Banks are curbing lending to the UK’s student housing property market as hikes in British university fees exacerbate grim conditions for real estate lending and leave the way open for new funding providers to enter the sector.
Obtaining loans from banks such as Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland has become more difficult in the last six months, several industry players told Reuters, forcing some developers to look elsewhere for backing …
One of Edinburgh’s oldest theatre buildings is set to be demolished to make way for student flats despite dozens of objections from local residents.
Developers want to use the site of the former Gateway Theatre on Elm Row to build a new development to accommodate 155 students. The “high- quality” student accommodation will include a cinema, gym, seminar rooms and communal lounge areas for its residents …
Work is under way to transform the former home of Telford College into more than 200 flats, while a former city hospital is set to be turned into hundreds of student apartments.
Miller Homes’ Varcity North development of 209 apartments, which includes the conversion of the former college building, is aimed at revitalising the area and creating a “campus-style community” in north Edinburgh.
Telford College occupied the Crewe Road North campus for almost 40 years with the project to transform it set to take around four years to complete …
Council bosses are to suspend making decisions on any new student housing developments in Leicester until March.
Leicester City Council is proposing the move until it has had time to draw up a new strategy on student accommodation.
The city has about 11,000 purpose-built student rooms in various complexes with a further 5,000 approved but awaiting construction …
New legislation has been passed placing restrictions on landlords in two wards as the council bids to tackle ‘studentification’ in the streets surrounding Brunel University.
It is part of a Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMO) crackdown, in response to growing calls from residents to get a grip on the issue.
Residents have for several years felt the expansion of student housing is out of control in the Brunel and Uxbridge South wards, causing tensions and fragmented communities …
Construction work is well under way on the newest addition to the University of York’s Heslington East campus.
The new Langwith College building is part of the university’s £750 million expansion plan and will provide self-catered accommodation for 645 students. Costing £30 million, the college is being constructed facing Goodricke College, and just to the south of of the bus interchange …
Construction work has begun on the £150m redevelopment of Gateshead centre.
The development will transform the former site of the “Get Carter” car park, Trinity Square, the indoor market and current Tesco store.
A brand new town square, 45 retail units, student accommodation, a health centre, offices and a new Tesco Extra will be built …
The University of Brighton is spending £23 million on student accommodation and a new teaching building.
The cash from Clydesdale Bank is being used to build new student accommodation at the Varley Halls of Residence site in Coldean Lane, Brighton, and a new teaching building at its Hastings campus.
The teaching building will be on the site of the current post office in Priory Square, Hastings …
Part of an historic shopping arcade could be converted into student flats.
The owner of a section of the Silver Arcade off Cank Street, in the city centre, wants to turn disused offices on the upper floors of his property into 11 apartments.
Jas Kainth’s scheme is for the 1920s building between Cank Street and Market Place – built as an extension to the better-known Grade II listed Victorian arcade opposite …
Liverpool university today invited the public to find out more about its £600m masterplan to give students a “world-class” experience.
The exhibition, which will be held over two days, will outline early plans for new student accommodation at the university’s sites in Crown Street and Mulberry Court, in Brownlow Hill, and the wider plans to improve and open up the city centre campus, which it believes will help connect neighbouring communities …
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