 student housing beds that are 100% leased for the August 2024 school year.