Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: David Montague, the former chief executive of housing association L&Q, has been appointed chair of later living developer Inspired Villages. Montague led housing association
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Brookfield Asset Management and Student Homes Management (SHM), a UK coliving investor with more than 2,000 beds under management, have acquired a 997-bed student housing portfolio.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Outpost Management has welcomed the first residents to its latest coliving scheme, Enclave: Acton, in west London.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrance: Insurance giant AXA has completed the sale of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), a major worldwide living sector investor, to BNP Paribas.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Yorkshire-based Assent, one of the country’s largest building control firms, has ceased trading, placing hundreds of Gateway 2 applications in limbo.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore: Singapore’s coliving sector has seen room inventory grow by 17 per cent between 2023 and 2025, according to new research from JLL.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Partners Group and Host Student Housing have completed a £100 million+ refinancing deal with Cerberus Capital Management.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: John Santora, CEO of WeWork, has warned the flex industry’s growth is outpacing its own capacity to respond to demand.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNetherlands: The Social Hub has unveiled a new-look marketing leadership team as it ramps up its European brand-building operation under chief marketing officer Trix van der Vleuten.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrance: A fund managed by TwentyTwo Real Estate has teamed up with investment firm Azora Capital to acquire Emeis, a senior independent living business.
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