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Why Hong Kong’s student housing market faces race against time

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In the first half of this year, investment in Hong Kong commercial real estate reached HK$24.1 billion (US$3.1 billion), up 56 per cent in annualised terms, according to CBRE data. The education industry was a crucial source of demand, generating HK$10 billion worth of transactions, with many of these deals involving assets for conversion into student housing. At a time when the living sector – which includes traditional rental housing, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and housing for...

First report: Investors home in on Singapore co-living, Hong Kong student housing in Apac’s US$13.8 billion living boom — businesstimes.com.sg, 16d