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With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the targets highlighted in the university’s 2010 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).

Proposals to add 340 rooms at the Hathersage Road student complex in Manchester are in the works.  Empiric Student Property, which acquired Victoria Point site from MCR Property Group for just shy of £30m in 2016, has assembled a project team to work up plans for the scheme.

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for a 941-bed-space student accommodation scheme on the Naas Road. The application from developer Malclose Ltd comprised a part 15-storey block and a part 11-storey block, to deliver 871 standard rooms, 47 accessible studio rooms and 23 studios.

abrdn has invested £110m on behalf of Phoenix and £13m on behalf of ILID, its Index-Linked Infrastructure Debt Fund, in West Slope Residencies Finance Limited - a partnership between the University of Sussex and Balfour Beatty Investments.

Plans have been approved for a 31-storey student accommodation and build-to-rent development at Queen’s Hospital Close in Birmingham. The redevelopment and refurbishment of Queen’s Hospital listed buildings, alongside new building works, will bring forward 759 student bed spaces and 189 apartments for private rent.

Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus is set to boast a new student accommodation tower housing 459 new beds with Campus Living Villages onboard for the project.

A finales de 2024, el operador internacional y gestor de residencias de estudiantes y alojamientos flexibles planea gestionar cuatro centros con 1.803 camas en España.

The developer of a Perth purpose-built student accommodation tower wants to add nearly another 100 beds to its plans. The number of student beds would increase from 450 to 540, according to the latest modifications filed with the City of Perth Council.

Dominus and Cheyne Capital have completed two senior loans totalling around £400m to provide development finance for two of Dominus’ PBSA developments in the City of London.

Rael Development Corp. has started construction on Charme on Georgia Ave., a 250-unit, 636-bed student housing project in Statesboro, Ga., according to Grice Connect. Scheduled to come online next fall, the $61 million development will serve the Georgia Southern University.