Urbanest Australia is looking for a new owner after it was put up for sale by M3 Capital, with the market already teasing a potential AUD$2 billion price tag.

The student housing market is "good for investment" in 2019, a new study by StudentMarketing confirmed, with demand constantly outstripping supply in Europe as the continent becomes more and more popular with international students.

The UK student housing market is predicted a boom in 2019, increasing the sector's value to £53bn, according to James Pullen of Knight Frank. At least 29,000 beds are expected to be built.

StudentMarketing has unveiled a 2018 update of its 2017 Amenities in Student Housing report showing that increasing attention to community cohesion is now a hallmark of purpose-built residential accommodation, among other trends.

The Irish government has launched a National Student Accommodation Strategy in a bid to curtail the country's massive shortfalls in the supply of available bed spaces for domestic and international university students.