Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Firma Partners has provided a loan to DPK Group for the conversion of the Royal Albert Dock office complex in east London into a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Housing association Sanctuary is continuing to look at selling part of its student housing portfolio as part of a review of its property business, according to its latest audited accounts.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Operational Real Estate Summit (OpRE26), held on June 23 at the Pullman London St Pancras brought together a highly specialised audience of senior decision-makers, including institutional investors, property owners, financiers, operators, lenders, and expert advisers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Architect Sheppard Robson has submitted plans for a 29-storey PBSA tower and a 14-storey Premier Inn hotel for a site in Wembley Park, north-west London.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrance: BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts has appointed Karim Malik as CEO of The Boost Society, its PBSA division.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: MCR Property Group has acquired the Foundry Court and Trinity Student Village assets in Preston.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNigeria: Nigeria accounts for around one million of Africa’s estimated 1.5 million student housing bed shortage, according to a new report examining purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) across the continent.
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 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.
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