What was unique about student accommodation industry performance and activity in Q1 of 2024? In the student accommodation arena, there continues to be a focus on the impact of international students and the financial viability of secondary/regional institutions. To...
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SHURE Thoughts for the Day – March 1, 2024
Many post-secondary campuses, certainly here in Ontario and across Canada, and many of my colleagues in the U.S. have started the process of developing renewable energy strategies. - Anthony (Tony) Cupido, Ph.D., P.Eng., Research Chair, Sustainable Building...
SHURE Thoughts for the Day – Feb 9, 2024
Housing needs to be done within this much broader context of many municipalities, all who want to grow, but all who have housing is probably their number one limiter, so it’s a significant opportunity and a significant challenge. - Jim Dunsdon, Associate Vice...
Prioritizing Housekeeping and Cleanliness in Emerging Southern Europe PBSA Markets: Hines’s Sampietro Talks Operations in SHURE Remarks
The Challenges at Play in PBSA Today It's quite a challenge because we're living today with all these wars worldwide, which is not helping. Because of construction, utilities, etc., the cost increase is becoming a huge topic. To maintain your operations at a certain...
Markets will readjust due to interest rates and inflation, but it doesn’t mean there’s less activity: Value One’s Gruber in SHURE remarks
Value One is an Austrian-based company focused on investment, development, and student housing operations, among other things. We are active in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Italy, and Portugal. Portugal was our first foreign market. We've developed a...
Broker Insight: Savills’s Marcus Roberts Embraces Nascent European Market Opportunities
I've been involved in student housing for 23 years, from the UK, since its emergence as a sector in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I was involved in one of the first M&A transactions involving Unilodge's sale to Unite back in the early stages of the UK...
Broker Insight: JLL’s Silvia Damiano Says Eurozone Governments Support Higher Education
I'm the Head of Valuations for Southern Europe at JLL. I am responsible for the valuations of Italy, Portugal, and Spain. We value all kinds of asset classes. PBSA is one of them, of course, and we have a specialist in the different classes because the real...
SHURE Thoughts for the Day – Jan 11, 2024
If you look at older buildings, they have less social space. We have a video on structuring your dining menu options to strengthen your GPA.- Shelagh McCartney, Director of Together Design Lab; Director of +city lab, Associate Professor, School of Urban + Regional...
Syracuse University to convert on-campus luxury apartments into student housing
Syracuse University plans to convert The Marshall, a luxury high-rise apartment building owned by the school, into student housing third-year students, as reported by CNY Central in Upstate New York. According to the university, the plan to convert the luxury...