According to the consultancy firm Savills Aguirre Newman, investments in student residences in Europe will reach 8.4 billion euros in 2021.
Estimated investments for 2022 reach €9.5 billion, similar to the total in 2019. If this were to occur, student residences would have recovered to pre-pandemic levels. “Investment activity will intensify over the next 12 months, driven by investors’ search for value in the living segments,” Savills reports.
The firm also expects a concentration of deals by the end of 2022, coinciding with the first generation of developers and operators ready to sell their assets and divest.
Following the normalisation of the pandemic, occupancies have recovered to 90%. Market players expect it to rise to around 100% next year.
