Harrison Street, Brandywine Realty Sell 850-Bed Community in Philadelphia’s University City for $197.5 Million

A joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Brandywine Realty Trust has sold Evo at Cira Centre South, an 850-bed student housing community located in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood, for $197.5 million. Keep reading

Harrison Street and MPC team up on European student housing venture

Harrison Street Real Estate Capital has agreed to acquire six student housing properties in Germany from MPC Capital. The transaction establishes a new European student accommodation joint venture between the two companies. Keep reading

CPPIB, GIC double down on student housing with $1bn deal

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC are continuing to expand their US student housing platform with a $1.1 billion portfolio acquisition, the firms said Wednesday. Keep reading

Harrison Street completes two self-storage transactions

Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, one of the largest real estate investment firms, has completed two recent self-storage portfolio transactions in Nashville and Dallas. Keep reading

Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work 2017

Harrison Street was named Best Places to Work by Pensions & Investments for the fourth consecutive year. Keep reading

JV Starts Construction of 246-Unit Seniors Housing Community in Arizona

LCS, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Ryan Cos. US Inc. have started construction of Clarendale of Chandler, a 262,000-square-foot seniors housing community in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. Keep reading

The Current State and Future of Public-Private Partnerships

This year’s InterFace On-Campus Housing conference brought over 240 leading figures in on-campus housing to Philadelphia late last month to discuss everything from on-campus trends, to targeting Generation Z and achieving excellence in on-campus management. Keep reading

Harrison Street acquires student housing facility, plans renovation

Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, one of the largest real estate investment firms dedicated to the education, healthcare and storage sectors, has acquired The Marq, a student housing facility at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Keep reading

Harrison Street Corrals $1.1bn for Fund VI

The Chicago-based private equity real estate firm closed its latest opportunistic real estate fund above target after less than a year in market. Harrison Street Real Estate Capital has closed its sixth opportunistic fund at its $950 million hard-cap, and brought in $205 million in co-investment capital, the firm said Thursday. Keep reading

Capstone and Harrison Street provide capital to student housing project

Capstone Development Partners and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital have provided equity financing to a student housing facility at Seattle University. The total development cost of the project is about $50 million. Keep reading