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Strategic Planning. Now's the Time. Carter Senior Vice President John Jokerst.
In today’s challenging economic climate, colleges and universities are faced with a unique situation. While state-appropriated funds to support new facilities on public campuses are becoming scarce and endowments at private institutions have taken a hit, more students are attending institutions of higher education than ever before. The best and worst student accommodation. It's the tallest and largest student accommodation block ever built.
It towers 33 floors over London's Spitalfields market, just minutes from trendy Hoxton and Brick Lane, and promises breathtaking floor-to-ceiling views "you won't get tired of waking up to". Its 1,204 student rooms offer everything a bright young thing might want – broadband in every room, chillout spaces boasting giant flat-screen televisions, and an ultra-modern gym and spa. But what might really take your breath away is the rent. Private developer Nido is charging £14,280 a head to share a flat with three others, or £16,830 if you'd rather have a studio with kitchenette and live by yourself.
That's more than £50,000 just for college accommodation over three years. Student housing a good investment - Business - Personal finance - School Inc. - NBCNews.com. Images of crushed beer cans and empty pizza boxes aside, a growing shortage in student housing has private investors and even financial firms heading back to school for investment returns.
According to Michael Zaransky, co-CEO of Prime Property Investors based in Northbrook, Ill., and author of Profit by Investing in Student Housing: Cash In On the Campus Housing Shortage, the opportunity has staying power. “About 80 million 'echo boomers' will turn eighteen over the next ten years,” he says. Prop.pdf (application/pdf Objeto)
Student Housing Market Getting Good Grades. Bill Bayless, president and chief executive officer of American Campus Communities, Inc.
(NYSE: ACC), spoke with REIT.com during REITWeek 2011: NAREIT's Investor Forum. Bayless said the student housing market is truly ripe for consolidation. "There are very few well-capitalized players within this sector," he said, adding that there are only three public companies targeting the space. That leaves plenty of smaller, local or regional assets or portfolios waiting to be consolidated. Establishing a brand-name in the student housing market is a bit different than in some other commercial real estate sectors. "However, at the university level among university presidents and CFOs and directors of housing, that is where we are establishing our brand," he said.
Bayless has often said one of the biggest misperceptions about the student housing market is that students make bad tenants, with many people having "Animal House"-like visions in their heads. Good News As Congress Extends Low Rates on College Debt. WASHINGTON, DC—Coming in at the eleventh hour, Congress decided Friday afternoon to allow for a one-year extension of a bill that would keep interest rates for student loans at a low 3.4%.
New federally subsidized student loans would have otherwise doubled on July 1. Student loan debt is believed to be the second-largest financial crisis in the US, after the housing disaster. According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college fees in the US rose 439% between 1982 and 2007. During the same 25-year period, the median family income only went up by 147%. New Faces Offer Interesting Student Housing Perspectives. Student Housing May Offer Promise, But Beware Pitfalls. Sign up for GlobeSt.com’s NEW Student Housing Leader Email (launching June 25th) for weekly in-depth examinations of the market conditions and trends shaping the student housing industry.
FORT WORTH-Anyone with a modicum of commercial real estate knowledge has heard of student housing and what a wonderful sector it is. Exploding college enrollment combined with supply constraints has combined to make the student housing sector a popular one in which to buy and sell. Student housing experts tell GlobeSt.com that there is reality to the hype.
But these experts also point out potential pitfalls to the unwary buyer, seller or owner of any kind of student housing.
Smart, Easy Project Offers New Way to Enter Student Housing. WATERLOO, ONTARIO—Student housing is such a hot item that investors of all stripes have been looking to get into the sector.
Everyone from institutional players to REITs to high net worth private investors has put capital into the product. Now, there’s an opportunity for individual investors to get in on the action on a smaller scale. Development To Focus On Multifamily, Education, Healthcare. Gen Y’ers are more interested inrenting homes than buying them,providing a market for multifamilyproperties, says McAvey.
(Save the dates: RealShare Apartments comes to the Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, October 24, and RealShare Medical Office buildings comes to the Four Seasons in Scottsdale, AZ, November 7 -8, 2012.) Exclusive Interview With Bernards’ Steve Pellegren. Pellegren says “Adding even moreamenities to aggressively marketproperties to GenY as wellas the next generation of students” will be what is in student housing’s future.
