Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Sama Investment Group, a Birmingham-based developer and investor, has had plans for 130 student beds at the edge of Coventry city centre approved by councillors.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Plans to convert a group of vacant office buildings on the Headrow in Leeds into more than 100 student flats have been given the green light by Leeds City Council.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: The student housing sector is outperforming other real estate verticals, according to the latest National Student Housing Report from Yardi Matrix.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Italy: The University of Messina (UniME) in Sicily is the new owner of the Hotel Riviera in the city.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Singapore: The Ascott Limited (Ascott) has established a development venture totalling US$150 million in committed equity to develop student accommodation assets in the USA.
Reading Time: < 1 minute France: UXCO Group, the Brookfield-backed operator of student and young professional living spaces in France, has acquired a development site next to its existing ECLA student asset.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Ascott Residence Trust (ART) will acquire a freehold 548-bed student accommodation asset, named Seven07 in Champaign, Illinois, for US$83.25 million (S$112.4 million).
