GENERAL NEWS
THE Albanese government’s move to cap international student visas and help relieve demand pressures on the heated housing market would only save the...
The Student Accommodation Council’s report, Beyond the Visa Cap: Why Restricting International Students Won’t Solve Australia’s Housing Crisis, also shows the country’s...
International student enrolments will be capped at 270,000 in 2025, the Albanese government announced in August, bringing the number of...
Australia’s private rental market has been crushed by demand amid a severe lack of supply, and while September may have marked the early stages of a much...
The report suggests the government’s caps on international students would result in $4.1 billion in lost GDP, and could see 22,000 jobs lost, representing 6% of the...
Victoria has the highest share of international students at 7% of renters, followed by NSW and Western Australia at 6%. Queensland and South Australia both sit at 5%, while...
The report found the development of new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) had kept pace with the growth in international students – since 2015 the growth in...
Around a quarter of the country’s international students (184,000) live in university accommodation and other arrangements, while 14% live in private PBSA – equating to...
8,000 rooms ready to be filled, more on the way
Student Accommodation Council executive director Torie Brown said for such minor housing gains, the government would be better looking at ways...
The Student Accommodation Council surveyed its members and found 8,000 available PBSA beds at the beginning of semester two this year...
Instead of unfairly blaming international students for the rental crisis, governments at all levels need to work together to expedite and accelerate student-only housing...
Singapore’s Centurion has just secured $228.5 million from multiple financial institutions to fund the development of a Macquarie Park purpose-built student accommodation...
Australia’s largest owner and operator of PBSA, Scape, in September opened the first of its $1 billion five-building precinct in Sydney, which will ultimately house more than...
On the Sunshine Coast, international architecture practice Plus Architecture has lodged plans for a new PBSA development in Petrie, north of Brisbane in Moreton Bay...