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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain: BentallGreenOak (BGO) and Stoneweg have launched Welco Living, a new flexible accommodation brand backed by a €500 million investment programme aimed at building a major flex living platform across Spain.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: A 300-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Kingston has been put up for sale, offering investors exposure to one of London’s strongest student housing markets.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteItaly: Invel Real Estate has entered the Italian purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector with an €18 million investment in two developments in Milan and Padua.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Ridgeback Group have acquired Metra Living, the private rented sector (PRS) business of London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q), in a deal worth £1.045 billion.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Plans have been unveiled for a 570-bed PBSA scheme on the former Mamas & Papas site at West Quay Retail Park in Southampton.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJapan: Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has launched a $1.2 billion bid to acquire Japanese student housing company J.S.B., marking the private equity firm’s first take-private deal in Japan since opening its Tokyo office in 2025.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Student housing operator The Scion Group has agreed to acquire Atlanta-based operator Student Quarters, adding nearly 13,000 beds and around $1.5 billion in student housing assets under management to its portfolio.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Fyma and GAA Living partner to bring behavioural data insights to build-to-rent sector.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore: Singapore-based Mapletree Investments is winding down its $1.3 billion (£1.02 billion) student accommodation fund after it fell well short of performance targets.
Reading Time: 12 minutesUK: Backlogs in asylum processing and chronic housing shortages have pushed hotels to the centre of the UK’s asylum accommodation system. With a 2029 deadline in place, the hospitality industry questions how realistic this transition is.
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