Rents for purpose-built student housing up 2.36% in 2019/20
Rents for purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) increased by 2.36% for the 2019/20 academic year, up from 2.26% in 2018/19.
While the macro picture shows steady rental growth, there are variations in performance dependant on both location and property type, highlighting the importance for investors, funders and developers of adopting a localised approach when examining individual markets.
In our analysis, rental growth has been weighted to reflect the split of bed spaces by room type in each individual city market, as well as the size of the market by total bed spaces …