Student housing investment soars

Transactions in the UK’s student accommodation market in the first half of 2014 totalled £1.13bn – an uplift of 20% when compared with the amount spent in the first half of 2013, reports CBRE.

In addition CBRE reports that student accommodation is attracting significant investment in the regions.

Sixty-four per cent of this year’s total has been spent in key university towns and cities such as Newcastle, Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh …

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