US & Canada

Texas State University students will soon have a new place to call home after the university purchased $151 million in apartment complexes. The downtown San Marcos apartments were purchased as a way to alleviate housing availability issues.

Florida A&M’s 700-bed student housing project is continuing to move forward. The university announced on Tuesday they signed a $97.5 million 30-year federal loan to assist with financing the housing project, which was approved in November.

Greystar was selected, along with the development firm’s nonprofit partner, Provident Resources Group, by the University of Washington’s Board of Regents to lease four University-owned student housing properties.

The recent announcement by the Canadian government to impose a cap on international student visas has brought the issue of Canada’s student housing shortage under...

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.