Unite plans landbuying spree for £300m of student homes
Listed student housing provider Unite Group is planning a massive expansion of its development programme by buying land for 3,000 student flats in the next 12 months.
Richard Simpson, the firm’s development managing director, said the firm, which uses contractors including Mansell, Shepherd, Carillion, RG Group, Stewart Milne and Woolf, was looking to get a “much, much larger development pipeline”.
He said Unite had £120m to spend on between 12 and 16 sites, which would have a development value of about £300m …