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Finance in place for Glasgow student rooms

3 May 16 Balfour Beatty has secured development finance with Investec Bank for a student accommodation project on Kennedy Street, Glasgow.

Illustration of the student accommodation on Kennedy Street
Illustration of the student accommodation on Kennedy Street

This is Balfour Beatty’s first project for the direct let market as a developer of student accommodation. Balfour Beatty’s developer role includes site purchase, planning, design, construction and operation of the scheme, together with direct letting of the rooms and student management elements.

The student accommodation development on the east side of Glasgow will have 536 bedrooms, split across two blocks around a central courtyard containing 149 self-contained studios and 387 bedrooms in cluster flats. Construction work on the new residences began in November 2015 and the works are on course for completion by July 2017.

The facility was agreed with Investec Bank’s Structured Property Finance team which has specialist knowledge of the student accommodation market as well as residential, mixed-use and commercial property, offering senior/stretched senior debt, and equity solutions to clients.

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Ian Woosey, investment director for the student accommodation sector at Balfour Beatty Investments said: “As one of the leading developer/contractors in the student accommodation market, we are delighted to have arranged the optimum funding package to carry out this development in Glasgow. From our wide ranging experience of working in this sector, we believe there is a good demand for high quality, purpose built cluster flats and studios in this part of Glasgow. The residences will be marketed direct to students later in the year and will be available for the September 2017 student intake.”

Mark Bladon at Investec Structured Property Finance added: “Notwithstanding signs of yield compression, we still like the student accommodation market and our appetite remains strong to provide stretched senior development finance for the right deals such as this.”

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