Now more than ever, colleges and universities are in a powerful position when it comes to sustainability. As long-term owners and operators of their building stock, they steward the entire life of the building from design to utilization — likely
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Lately, the metaverse, crypocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have become more common to hear about and have brought back an excitement I haven’t felt since I was 13 and first logged on to the internet (does anyone else remember the
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SHB asked me to write about what is on my mind. Those that know me the best would agree that this was a big mistake as it won’t be remotely on topic! The onset of COVID was a time of
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In student housing, there is an ongoing movement to utilize best practices of sustainability and conservation in both new and existing projects. “Going green,” is better for both the environment at large and our respective communities. The majority of builders,
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While it has felt like the world was falling apart at times during the past year and a half, the real estate industry realized a tremendous amount of growth and opportunity. One of those opportunities is hotel conversions, which have
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Students are returning to classes and student housing owners are singing the praises of a newish trend that has not only gotten many through the pandemic, but served as a blueprint for the next phase of student housing operations —
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In this time of uncertainty and with the current challenges of cost, schedules and labor in the construction industry, we have seen a large resurgence in prefabrication and modular solutions. While these alternative building solutions are a positive for the
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When the world shut down over a year ago, architects, designers and developers took a collective pause to assess what needed to change in the built environment. A particularly scrutinous eye was paid to off-campus student housing, a sector whose
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It’s been a full year since the onset of COVID-19 across the globe and there hasn’t been a single industry untouched by the pandemic. At first, everyone was challenged daily to adapt to a new reality, way of life and
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Winter storms spread across the U.S. in late February, bringing ice and snow to states not typically synonymous with below freezing temperatures. One such state was Texas, where brutal winter storms caused millions to lose power and pipes to burst
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By: Kevin Larimer and Brandon Buell, Senior Managing Directors of Student Housing at Berkadia Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, confidence fluctuated around the performance and resilience of student housing properties. Understandably, commercial real estate investors pressed pause at the beginning of
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Chicago-based Harrison Street recently acquired a minority interest in a portfolio of on-campus housing at the University of Kentucky in Lexington as part of a newly formed joint venture with Greystar Real Estate Partners. The investment is structured under a
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