Market Monitor Digest (week 10/2025)

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Student Housing & Co-Living

UK, London: Ziser submits planning for 826-bed Brent PBSA

By PBSA news, March 04, 2025

Ziser submits planning for a 826-bedroom purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in BrentNorth London.

Read more (pbsanews.co.uk)

UK, London: Watkin Jones brings Battersea Park Road PBSA to market

By Egi.co.uk, March 03, 2025

Watkin Jones is looking for a forward-funding partner for a £260 million purpose built student accommodation scheme comprising 762-beds in London’s Nine Elms. The scheme, located close to Battersea Power Station, consists of three buildings ranging from 12 to 22 storeys.

Read more (egi.co.uk)

US, Austin: Balfour Beatty to build student housing at University of Texas

By World Construction Network, March 05, 2025

This development is scheduled to open in late 2027. The new student housing project, worth $145 million, will offer 1,070 new beds in a single building, replacing six older structures with only 200 beds in total. This initiative marks the first new residence hall on the campus in nearly two decades.

Read More (worldconstructionnetwork.com)

France, Liege: A residence for 260 students will be built at the tip of the Bavarian site in Liege for the start of the school year in September 2027

By Sudinfo, March 05, 2025

The Bavaria site is continuing its transformation with the announcement of the construction of a residence for 260 students at the edge of the site to accompany the upcoming opening of the future Provincial University of Applied Sciences and its planned 3000 students.

Read More (sudinfo.be)

UK, Bristol: Plans submitted for South Bristol’s biggest ‘Co-living’ development

By Bristol Live, March 05, 2025

A prominent site on the south bank of the River Avon could be transformed into South Bristol’s biggest ‘Co-living’ development, with single rooms for as many as 113 people.

Read More (bristolpost.co.uk)

BTR

UK: CEG secures £30 MLN Leumi loan for Birmingham BTR scheme

By Property Week, March 03, 2025

Commercial Estates Group (CEG) has secured a £29 MLN loan from Leumi UK to refinance and progress the initial phases of a build-to-rent (BTR) scheme in Birmingham. Once developed, the site on Smallbrook Queensway in central Birmingham, will comprise three BTR towers providing 1,635 apartments.

Read More (propertyweek.com)

UK: Barings Forward Funds £152 MLN Residential Scheme in Leeds With Glenbrook

By Barings, March 03, 2025

Barings, one of the world’s largest diversified real estate investment managers, has agreed the £152 MLN forward funding with Glenbrook of a mixed build-to-rent (BTR) and build-to-sell scheme near Leeds city centre. Glenbrook, a leading UK residential development company, will retain a stake in the scheme in joint venture with Barings and be appointed as the development manager. Acquired on behalf of a US insurance company, the scheme on Kirkstall Road will deliver 618 one-, two- and three-bed apartments set across five buildings sitting in extensive landscape grounds, including new public realm, next to the River Aire.

Read More (barings.com)

UK: More than 350 sustainable homes and employment space proposed at historical site near Bristol's Cabot Circus

By Bristol World, March 03, 2025

The planning application has been submitted by PLATFORM_, a leading build-to-rent (BTR) developer, investor, and operator and includes the redevelopment of a historic brownfield site into 352 BTR apartments and 6,000 sqft of employment space.

Read More (bristolworld.com)

The Netherlands: 265 homes in the former Unilever lab Vlaardingen

By Property NL, March 03, 2025

ALV - a collaboration between Leyten and Van Adrighem and Plegt-Vos - will realize 265 homes in LAB, the former Unilever laboratory in Vlaardingen.

Read More (propertynl.com)

Senior Living

Germany: New apartments for seniors – what the rent costs

By MOZ, March 02, 2025

For 5 million euros, an investor is building two residential buildings directly on the B96. When the apartments for seniors are ready for occupancy and what they cost.

Read More (moz.de)

US: Big senior housing complex on the rise at 5500 Canoga Ave. in Warner Center

By Urbanize LA, February 27, 2025

Wisteria at Warner Center, now rising from a roughly 17-acre site at 5500 N. Canoga Avenue, is a six-story development that will include a total of 647 senior residential units - including 486 independent-living units, 65 assisted living units, 20 memory-care units and 76 skilled nursing beds.

Read More (la.urbanize.city)

Germany: Assisted living on the site of the former Schubotz mill - Open day on Sunday

By Cellesche Zeietung, February 28, 2025

As the operator of assisted living, Residenciano Westercelle GmbH is responsible for the rental of the 76 barrier-free apartments as well as for the care of the seniors. The sale of the residential units is carried out by the developer, Pro Urban AG.

Read More (cz.de)

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