Student housing

Our student housing specialists are experts in executing traditional investment sales, large-scale portfolio sales, recapitalizations, equity placement and debt sourcing services to maximize value for our clients.

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Obtain financing

Our deep capital relationships, along with our integrated global platform, allows us to create unique strategies that best fit our client’s debt goals. We provide construction, interim and permanent debt solutions, asset management to optimize operating performance, and strategic advisory guidance throughout the entire property lifecycle.

Sell your property

Founded on industry-leading market analysis and investor intelligence, our facilitation of student housing sales ensures optimum price and certainty of closing.

Buy student housing property

Find the investment opportunities suited to your preferences, source capital at a competitive rate, access under-the-radar opportunities, and get contract review and due diligence support.

Obtain equity solutions

JLL can assist with all your equity placement needs including joint ventures, participating debt and mezzanine financing structures, ground-up development capitalization and traditional outright sale alternatives.

Get strategic advice

JLL’s student housing team is the largest in the US and has unparalleled access to resources – including our 300+ person Higher Education Advisory Counsel, dedicated global capital partners, and dynamic research – allowing us to provide highly informed advisory services to our clients.

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Our access to global capital combined with our financing expertise, renowned property insight and integrated research will give you the confidence to see the opportunities that others overlook.

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Global | Investor | November 11, 2021 | Student Housing

Investors turn to student housing as in-person learning returns

Returning confidence and a hunt for yield is pushing deal volumes higher

Global | Investor | April 16, 2021 | Residential | Multifamily

From room service to rehab, distressed assets are finding new life

Demand for “convertible” properties has skyrocketed over the past year

Global | Cities | November 18, 2020 | Education | Student Housing

How universities are coping as international students retreat

Universities are reconsidering their campus experience to address a revenue gap left by dwindling enrolments

In the news

November 11, 2021

New investors make student housing sector more competitive

New investor interest and demand is creating more competition in the student housing sector as it continues to recover with in-person learning.

JLL delivers 34,000 SF residential facility for Impact 360 Institute

Heritage Student Housing will accommodate up to 65 students and support the nonprofit’s future growth

Student-housing community near Kutztown University sells for $20.1M

JLL Capital Markets closed the $20.1 million sale of Edge at Kutztown, a student-housing community located near Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

Investor demand driving alternatives into the spotlight

Alternative real estate assets collectively brought in more than $47.9B in transactions in 2020, leading investors to focus more on these assets.

Student housing dormitory near University of Kansas sells

JLL Capital Markets closed the sale of Naismith Hall, a 504-bed student housing community located on campus at the University of Kansas.

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