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61% of UK-based university students, who were recently surveyed, didn’t check whether their current accommodation was part of any accreditation schemes before booking. Despite over half (52%) saying that having student accommodation accreditation was important to them.

The Social Hub has made its debut in Portugal with the grand opening of its first venue in Porto, a €60 million investment that marks a significant step in the company’s European expansion.

First proposed more than a decade ago, the developer behind a student housing project near the University of Guelph is in the final public stages of the approval process.

Cordatus Real Estate and 3DReid Architects are seeking change of use approval for 33 Bothwell Street following a declining occupancy rate.

A company that provides student accommodation has revealed their plans to open a ‘brand-new, luxury’ block on Ilkeston Road in time for the next academic year.

Student accommodation provider, true student, is developing a 494-bed scheme on the site of a former BMW car garage in Broad Lane, Sheffield. The building, called true Sheffield, will house students from both the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

Elva Ventures has been launched by John Diedrich – former Chief Investment Officer at CA Ventures. It is a new European platform dedicated to purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and already has a £200m development pipeline.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, together with local authority leaders and industry partners, attended MIPIM in Cannes, France to seek investment to help build thousands of more affordable homes for Londoners and to unlock new infrastructure and jobs in the capital.

BWE, a national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, announced that it has secured a $23,500,000 loan to finance the acquisition and substantial improvement of The Edge, a 173-unit, 553-bed student housing community near the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

CUPERTINO, CA — Hundreds of students in one community college district may not have to worry about housing insecurity as it builds out affordable off-campus apartments — a first of its kind project in Santa Clara County.