Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate investment, development and operating company, has acquired eight PBSA assets totalling 3,460 beds.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAround £830 million was invested in the UK PBSA market in Q2 2025, according to a new report by global property consultancy Knight Frank.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Real estate agent Avison Young has launched a residential site opportunity in Leeds city centre, bringing to market a site on Belgrave Street with potential for built-to-rent (BTR), co-living, or student accommodation.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Groundworks have begun on the £200 million Crown Square project in central Middlesbrough, which will transform a former brownfield site in Gresham, into build-to-rent (BTR) homes, student accommodation, and a Fairfield by Marriott hotel.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Developer Greystar has opened bookings for Chapter London Bridge, a purpose-built sutendt accommodation (PBSA) development set to welcome its first residents for the 2025/26 academic year.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Elite UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) has received planning approval to convert a freehold property in Dundee, Scotland, into a 168-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) facility.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWordwide: Resident satisfaction in student accommodations is declining, according to software provider StarRez’s “2025 State of the Student Housing Industry Report”.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Developers NCO (Seven) Limited and Nixon Homes Limited have submitted a full planning application to Exeter City Council for a mixed student accommodation and co-living scheme on the site of the former police station and magistrates court on Heavitree Road.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The UK government has confirmed deadlines for the removal of unsafe cladding under a new Remediation Bill, alongside a £1 billion investment in social housing remediation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: Australian finance group Macquarie will acquire two European student housing platforms managing over 12,000 beds, entering the European student accommodation market.
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