Student Housing Planet

The Lincoln Townhomes are the newest edition to University Housing. It’s important to continue creating housing to allow more students to live on campus, but these townhomes target the wrong demographic. Instead of housing freshman and sophomores, the townhomes are reserved for juniors and seniors. According to Jeff Hale, the executive director of University Housing [...]

UNLV’s residence halls are currently at about 50 percent occupancy, but a new effort is aimed at bolstering traffic in — and revenue from — campus housing facilities. Student Union and Event Services (SUEC) now manages much of the dorm housing as public hotel space. And students (most from the William F. Harrah College of [...]

The University of California has been slowly expanding the use of private developers to build student housing over the last decade, authorizing seven such deals since 2000 at UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Riverside. The growth of these partnerships in the Golden State is part of a national trend reported by The New York [...]

Transfer student and interior design major Chelsea Keith studies information about the TCU Recreation Center at Transfer Connections last year. The university registered 120 January transfer students this month, down from the record 173 students the university enrolled in January 2011. Dean of Admission Ray Brown said part of the reason for the lower rate [...]

Main Street Commons will be home solely to upperclassmen starting next semester. Last fall, Bradley put together a pilot program offering apartment- style housing as an option for incoming freshmen. Alan Galsky, Vice President for Student Affairs, said the program’s goal was to mimic an on-campus residential experience. After a trial semester, the university decided [...]

Stetson University has purchased a local apartment complex, which it plans to renovate and open as student housing in August, the private college in Volusia County announced today. Stetson bought the Stetson Cove apartments, located at 315 W. Pennsylvania Ave. in DeLand, from BSST Investments for $1.25 million earlier this month. By June 1, officials will begin $1.1 million in [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA – HFF announced today that it has secured a $56 million refinancing for Sterling Collwood, a 260-unit, Class AA student housing community near San Diego State University (SDSU) in San Diego, California. Working exclusively on behalf of AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp., HFF placed the seven- year, 4.57 percent fixed-rate loan [...]