US & Canada

Walker & Dunlop, Inc. has funded a new $380,000,000 credit facility for the refinance of 11 student housing properties on behalf of a joint venture lead by The Scion Group LLC ("Scion"). Scion is the largest owner/operator of off-campus student housing communities globally with over 80,000 beds in their portfolio.

A private student-housing developer purchased the 72-room hotel for $13.3 million last week in a deal two years in the making, hotel broker NewGen Advisory tells Axios Phoenix. The 1.4-acre lot will be revamped into a "state of the art" rental property with 479 bedrooms.

HH Fund, a national student housing owner and operator, has received $64.6 million to refinance Nine East 33rd, a 568-bed student housing property near Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore.

CBRE has brokered the sale of Social 28, a 592-bed student housing property located across the street from the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.

Canada’s decision to implement a two-year cap on the number of new international students issued with a study visa has raised concern that the...

Ontario, the most populous province in Canada and home to half the country’s foreign students, will require all colleges and universities to guarantee housing is available for incoming cohorts.

JLL Capital Markets announced that it closed the sale of Oso Verde, a 103-unit / 297-bed student housing community located near Baylor University in Waco, Texas. JLL worked on behalf of the seller, Bullseye Development, and Versity Invest, LLC, who acquired the asset.

Duke University paid the top price on a per-unit basis for a multifamily property in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, market since 2022 with its purchase of the Blue Light apartment building near the school’s campus.

Hawkins Way Capital, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm that manages equity funds for family offices and institutional investors, announced it has obtained approval from the Boston Planning and Development Agency to convert the Sheraton Boston Hotel's South tower into student housing.

Cardinal Group, a real estate company based in Colorado, has purchased the student housing community Midtown Stillwater, located at 801 W 4th Avenue in Stillwater, Oklahoma, for an undisclosed price.