Student Accommodation

Industrial listings are beginning to win even more hearts and minds in New South Wales’ commercial property market, but it was a yet-to-be-completed shopping centre and a potential student development opportunity that drew the most …

The country’s largest student accommodation provider Scape is seeking to expedite approval of its $2 billion acquisition of rival operator Urbanest as it confronts the coronavirus crisis.

Wollongong is set for more high-rise development following a DA approved site on Crown Ln coming up for sale.

Student accommodation in Australia is set for a new era, with the acquisitive Scape operation locking in its position as the dominant player with the $2 billion-plus purchase of the Urbanest portfolio that spans major capitals.

A proposed world-class lifestyle precinct in Glenorchy could also include student accommodation, council documents reveal.

For 200 years Australia’s prosperity has been largely driven by the regions via the export of wool and wheat and then coal, iron ore and more recently natural gas.

Brisbane’s Elizabeth Arcade’s new look has been completed, with a pair of student accommodation towers the new centrepieces of the historic thoroughfare.

Australia has been named the top student accommodation market in the world as the sector matures in the eyes of global investors.

Student accommodation provider Scape has taken the mantle as the country’s top student accommodation provider by picking up the Atira platform in a near $700 million deal, with the backing of powerful duo Allianz Real Estate and AXA Investment Managers-Real Assets.