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Greystar is entering the Italian student housing market with the 400-bed Mascarella project in Bologna, addressing a significant gap between student accommodation demand and professionally managed supply in a city with 87,000 students, 63% of whom come from outside the area.

Seoul’s co-living supply has surged nearly 22-fold since 2017, driven by a rise in single-person households now comprising 40.5 percent of the city’s population, attracting major institutional investors like Morgan Stanley, CPP Investments, and GIC to develop and convert properties into co-living spaces across prime districts.

The Social Hub has submitted plans for a £200m, 580-bed mixed-use development with extensive amenities and public space on Edinburgh’s former Fountain Brewery site, supporting wider Fountainbridge regeneration.

The University of Glasgow has appointed Lovat’s Group to deliver hard facilities management across its student accommodation estate under an initial three-year contract. The engineering specialist will provide a predominantly self-delivered service backed by its 24/7 Service Desk and compliance team.

Principality Building Society is funding TVE Group’s conversion of vacant Cardiff offices into The Crest on Windsor, a purpose-built student accommodation scheme.

UPP ranked first among student accommodation providers in the 2026 GRESB assessment, scoring 98.4 and securing a four-star rating. The result places it in the top 25% of infrastructure asset owners worldwide, supported by continued reductions in energy and water use and further low-carbon investment.

Helical anticipates gateway 2 approval next month for a 429-bed student accommodation project in Southwark, funded by Places for London, triggering £5.3m cost reimbursement and a £10.2m profit payment.

Mapletree Investments has completed integrating its externally managed UK student housing asseets under its in-house operator, Student Castle, which manages close to 17,000 beds in the country.

The Assembly Place (TAP) is committing up to S$2.5 million to a S$300 million living-sector fund managed by ICHAM, targeting investments across Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region to expand its accommodation portfolio without direct property ownership.

Greystar has acquired a 1,200-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio across the UK, marking a significant expansion of its footprint in the student housing sector.