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LaSalle Investment Management and Urbania, an investment and asset management company with a €1.1bn portfolio under management, have announced their joint venture partnership to develop a portfolio of living assets in Spain.

CBRE Investment Management has acquired a newly developed student housing campus in Milan, Italy, on behalf of a separate account client. Financial details of the off-market deal were kept confidential.

Collegiate UK, a Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) provider, has linked with Howden Insurance (formerly Endsleigh) and Your Guarantor.

The University of Guelph will be adding 2,500 new beds as students continue to struggle to find a place to live.

HS Optimus Holdings Limited (SG:504) has released an update. HS Optimus Holdings Limited has submitted a planning permit application to transform its freehold land in Carlton, Victoria, into a purpose-built student accommodation.

Inland Real Estate Acquisitions has purchased Sawyer on Lincoln, a 277-unit, 673-bed student housing community in Columbia, S.C., serving the University of South Carolina.

Unite Students has purchased a Glasgow site to build a new 934-bed property. The £126m city centre development at Central Quay is set to open ahead of the 2027/28 academic year.

GMI Construction Group and developer Olympian Homes have marked the topping out of Rialto House, a £50m purpose-built student accommodation scheme on the site of York’s former Rialto Cinema and Mecca bingo hall.

Vertically integrated student accommodation platform – Nido Living – has appointed Giuseppe Zafferri as its Head of Italy.  Giuseppe, who joins Nido Living from CA Ventures, carries over 18 years of experience in Italian real estate investment and acquisitions.

The University of Rhode Island is moving forward with a plan to construct additional housing on the Kingston Campus that will provide more than 1,100 additional beds for undergraduate and graduate students at the state’s flagship research university.