The family of Hong Kong’s late “Minibus King” Ma Ah-muk has put up for sale a 93-key hotel in the city’s Sai Ying Pun area, with brokers marketing the budget hostelry for conversion to student housing.
With Ma having built… Read More>>
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The family of Hong Kong’s late “Minibus King” Ma Ah-muk has put up for sale a 93-key hotel in the city’s Sai Ying Pun area, with brokers marketing the budget hostelry for conversion to student housing.
With Ma having built… Read More>>

ASX-listed construction giant Lendlease and Australia’s largest owner-operator of student housing, Scape, have received final approval for their A$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) transformation of Queen Victoria Market in central Melbourne.
The mixed-use project, featuring 1,100 beds for university students and… Read More>>

A hotel in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok area is being marketed as a student housing investment for private buyers as the city’s hospitality market flounders and higher-end rental housing players stay on the sidelines.
Hotel Ease – Mong Kok is… Read More>>

Australia’s largest owner and operator of student housing Scape has closed on A$3 billion ($2 billion) in fresh debt financing, with part of the offering nearly three times oversubscribed amid growing appetite for purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in the country.

Brookfield Asset Management has acquired a 50 percent stake in Journal Student Living, the student accommodation operating unit of Australian developer and investor Citiplan, as it seeks to capitalise on an influx of international students into Australia’s already tight private… Read More>>

Singapore-based Q Investment Partners has formed a £100 million ($128 million) UK student housing joint venture with Malaysian builder Gamuda Land to develop a 299-bed project in southeast London.
The property in the Woolwich area on the south bank of… Read More>>

Singapore-listed CapitaLand Ascott Trust has taken full ownership of Standard at Columbia after acquiring the remaining 10 percent stake in the US student accommodation asset.
In 2021, CLAS (then known as Ascott Residence Trust) teamed with sponsor The Ascott Ltd… Read More>>

Singapore’s Mapletree Investments continues to expand its global portfolio of student housing with the unit of Temasek Holdings announcing on Friday that it has acquired 31 purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) assets in Europe from its compatriots at Cuscaden Peak Investments.

Australia’s largest owner and operator of student housing is about to move up a grade with Scape announcing today that it has formed a fresh A$1 billion ($658 million) joint venture with the Netherlands’ APG Asset Management and Canadian pension… Read More>>

Singapore fund manager Cambridge RE Partners has made its second purchase of an Australian educational property in three months with its acquisition of a 592-bed property near Sydney, according to an announcement by the firm.
On behalf of its Cambridge… Read More>>