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The Rise of Predictive Leasing: Gen Z Influences Are Modernizing Student Housing Strategies

by Sarah Daniels October 1, 2024

Gen Z is shaking up the status quo when it comes to traditional student housing marketing strategies. Meanwhile, new predictive leasing technology enables better approaches for savvy owners and operators ready to shift toward more insightful, data-driven marketing attribution methods. One doesn’t need to be a marketing expert to see the vast differences between Gen Z and its predecessor cohorts in everything from consumer behavior and expectations to the media channels they frequent. “There is a view in the marketing world that Gen Z ‘broke’ the marketing funnel, and that …

October 1, 2024

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Despite Market Challenges, Student Housing Financing Surges Ahead

by Sarah Daniels May 20, 2024

Student housing is capturing the attention of developers, investors and institutional lenders as university enrollment and record rent gains position the sector to outperform other property types. That’s one of the dominant themes evident in Walker & Dunlop’s recently released 2024 Student Housing Outlook. Although transaction volume declined to $5.7 billion in 2023 from the previous year’s all-time high of $24 billion, strong operating fundamentals are attracting new entrants to the sector, including institutional investors and lenders. “Student housing is entering a resurgence where we predict continued outperformance relative to …

May 20, 2024

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How to Bridge the Affordability Gap in Student Housing

by Sarah Daniels May 13, 2024

As housing costs rise, colleges, universities and developers are teaming up to address a widening affordability gap at their campuses by making housing available and attainable for the population that needs it. One of the developers leading this charge is The Michaels Organization, which is applying lessons learned in its 50 years of affordable housing development to create student housing dedicated to serving students, faculty and staff who would struggle to pay market rent. Student Housing Business queried Ned Williams, executive vice president of development at The Michaels Organization, about …

May 13, 2024

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Minimize Risk, Maximize Access: The Rise of Lease Guarantees in Student Housing

by Sarah Daniels May 2, 2024

The student housing industry comes with a unique set of challenges that traditional multifamily operators don’t face. From renting to a demographic that has largely enjoyed rent-free living under mom and dad’s roof, to navigating the complexities of parental guarantors and financial aid, to grappling with no-shows and skips, student housing operators must carefully manage risks that can jeopardize occupancy and rental income. Solutions like lease guarantees are rapidly gaining traction in this market, offering a win-win approach that protects operators while expanding housing access for students. For most students, …

May 2, 2024

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Student Housing Management: How Innovative Solutions Lead to Occupancy Success at Asset Living

by Sarah Daniels April 11, 2024

Each year, the academic calendar requires student housing operators to compress revenue generation for the entire year into the nine or 10 months when students most need to rent their product. In that accelerated and ever-changing environment, management teams with the experience, skills and tools to respond quickly are in the best position to manage costs and drive growth. “I like to say that student housing moves in dog years — miss a day and you miss a week; miss a month and you could miss a year,” says Stacey …

April 11, 2024

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Why Multiplatform Marketing Is Essential in Student Housing

by Sarah Daniels October 24, 2023

Competition for student renters grew heated in 2023, fueled by softening college enrollment and an influx of newly constructed student housing across Tier II cities. The slowed pace of leasing caught many owners by surprise, triggering an 11th-hour scramble to ramp up marketing. “A lot of student housing providers were not as full as they thought they would be this fall, with performance weighed down in the Tier II markets,” says Kat Callender, a student housing marketing expert at Conversion Logix. “Some properties were only 90 percent leased in July …

October 24, 2023

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Furniture Manufacturing: Lessons Learned from Supply Chain, Sourcing Snarls

by Sarah Daniels October 17, 2023

Supply-chain predicaments and rising costs forced many in the student housing industry into a holding pattern as the 2021–2023 global supply chain crisis took its toll. Materials and shipments were caught in limbo while properties and their students had to wait for deliveries on a drastically expanded timeline. Fortunately, those challenges have greatly subsided, according to most industry experts. Freight costs have fallen below their pre-pandemic rates, providing some relief for furniture manufacturers that rely on overseas shipments. However, savvy student housing experts are taking the present moment to review …

October 17, 2023

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Do’s and Don’ts for a Smooth Custom-Furniture Experience: Case Studies Shed Light on Best Practices

by Sarah Daniels August 30, 2023

Properly scheduling job site deliveries and services can prevent days of delay and added costs that arise when pivotal events in a project overlap. Even experienced student housing developers can forget this, not to mention new entrants to the industry, who may have only vague notions of the time and resources required to complete the many construction and vendor tasks that lead up to student move-ins. Just ask Amanda Bowen, director of business relations at Dickson Furniture Manufacturers. This summer, her team arrived on the appointed day to install furnishings …

August 30, 2023

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Dement Designs: Interior Designer Talks Student Housing Trends

by Sarah Daniels June 20, 2023

Interior design can be vital to success in student housing. Marketing can be a joy when a property’s layout, hues and textures consistently wow potential residents during walkthroughs, and when thoughtfully planned and engaging, amenities help close the deal on lease after lease. Equally important is how well the selection of materials, fixtures, furnishings and appliances stand up to daily use and abuse by a student resident population, which can strain everything from exercise machines and outdoor equipment to study room furniture and electronics. To learn what owners and developers …

June 20, 2023

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Why Your ISP Is Key to Smooth Student Housing Turn

by Sarah Daniels June 12, 2023

Moving in residents for the new school year is typically the most challenging season on a student housing manager’s calendar. In a matter of days, arriving tenants transform properties from a state of anticipatory stillness into a teeming hive of carts, boxes and people eager to settle into their units and connect their devices. “Students are sophisticated, high-volume Internet users,” observes Alfredo Zavala, an account coordinator on Pavlov Media’s account management team. “They expect to be connected to the Internet almost before they arrive.” “An Internet service provider that addresses …

June 12, 2023

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