UK & Ireland

The integration of Smart Studios – which the Nido Student platform has rebranded – marks the next phase of Round Hill Capital’s strategy for the PBSA scheme, following its acquisition of the business last year.

It now plans to develop a 444-room student accommodation scheme at the Harper Road and Borough High Street. It is the second developer in a week to switch plans for private flats over to student rooms in the Capital.

Singapore-based private equity real estate firm Q Investment Partners (QIP) announced that it has partnered with property group Soilbuild to launch a £200 million ($246 million) student housing platform in the UK.

University College Dublin (UCD) is to begin talks with landlords to rent accommodation for students who will be unable to get places in university-owned accommodation from next September.

Plans have come forward for the development of a block of student accommodation on the site of a former Leeds nightclub. Breslin Properties Ltd is set to present pre-application proposals for a site on York Street to Leeds City Council's City Plans Panel later today (23 March 2023).

Regal London acquires Devonshire Place, a 0.7-hectare site to deliver a new purpose-built student accommodation scheme. The site is located at 747-759 Old Kent Road and 765-775 Old Kent Road – opposite the proposed new Bakerloo Line station on Old Kent Road in the London Borough of Southwark.

The properties provide a total of 1,460 beds to students in London, Lincoln, Newcastle, Nottingham, and Sheffield, and are managed by GSA’s operating partner, Yugo.

Provider of real estate development finance – Maslow Capital – provides a £114m development facility to Union Property Development to support the delivery of their purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Central London.

Plans to build a student accommodation block on an unused part of a Stoke Gifford retail park have been revealed by Canada Life Asset Management, in partnership with the University of the West of England (UWE).

Located on Westfield Road in the Golgie-Dalry area of Edinburgh, west of the City Centre, the proposed development by Host will bring an unused site, currently occupied by an office/ car showroom, back to life in the form of high quality student accommodation, which will support the regeneration of wider area.