CBRE: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Purpose Built Student Accommodation Sector as at April 2020
The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared by the World Health Organisation as a “Global Pandemic” on the 11th March 2020.
Pre-COVID-19, the purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) sector was in the best shape it had ever been in. With lots of media activity surrounding the higher education sector, we recap on why the fundamentals were so strong, think about what the new post-COVID-19 landscape may look like and what this may mean for the sector …