Student Accommodation
With higher education having become one of the world’s most successful and dynamic industries, the student accommodation sector has grown to become a mature and stable asset class, attractive to both international and domestic real estate investors.
Our multi-disciplinary student accommodation team advises specialist operators, universities, fund managers, equity investors and lenders in the sector. We focus on the entire life-cycle of student accommodation assets and businesses.
- Owners on direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals of portfolios of student accommodation properties.
- On planning, forward-funding, development, management, nominations and letting agreements for universities and owner-operators.
- Investment managers on structuring and equity capital raising for joint ventures and open-ended and closed-end funds investing in the sector.
- Lenders to student accommodation platforms and businesses.
We have advised on some of the largest and most high-profile transactions in multiple jurisdictions for market-leading operators, investors and lenders. Our exposure to this sector places us in a unique position in which to add value to our clients.
Adviser to the leading student accommodation provider in the UK
Location: UK, Nationwide
- Advised Unite Students on a £300 million fundraising for the Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (USAF);
- Advised on the £270 million acquisition of the AUB UK Student Accommodation Fund, a portfolio of 2,099 beds across eight properties in London, Durham, Birmingham, York, Oxford, Leeds and Glasgow; and
- Advising on all real estate matters for the USAF and LSAV (a 50/50 joint venture between the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Unite) which has included:
- acquisitions including Stratford One and Aston Student Village;
- disposals including the Project Spring Portfolio, Project Mayflower Portfolio and Woburn Place in London;
- forward funding developments including Beech House in Oxford, Rushford Court in Durham and 1st Way Wembley;
- refinancing portfolios of properties; and
- strategic environmental and planning advice.
London's leading multidisciplinary university
Location: UK, London
Advising on UCL East, a 1.5 million sq ft development project. The development involves a brownfield site and the designing of a new university complex with a mix of student and staff accommodation.
New York University "Plan 2031" project
Location: U.S., New York
Represented New York University in the development of a master plan and obtained land use approvals for the “Plan 2031” project, a long-term city-wide strategy for growth involving the expansion of the University’s core campus in Greenwich Village.
King’s College London’s purpose-built student development
Location: UK, London
Advising on the Vauxhall student accommodation development scheme for King’s College London which involves a £120 million, 32 storey, purpose-built student development of 553 bedrooms in the heart of Vauxhall and Nine Elms.
- Owners on direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals of portfolios of student accommodation properties.
- On planning, forward-funding, development, management, nominations and letting agreements for universities and owner-operators.
- Investment managers on structuring and equity capital raising for joint ventures and open-ended and closed-end funds investing in the sector.
- Lenders to student accommodation platforms and businesses.
We have advised on some of the largest and most high-profile transactions in multiple jurisdictions for market-leading operators, investors and lenders. Our exposure to this sector places us in a unique position in which to add value to our clients.
Adviser to the leading student accommodation provider in the UK
Location: UK, Nationwide
- Advised Unite Students on a £300 million fundraising for the Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (USAF);
- Advised on the £270 million acquisition of the AUB UK Student Accommodation Fund, a portfolio of 2,099 beds across eight properties in London, Durham, Birmingham, York, Oxford, Leeds and Glasgow; and
- Advising on all real estate matters for the USAF and LSAV (a 50/50 joint venture between the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Unite) which has included:
- acquisitions including Stratford One and Aston Student Village;
- disposals including the Project Spring Portfolio, Project Mayflower Portfolio and Woburn Place in London;
- forward funding developments including Beech House in Oxford, Rushford Court in Durham and 1st Way Wembley;
- refinancing portfolios of properties; and
- strategic environmental and planning advice.
London's leading multidisciplinary university
Location: UK, London
Advising on UCL East, a 1.5 million sq ft development project. The development involves a brownfield site and the designing of a new university complex with a mix of student and staff accommodation.
New York University "Plan 2031" project
Location: U.S., New York
Represented New York University in the development of a master plan and obtained land use approvals for the “Plan 2031” project, a long-term city-wide strategy for growth involving the expansion of the University’s core campus in Greenwich Village.
King’s College London’s purpose-built student development
Location: UK, London
Advising on the Vauxhall student accommodation development scheme for King’s College London which involves a £120 million, 32 storey, purpose-built student development of 553 bedrooms in the heart of Vauxhall and Nine Elms.
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