US & Canada

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.

Every September, the same scene plays out across campuses and cities: cars queue outside receptions, trolleys appear and disappear through doorways, and students carry...

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it has arranged $555,600,000 in financing for a portfolio of 14 student housing properties totaling 4,295 units and 10,454 beds across nine states.

Vancouver city council has set aside its planners’ advice and approved, in principle, the Goh Ballet’s plan for a 25-storey student housing tower on Main Street.