UPP completes £24m Kent student investment deal
UPP has completed a £24m transaction with the University of Kent to build a new student accommodation facility …
UPP has completed a £24m transaction with the University of Kent to build a new student accommodation facility …
Unite Group has a construction pipeline of 2,300 student beds in London between 2012 and 2014, according to its latest interim management statement …
The government may be moving to increase higher education tuition fees, but Unite Group, the UK’s largest listed student landlord, said it was still confident that the demand for accommodation would grow.
Updating the market for the five months to November 4, Unite said 97 per cent of its portfolio of nearly 40,000 beds had been reserved for the 2010/2011 academic year, and that it expected rents to increase by 3-4 per cent this year …
Unite has confirmed its buy out of Connaught’s 40% share in UCS, a joint venture between the two firms which provides maintenance to student accommodation.
Chief executive Mark Allan said Unite had paid just £40 to acquire the stake, in line with the joint venture agreement, following Connaught’s demise in September.
This will give Unite control of all maintenance services across its student accommodation portfolio …
Walking around King’s Cross’s goods yards in its Victorian heyday, one would encounter herds of cattle, vast piles of coal and potatoes, and even, for a short time, cadavers. Even though the clanking freight trains are now long gone, the site’s stakeholders are hoping its future will be as diverse as its past …
The skyline of Manchester city centre will gain another tower crane next month when Shepherd Construction erects one at the £45m student housing block next to the mainline train station.
The 33-storey, 520-bed residential tower designed by Hodder & Partners is being built in Great Marlborough Street for the overseas and mature student market by newly formed developer Student Castle.
There are currently seven active cranes on three sites in the city centre: three at the new Co-operative Group headquarters, two at Chetham’s School of Music and two at Manchester Metropolitan University business school. There are two inactive cranes at West Properties’ Origin on Princess Street …
One hundred sites in Oxford have been identified for possible development to address the city’s housing shortage.
A list has been drawn up by Oxford City Council after landowners and developers were invited to submit sites that could be built on.
The council says all the sites have potential to be developed as housing, student accommodation, shops or offices. Some of the larger sites could provide homes for hundreds of people, with the smallest plots only able to take 12 dwellings …
The government is lifting the cap on university tuition fees to £9,000 by 2012. Will it increase demand for shorter, cheaper courses?
Few people forget their first days at university… The tentative introduction to the fellow fresher next door, hopelessly trying to navigate around a bewildering campus and wondering why everyone else seems more intelligent.
But how many would remember anything about their course during the first year? …
Students in universities in England face tuition fees of up to £9,000 per year from 2012, as the government reveals its plans for higher education.
The coalition’s response to Lord Browne’s funding review will be published on Wednesday.
Universities will be able to charge £6,000 with a higher tier of £9,000 – nearly treble existing levels – if they promote access for poorer students …
An Islamic investment bank based in Kuwait has snapped up a student accommodation block in Cowley for £28.95m.
The new building, on the former Territorial Army site at Slade Park, is built around a central courtyard and contains 350 ensuite rooms in apartments with independent kitchens and sitting areas, as well as 24 self-contained studios.
A spokesman for Oxford Brookes University, which will nominate the tenants in the block, said the new building would fulfil an important role as the university was under an obligation to cut the number of its students in private rented accommodation …
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