PfP Capital launches £550m BTR fund
Alternative asset manager PfP Capital, part of the Places for People group, has confirmed plans to launch a fund focused on investing in the build-to-rent sector with a target raise of £550m …
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Work on the biggest ever student accommodation scheme in Cardiff will start shortly
Work on the biggest ever student accommodation scheme in Cardiff will start shortly following a major property deal.
The Cardiff East Bay 711 student bed scheme will be built on the existing Evans Halshaw Citroen dealership site at East Bay Close, close to the centre of Cardiff.
Work on the project, which already has planning consent, can now start after the property arm of car dealership Pendragon, sold the site to specialist student accommodation development firm JEDS Investment …
What is going on with Liverpool’s huge unfinished student accommodation building …
A pub landlord said he suffered years of “hell” over an unfinished student block that looms over London Road.
The ECHO has investigated what has happened to the Liverpool city centre Paramount development which was meant to open in 2015 …
Planning approval for 290 beds in Birmingham
A plan to construct a 15-storey building with 290 student flats in Birmingham has been voted through by the city council.
The proposal relates to land at the corner of Communication Row and Bishopsgate Street which is currently occupied by the former Birmingham Nautical Club.
Birmingham City Council’s planning committee voted on the plan by applicant Court Collaboration at a meeting on Thursday 18 January …
45-storey tower Student Tower proposed next to London Bridge Station
Greystar plans to submit a planning application next month for the Capital House site at the corner of St Thomas Street and Weston Street.
A previous proposal for the site – a 31-storey tower dubbed ‘The Quill’ – was put forward in 2009 and won planning consent in 2011.
Greystar acquired the site last year for an undisclosed sum …
Scotland faces severe accommodation shortage for university students on campus
Scotland has a “clear problem” with providing accommodation for university students on campus, an MSP has claimed.
Green Mark Ruskell called on the Scottish Government to hold a summit of university accommodation providers and student representatives to tackle the issue.
Speaking at Holyrood, he said: “It think it is clear that we have got a problem across Scotland …
Green light expected for 430-bed Belfast student development
Planners are expected to give the green light for a 430 bed student housing development close to the new Ulster University campus in Belfast.
Belfast City Council planners have recommended that approval be given to proposals to develop the site at Little Patrick Site, with the decision expected to be ratified at the committee meeting next week.
The £18 million project is a joint venture between Lacuna Developments and Watkin Jones, who purchased the site last year from UniCiti …
£11.5m student apartment block will ‘regenerate’ area next to Nottingham train station
Work will start in March to build an £11.5m student apartment block opposite Nottingham railway station.
Located on the site of a car park next to the historic Hicking Building, at the junction of Queens Road and Summer Leys Lane, it will include 222 “high-quality” studio flats …
Chester student accommodation approved on appeal
A student accommodation block on a gateway site in Chester has been approved after a planning appeal, with an independent inspector stating Cheshire West & Chester Council had made “vague, generalised or inaccurate assertions” when it rejected the scheme last April.
The 376-bed, eight-storey project, designed by Day Architectural and brought forward by developer PJ Properties, is planned for a site between Hoole Way and Black Diamond Park, and was originally recommended for approval in April last year.
However, Cheshire West & Chester’s planning committee unanimously rejected the scheme, arguing it would “dwarf” nearby buildings, especially neighbouring homes at Black Diamond Park. Councillors also objected to a lack of parking at the scheme, with nine spaces provided …
Former Superbowl site in Lincoln to be turned into student houses
Ambitious plans to build 77 student houses on the former Superbowl site in Lincoln have been given the green light by the city council.
The town houses will boast a whopping 462 en-suite bedrooms when they are erected on Valentine Way, off Tritton Road …