Residential: Student Living
Nicholas Porter, chairman of Global Student Accommodation Group, explains why investors are lining up to fund purpose-built student accommodation across the globe.
Student housing has come a long way in the past 25 years. The sector has grown into an asset class attracting tens of billions of dollars of investment from private and institutional capital sources
attracted to the healthy supply-demand dynamics and the stable income characteristics of higher education.As society has become increasingly knowledge-based,
higher education is now seen as essential to economic growth, with countries and multinational employers around the world competing to attract top talent from an expanding middle class. Rapidly changing demographic profiles, combined with increased student mobility and globalization, are all triggering the increase in demand for a high-quality university education …