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Student accommodation finance in Berkshire
Funding to build, buy, refinance and operate purpose-built student accommodation across 1 university town in Berkshire.
19,000
Full-time students (HESA)
6.5%
South East rental growth
3 students/bed
Students per bed, UK avg (Savills)
We arrange student accommodation finance across Berkshire, from development finance and conversion funding through bridging and refinance to long-term investment loans. We work with developers, PBSA operators, investors and owner-operators, matching each scheme and operator to the lenders that back the format.
Berkshire sits in the South East student housing market. Brighton, Oxford, Reading and the southern university towns combine high rents with constrained supply. Choose a town below for its HESA student data and local market context, or talk to us about a scheme anywhere in the county.
Finance
The finance we arrange in Berkshire
The structures we use across the PBSA lifecycle, alone or together.
Student accommodation acquisition and investment finance
Senior investment debt to acquire a standing or operational purpose-built student accommodation scheme, or an asset let to an operator, sized on the income it produces and the yield it commands. We arrange and place the debt with the lenders that understand PBSA.
Student accommodation development finance
The facility that funds a ground-up build, a conversion or a change of use into a purpose-built student accommodation scheme, drawn in stages through construction and repaid on completion, stabilisation or sale.
Forward funding and forward commitment for student accommodation
The institutional structure that lets an investor buy a student accommodation scheme before it is built, fund construction in stages and take the completed asset, while the developer delivers the scheme without carrying long-term debt.
Student accommodation bridging finance
Short-term bridging finance when speed matters: a site acquisition, an auction purchase, a planning play, a pre-development buy or a chain-break, refinanced onto development or investment debt once the longer-term plan is in place.
Student accommodation stabilisation finance
The facility that carries a newly completed student accommodation scheme through lease-up, from practical completion to the occupancy and income a long-term investment lender wants, replacing development debt and reducing the cost while the scheme matures.
Student accommodation investment term loans and mortgages
Long-term investment debt on a stabilised, income-producing student accommodation scheme: the commercial mortgage or term loan that holds the asset, sized on the rental income it produces, the operator and the lease or nomination structure behind it.
Student accommodation mezzanine finance and JV equity
The subordinated capital that sits behind the senior loan to stretch the capital stack on a student accommodation development, lifting total leverage and cutting the cash a developer must commit, through mezzanine debt, preferred equity or a joint-venture equity partner.
Student accommodation refinance
Refinancing your student accommodation to release equity from rising value, exit development or bridging debt onto a long-term investment loan, reprice onto better terms, or restructure a portfolio.
Student demand
The university towns of Berkshire
HESA records around 19,000 full-time students across these towns, of whom roughly 6,000 are international. The towns with the deepest demand bases, the markets a PBSA developer or investor weighs first.
| Town | Full-time students | International |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | 19,000 | 6,000 |
Source: HESA, Higher Education Student Statistics 2023/24 (approximate, CC-BY 4.0). Figures rounded to the scale HESA publishes.
By town
Student accommodation finance by town in Berkshire
Each university town has its HESA student data and local market context.
Accommodation
Student accommodation we fund across Berkshire
Every format is built, let and underwritten differently. We know which lenders back each one.
Funding student accommodation in Berkshire?
Send us the scheme and the operator and we will come back with a view on fundability and likely terms.