Investment in student property in UK is gaining momentum

Over the past two years in the UK there has been a surge of interest in investing in student property. The largest real estate Agency in the UK – Savills has published its report on trends investors considering the United Kingdom as a place to attract their investment.

In 2012 and 2013 was sold to a student of real estate on the £5 billion, and early 2014 results indicate a very high level of investment activity in the market student property.

Indeed, in the first 4 months of 2014 it was bought for student housing for £950 million, the equivalent of 17,000 student places. It is much more than in the de period of 2013 and especially more than in the same period of 2012. A surge of activity and interest to the market student property in the UK occurred in 2013, when during the year the amount of investment in this sector increased by 76%.

Savills expects a further £1.4 billion of investment until the end of the year and £2.5 billion by year-end .

Investor interest in real estate of universities and campuses are not accidental. If the rising cost of real estate in the housing market largely depends on the economic status of the UK – how will improve the unemployment situation and how the level of wages will keep pace with rising prices, the market of student housing depends on the attractiveness of the UK as a global centre of education in the eyes of the world. Now there is an influx of foreign students to the UK from South-East Asia – China, Singapore , Thailand, etc. high-Quality education received in the UK, remains the most popular in the world. It is also important that you don’t have to study in the most famous and expensive universities in the UK in Cambridge, Oxford and London. Excellent quality education can be obtained at any higher education institution, which is evenly distributed throughout the country.

Therefore, investment in student Property in the United Kingdom is always relevant, and student real estate is always marketable and brings a stable income as a capital gain and stable rental income. Company Savills predicts a further growth of investment sector student accommodation in the UK.

® Helen Antre 18. 08. 2014.

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