LaSalle Investment Management’s latest real estate debt deal – a €20.5 million loan to finance 360-bed, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development in the Spanish city of Granada – demonstrates how property lenders are exploring opportunities in the higher education sector beyond mature markets such as the UK..
Is there merit in introducing Opportunity Zones to stimulate investment into the Build-to-Rent sector in the UK?
In 2017, the Trump administration introduced Opportunity Zones (OZ) as part of wider tax reform legislation. OZs were set up to attract investments into designated low-income communities throughout the US. The investments are to be channelled through specialised investment vehicles called Opportunity Funds (OF) that benefit from tax incentives…
The British group Amro Real Estate Partners has announced that it will build a residence for 230 students in the Teatinos neighborhood. In the university district, where the campus and most of the the faculties of the University of Malaga sit.
London-based investor Amro Real Estate Partners has bought a site in Seville, marking its second acquisition within its student housing platform in Spain and Portugal.
Amro Real Estate Partners has acquired a 64,580 sq ft buildable plot in Málaga, as part of its plans to set up a €500m (£440m) student housing portfolio across Iberia. The site has zoning permission to develop a 230-bedroom property.
The British company specialised in student housing projects 5,000 beds in Spain and Portugal, 3,000 of which are already under negotiation.
Student accommodation specialist Amro Real Estate Partners is diversifying into the private rented sector and has launched a search for a £500m capital partner.
The London-based investment and asset manager has acquired two sites, in Ealing and Kingston upon Thames, to develop under a new build-to-rent platform called AmroLiving. The schemes comprise 500 homes in total.
Amro Real Estate Partners has acquired two sites to develop under its newly launched build-to-rent platform, AmroLiving. The company plans to deliver 1,500 units across Greater London in the next five years, catering for the growing demand for purpose-built rental accommodation.
The housing crisis is a hot topic not just in the property industry but across society as a whole. A report from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee said that the UK government needed to boost its homebuilding target by 50% to create 300,000 new homes each year to tackle the housing crisis.