The number of new homes sold in Plymouth fell again to just 282 in 2017 – with the prices of those houses tumbling too.
Figures produced by the Land Registry suggest the city is well below its house-building target of about 1,000 new homes a year.
Plymouth City Council’s Plan for Homes says the aim is for 5,000 new homes to be built between 2016 and 2021 …
The whopping 23% proposed increase in rent at Shanowen Hall, Santry will lead to upward pressure on all tenancies
Dublin City Councillor Paul McAuliffe has called on Minister Eoghan Murphy to bring all student accommodation in under the Government’s Rent Pressure Zone regulations and for the Residential Tenancies Board to extend its protections to all student renters.
Cllr. McAuliffe was commenting after attending a protest organised by DCU Students’ Union in Shanowen Hall, Santry where students are set to see their rents rocket by 23%. Students living in one room units with shared living spaces will now be forced to fork out €9000 for a nine month period …
A new generation of students in Europe who have already transformed the student property map are now set to have an impact on co-living which could take off as a new real estate investment sector, it is claimed.
As they graduate from student life to seeking accommodation after graduation the kind of quality and services they demand are not diminishing, according to a new analysis report from real estate provider JLL.
Co-living is the next step for them with developers needing to take their demands into account in terms of the kind of accommodation they want. They are seeking high quality homes that provides them with flexibility and consistency, the report says …
A student accommodation company is eyeing expansion in Newcastle , but not by opening a new building – by taking its existing scheme higher.
The Mansion Group opened Tyne Student Living development, a purpose built student accommodation scheme in the Ouseburn area of Newcastle in 2014.
The scheme – which is soon set to have a neighbouring student housing property built on the old Tyne Tees TV site – currently has 386 student bed spaces split across a range of en-suite bedrooms, studios and one-bedroom apartments …
Midas Construction is set to start main building works on a £30m student accommodation scheme in Southampton city centre.
The 12-storey student halls development at Cumberland Place, close to Watts Park in the city centre, will provide 527 student beds, ground floor commercial space, a common room, management suite and ancillary buildings.
Midas’ client for the project is Victoria Hall Management, which in turn is developing the project for RailPen, the railway industry pension fund …
Plans for the construction of a £36m purpose built student accommodation scheme in Cardiff have been tentatively approved.
Crosslane Student Developments has secured resolution to grant planning consent for a 384-bed scheme at the northern end of Howard Gardens in Cardiff.
Boyes Rees is the appointed architect for the development, which has stepped heights of four and six storeys, rising to 10 storeys in one corner …
Plans have been submitted to Nottingham City Council to build a 301 bedroom student accommodation scheme on Huntingdon Street in the city centre.
Currently, part of the site is occupied by Aura Designer Furniture (a single-storey building which fronts Huntingdon Street), while the remainder is used as car parking and for two separate commercial single storey storage buildings.
A company called Huntingdon Notts Properties is looking to demolish the current single storey retail and storage units on the site and build the bedspaces in 112 cluster apartments …
Student housing continues to evolve. The latest generation of students have become accustomed to higher levels of serviced accommodation. And after graduation, they are looking for the same high quality accommodation that provides them with flexibility as well as the consistency they have come to know – regardless of the location. Co-living provides the answer. It offers a flexible, purpose built product that is available to the wider residential market.
With student numbers increasing and more people forecasted to be living in cities over the coming years, student housing and co-living have an important role to play in the real estate offerings of the future …
Students will soon make Bath Cricket Club their home after councillors defied advice and approved plans for a 136-bed university accommodation complex.
Officers’ ‘significant’ concerns about flooding, the loss of trees and the design of the scheme in the city’s ‘green heart’ were shared by some councillors.
But they were outvoted by planning committee members yesterday (Wednesday, March 14) in support of Bath Cricket Club’s bid to diversify its income streams and to reach the next generation of players …
Plans for a £95m luxury student accommodation scheme which will transform a derelict site at a prominent Manchester gateway have been approved.
Downing is behind the River Street application which earmarks a one-acre site bound by the Mancunian Way to the south, River Street to the north, Premier Inn to the east and Garwood Street to the west for development.
A partially demolished concrete frame building occupies some of the plot, while the remainder is vacant brownfield land …
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