Market Monitor Digest (Week 25/2025)

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June 20, 2025 BONARD Market Monitor team

Student Housing & Co-Living

Spain and Portugal: Nido Living acquires Livensa Living portfolio in a landmark €1.2 billion transaction

By Nido Living, June 19, 2025

Nido Living has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Brookfield Asset Management’s Iberian student housing portfolio, Livensa Living, in a landmark transaction valued at €1.2 billion. This transformative move significantly advances Nido’s strategic goal of owning and operating 25,000 beds across continental Europe by 2031.

Read more (nidoliving.com)

UK: Far East Orchard closes $166 million UK student housing fund 

By Singapore Business Review, June 19, 2025

Far East Orchard has closed its first UK student accommodation development fund, securing $166 million (£96 million) in committed capital. Institutional investors contributed 63.5% of the total, with Far East Orchard retaining a 36.5% stake. The fund, named FE UK Student Accommodation Development Fund (FESAD), is part of the company’s strategy to grow fee-based income and shift towards an asset-light business model.

Read more (sbr.com.sg)

UK, Belfast: Councillors approve plans for large-scale £65 million student accommodation blocks and summer overnight rentals

By The Irish News, June 17, 2025

Representatives on the council’s planning committee agreed on Tuesday evening to the erection of the 895-room purpose-built managed student accommodation across 9 and 20-storey blocks, on Corporation Street. The Building will be sited between Corporation and Tomb Street, opposite the Head Post Office.

Read More (irishnews.com)

US, Johnson City: Student Housing Asset Serving East Tennessee State University Trades For $26.2 Million 

By Citybiz, June 18, 2025

Transwestern Real Estate Services announces that its National Student Housing team brokered the disposition of Monarch 815, a 576-bed student housing community at 1109 University Parkway in Johnson CityTennessee.

Read More (citybiz.co)

Australia, Darwin: Global Operator Plots Student Tower in Darwin  

By The Urban Developer, June 17, 2025

Global student accommodation provider Campus Living Villages has filed plans for a 14-storey student living tower in Darwin’s CBDCharles Darwin University would own the 357-bed property on a 1510sq m site at 56 Woods Street and lease it to Campus Living Villages (CLV) under a sublease arrangement.

Read More (theurbandeveloper.com)

Built-to-Rent

Australia: Pro-invest, Kajima plan $1.5 billion build-to-rent (BTR) portfolio

By AFR, June 16, 2025

Pro-invest Group has partnered with Japan’s Kajima Corporation to develop a portfolio of build-to-rent (BTR) housing across Australian cities that could be worth as much as $1.5 billion in five years’ time, in a sign investors have become more confident about the outlook for construction costs.

Read More (afr.com)

UK: Apache Capital and Moda Group agree land sale in Hove

By Estates Gazette, June 16, 2025

Apache Capital and Moda Group have agreed to sell a development plot in Hove to Homes for Brighton & Hove, marking the final phase of their build-to-rent (BTR) neighbourhood, Moda, Hove Central. The transaction is subject to planning approval. The site, adjacent to the Hove Central scheme, is set to deliver more than 300 affordable homes. It will be developed by Homes for Brighton & Hove, a joint venture between Brighton & Hove City Council and the Hyde Group, established in 2017 with a mandate to build 1,000 homes for low-income households.

Read More (estatesgazette.co.uk)

Germany: Around 75 apartments: Massive development planned on Römerstraße in Weilheim

By Merkur, June 16, 2025

Römerstraße/Hardtkapellenstraße development was planned at a recent meeting. The Catholic St. Ulrichswerk wants to create affordable housing there if possible with income-oriented support from the Free State: six new buildings, around 75 apartments, underground parking and a playground.

Read More (ejeprime.com)

Spain: The Law of changes of use of Madrid promotes the creation of 1,525 affordable homes

By Eje Prime, June 12, 2025

Asprima takes stock of Law 3/2024 and highlights that during the first year of application there will be 2,900 homes. He believes that, with the appropriate reforms and more institutional collaboration, it would be a key rule.

Read More (ejeprime.com)

Senior Living

South Korea: S.Korea eases path for foreign REITs in senior housing push

By The Korea Economic Daily, June 12, 2025

South Korea, grappling with a fast-aging population, has relaxed development and ownership rules for senior housing, opening the sector to foreign healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) and fueling new waves of investment.

Read More (kedglobal.com)

US: Danbury grants tax break for new senior apartments after elderly woman pleads for more housing

By News Times, June 13, 2025

A plan for affordable senior apartments in downtown Danbury that has been on the drawing board for 14 years will begin construction as soon as 2026 after the City Council granted the nonprofit project a seven-year tax break.

Read More (newstimes.com)

US: Country Manor breaks ground on senior living, day care facility in Brainerd

By Brainerd Dispatch, June 13, 2025

A “welcoming, vibrant and life-enriching” senior community is coming to Brainerd. Pinecrest will encompass 54 acres and include 32 luxury apartments, 44 senior apartments and 30 memory care/enhanced assisting living units in a 187,240-square foot building.

Read More (brainerddispatch.com)

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