The American Model Abroad

Student housing is increasingly becoming a global business. While we are just at the start of lending American student housing ingenuity to projects abroad, foreign investment has participated for some time in student housing investments here in the United States. At the same time, a number of U.S.-based investors are seeking to deploy capital abroad, where purpose-built student housing is practically in the embryo stage. Keep reading

Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work 2016

Harrison Street was named Best Places to Work in the Alternatives Managers category by Pensions & Investments for the third consecutive year. Keep reading

Investors Strike $150 Million Deal for Senior Residence

An investor group has paid about $150 million for a senior residence on New York’s Upper West Side, with plans to upgrade the facility and provide assisted-living and memory-care services. The Northwind Group, Harrison Street and the Engel Burman Group bought the 239-unit, 16-story art deco building at 305 West End Avenue. Keep reading

Real estate offers safety amid Trump-win volatility

Real estate offers investors a consistent long-term return in the volatile market environment the election of President-elect Donald Trump has ushered in, Chris Merrill, co-founder of Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC, said on Friday. Keep reading

Largest campus housing project in USF history unveiled

The largest public-private partnership in the history of the State University System – a new student housing project called the Village that will be home to more than 2,000 students. Keep reading

Morningside House Senior Living Portfolio Sells

A seven-property, assisted living and memory care portfolio has been acquired for $186.25 million by an affliliate of health care real estate investment trust (REIT) HCP Inc. Keep reading

Looking Abroad in Response to Our Student Housing Crisis

Over recent months, the reality of Dublin's accommodation crisis has hit home once again as students have struggled to find accommodation for the year. Keep reading

Harrison Street backs student housing JV

Chicago-based Harrison Street Real Estate Capital has teamed up with an Alabama-based developer on its latest student housing project, PERE has learned. The private equity real estate firm is providing capital for the development of a mixed-use student housing project at the University of South Florida. Keep reading

Illinois State strikes up new property relationship with Harrison Street

The Illinois State Board of Investment has approved its first commitment to Harrison Street Capital, making a $50m (€44.6m) commitment to the Harrison Street Real Estate Partners VI fund. Keep reading

Secrets of My Succession

The president and chief executive of Chicago-based private equity real estate firm Harrison Street Real Estate Capital is only in his mid-40s, but already he has been thinking about succession planning. Keep reading