Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany/Austria: Serviced apartment and student housing operator smartments has promoted Martin Troppa to director of commercial, a newly-created role for the company.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: The 195-room Mama Shelter London Shoreditch hotel has permanently closed, with coliving operator ARK rebranding the site.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Private equity real estate investment firm Valpre Capital, together with Revelate Capital and a UBS-managed fund, have completed the sale of build-to-rent (BTR) development 18 Newmarket Square in Dublin.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Development finance lender Atelier has surpassed £1 billion of gross lending having funded projects across residential, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and the care sectors over the past seven years.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Private equity investment firm Limestone Capital has invested in coliving platform Outsite to scale the brand globally.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Analysis from the British Property Federation (BPF) shows that construction starts of build-to-rent (BTR) fell by 80 per cent in London last year, with work starting on 613 units.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The chair of the Building Safety Regulator, Andy Roe, has claimed that Gateway 2 approval now sits closer to its 12 week aim.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSingapore: Coliving operator The Assembly Place (TAP) has started trading on the Catalist Board of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST) following the company’s IPO which was 5.2 times subscribed.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrance/Spain/Italy: Private investment firm Ardian and living platform Rockfield have signed three transactions across Europe, adding 1,500 beds to its purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Canada Life Asset Management has completed a £129 million fixed-rate loan for Cortland to refinance debt on a build-to-rent (BTR) scheme near Manchester.
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