Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) Represents Excellent Investment Opportunity in UK
In search of the best property tokenization opportunities in the UK, the Smartlands Platform research team has focused its attention on purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) properties. In our opinion, this real estate class provides outstanding opportunities for Smartlands Platform to offer great security tokens to investors due to strong performance and potential for further growth.
Market outlook: unambiguous and hungry
Student accommodations remain an attractive asset class in the UK where specialist funds, REITs and particularly overseas investors are looking to benefit from Sterling’s current weakness. The investment community continues to chase long-term stable income in a low-interest world where more traditional property sectors look less attractive than they have historically. Thus interest for student property remained strong throughout 2018 with prime operational assets being in exceptionally high demand.
UK universities continue to attract an increasing number of students from outside the UK, with the number of EU students growing by 63% and international students by 215% since 1999/00. There are now over 285,000 students from outside the UK, making up nearly one quarter (23%) of the student population.
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