US & Canada

The modular housing was fabricated off-site in a temperature-controlled factory by NRB Modular Solutions and is being transported to the site. Each of the 52 modules will be set on the foundation footprint by crane and joined together like building blocks to make one integrated building. Once the modules are in place, the joints will be sealed and weatherproofed.

Muinzer and T2 Capital Management recently acquired Basham Rentals in West Lafayette, Indiana. The acquisition includes the entire Basham Rentals student-housing portfolio of 33 properties adjacent to Purdue University.

Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland is beginning construction this week on its third student residential building. The school says the building is needed to accommodate the growth of its student population.

While shipping container dormitories have been adopted as a solution to student accommodation shortages in countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, and...

Following the success and popularity of purpose-built student accommodations (PBSAs) in the U.S., U.K. and Europe to address the need for quick, safe and stylish housing for growing student populations, Canada is putting itself on the map in the sector with a brand-new PBSA in Guelph-one of the country's fastest growing cities.

Berkadia has been hired by OC Ventures to sell the Letterman, a 482-bed property at 410 South Morgan Street near the University of Illinois Chicago, Crain’s reported. The building is 112 years old and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A Chicago-based developer plans to build a 7-story, 181-unit apartment building at 2038 N. Walnut St., about a half mile northwest of Indiana University Memorial Stadium.

Continuing a decade-long boom, the University of California Board of Regents has given its San Diego campus permission to build a huge student center and a 2,400-bed housing complex that will jointly cost $1.1 billion.

Campus housing: Students can’t get enough of it and California public campuses can’t build dorm rooms fast enough. And yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed delaying by a year nearly $1.2 billion in loans and grants that would build housing for thousands of students at affordable rates — money the state promised campuses in last year’s state budget.

Following years of litigation, design changes and multiple rounds of approvals from the governing board of the University of California, UC Santa Cruz can now move forward with construction of a controversial student housing project as soon as early 2024.