Market Monitor Digest (week 37/2024)
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Student Housing & Co-Living
UK: Stoke, Liverpool and Edinburgh the best cities to profit as a student landlord
Ryan Bembridge, September 10, 2024
Landlords in Stoke-on-Trent typically achieve annual yields of 9.43%, making it the most profitable area to be a buy-to-let landlord. Average house prices come to just under £147,000 in Stoke, while rental incomes in the city come to £13,900. Students studying at Stafford and Keele universities mean there’s strong tenant demand. Student postcodes in Liverpool achieved the second highest yields at 8.93%, followed by Edinburgh with yields of 8.23%.
UK, London: Green light for Regal’s 294-home student-led scheme in Camden
Daniel Gayne, September 12, 2024
Camden Council has unanimously approved Regal’s student accommodation-led residential development next to the iconic Roundhouse music venue in north London. The redevelopment of 100 Chalk Farm Road will see four new blocks varying in height from 6 to 12 storeys built on the 0.3ha site opposite the Grade-II listed venue. In all, 264 student bedrooms, 30 affordable homes and nearly 11,000 sq ft of ground floor commercial space will be delivered as part of the scheme, which was designed in collaboration with DSDHA.
UK, Nottingham: Developer puts major Nottingham site on the market for £3.9 million
Sam Metcalf, September 11, 2024
Developer Cassidy has put its proposed Chainey Place development on London Road in Nottingham up for sale for an asking price of £3.9 million. The site has planning permission for both 122 private rented sector apartments or 245 purpose-built student accommodation beds.
Spain, Zaragoza: CEOE Aragón approves the sale of land next to the Aragon pavilion at Expo 92
Marcos Calvo Lamana, September 11, 2024
The Medinvest and King Street firms have the land available to acquire a 10,881 square meter plot on which they plan to build a private residence for 670 students.
UAE, Dubai: Grand Regal Real Estate Launches $10 Million Affordable and Flexible Co-Living and Shared Working Spaces in Dubai
Author unknown, September 06, 2024
Grand Regal Real Estate, a prominent real estate company in Dubai, is pleased to announce its latest $10 million project, which introduces innovative co-living and shared working spaces in key areas of the city.
BTR
Spain: A new housing plan arrives to add 2,200 affordable rental apartments in Madrid
By Idealista, September 05, 2024
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, presented this morning the Suma Vivienda Plan, which will allow the construction of more than 2,200 homes for affordable rent in the new urban developments of Los Ahijones and Los Berrocales, in the Vicálvaro district. Almeida has announced the publication by the Municipal Housing and Land Company of Madrid (EMVS Madrid), of the specifications to tender the first phase of the plan, with 27 plots to build and manage, through public-private collaboration, more than 1,600 affordable rental public housing.
UK: L&G’s first-ever BTR investment on the block for £110 MLN
By Ciaran Nerval, September 06, 2024
Legal & General’s prime Build to Rent (BTR) development, The Slate Yard in Manchester’s thriving New Bailey regeneration area hits the market, available at a guide price of £110 MLN. Completed in phases between 2017 and 2020, The Slate Yard includes 424 luxury homes across three buildings in a mix of one-, two-, andcthree-bedroom apartments. The scheme offers a total of 275,115 sq ft of high specification living accommodation. Amenities include a state-of-the-art gym, a residents’ lounge, co-working spaces, and 24/7 concierge services.
Spain: Sánchez stops the market launch of 4,000 social flats by challenging Prohens' housing decree
By Indalecio Ribelles, September 05, 2024
The Balearic Executive and the central government have constituted a bilateral commission to resolve the discrepancies raised after Pedro Sánchez's challenge to the housing decree of the Government of Marga Prohens, filing a notice of constitutionality against several aspects of the rule, which among other issues, puts in check the construction of 4,000 social flats in the Balearic Islands. It also affects the viability of the Build to Rent (BTR) program, of transfer of public land to the private initiative for the construction of protective housing (VPO) and in collaboration with the municipalities.
Australia: Milton BTR, Billionaire’s West End ‘Towerettes’ Greenlit
By Phil Bartsch, September 05, 2024
Queensland billionaire John Van Lieshout has been given the green light for a mixed-use project designed as a stepped collection of ‘towerettes’ at inner-city Brisbane’s West End. The approved plans comprise 103 apartments rising up to 18 storeys above an inverted podium.
Senior Living
France: Résidence Services Senior Versailles - a second residence Les Jardins d'Arcadie will open in Versailles this fall
By Capgeris, September 06, 2024
After the residence on rue Borgnis Desbordes that opened in 2013, Les Jardins d'Arcadie is located at 4 rue Monseigneur Gibier, and will welcome their new tenants next fall. A stone's throw from the Potager du Roi, in the historic Saint-Louis district, the brand new residence of 75 apartments for rent, from studio to T3, is for seniors who want to enjoy a home more adapted to their age, in a friendly and warm environment.
Germany: 60 apartments for seniors are to be built on the Sandweg in Bienenbüttel
By Jannis Wiepcke, September 10, 2024
The demographic change is making itself felt: The society is getting older and with it the need for suitable housing for seniors is growing - a development that does not affect the community either. For several years now, politics has been discussing how new housing options can be created. Now a short-term solution is emerging. he need is now to be met with a new project: The construction of 60 residential units is planned at the old curtain center in Sandberg.
US: Harrison Street and Brightview strengthen US partnership with new acquisitions
By IPE Real Assets, September 09, 2024
Harrison Street has acquired five US senior living communities as part of its ongoing partnership with Brightview Senior Living. The alternative real assets investment firm has acquired 743 units across newly constructed communities in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia for an undisclosed amount from Brightview.
Germany: Multi-generational house “Onni house” will be built by 2026
By Björn Leffler, September 09, 2024
The construction project "Onni house" in Berlin-Köpenick is currently being built on the Wendenschloßstraße in a direct water position. The multi-generational project combines barrier-free condominiums with senior and nursing homes, and a Protestant daycare center with 124 places is also planned. In the new residential quarter, an integrative and communal concept of life is to be realized
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