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For several years, investors looking for new forms of secure investments have become interested in student residences.

Halfway between classic housing under simple management and tertiary real estate under professional management, investments in student residences imply mastery of its dynamics and its players.

Although low-risk real estate investments are increasingly rare, the student housing market offers good potential. As the number of students continues to increase in many European countries, the need for student accommodation continues to grow. For France alone, there will be around 2.79 million students in 2020*. This number is constantly increasing and is expected to exceed 3 million by 2030.

Services

The branch specializing in alternative investments of Rodschinson Investment puts its experience at your service for an in-depth study aimed at valuing your investments and ensuring the balance of their operations:

  • Carrying out market studies
  • Rental value expertise
  • Expertise of market value
  • Audit of operators
  • Optimization of operating business plans
  • Financial work and rebalancing of normative ratios, EBIT, EBITDA, share of rent on turnover, FTE, etc.

Rodschinson Investment's experts also assist you in carrying out projects to purchase or sell alternative assets via:

  • The sale of student residences
  • VEFA for student housing and residences
  • The search for an operator
  • Negotiation assistance

Rodschinson Investment supports numerous investors in their development strategies in terms of alternative investments.

The experience of its consultants involves both in-depth knowledge of players, developers, investors and operators, as well as precise analysis of sector data.

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Specificities

Student residences are operated and maintained by a professional manager. The investors and the operator sign a commercial lease. Rental income generated by the operation of the residence is transferred quarterly by the operator.

The different types of accommodation:

  • Individual studio, apartment t1, t1 bis or t2
  • T3s, t4s and t5s designed for shared accommodation

The main selection criteria for these accommodations are:

  • A secure and reassuring environment.
  • Services to make daily life easier
  • Additional services: Student residences generally have a gym, parking spaces, a meeting room, collective or individual work spaces, mail delivery and may offer a borrowing service small household appliances.

The advantages for investors:

  • Secure annuity
  • A tax-advantaged investment

Valuation

Student accommodation attracts high demand from investors due to the regular and relatively low-risk income it provides.

Given the regular income of stabilized establishments, the capitalization rate approach or a comparable approach are commonly used valuation methods.

Student housing generates significant demand from investors due to its stable income and relatively low risk.

Given the stable revenues from stabilized facilities, the capitalization rate approach or a comparable approach are commonly used valuation approaches.

IQ Student accommodation or IQ is the largest provider of student accommodation in the UK with over 28,000 beds.

With an occupancy rate of 97%, it generated a turnover of 223 million pounds and a net operating margin of 76.4% in 2019.

In February 2020, Blackstone, one of the world's largest specialist property investment firms, offered £4.6 billion to acquire IQ student accommodation.

It is the largest student housing transaction in the world.

To understand how Blackstone valued IQ at 4.6 billion, we use the cap rate approach.

First, from the annual filing, we calculate the company's annual net operating income

Then we apply the appropriate capitalization rate for those properties. In the pie chart we see that IQ's installations are primarily concentrated in London, with a balance of 48 %s spread across other key Russell Group cities

Using market cap rates, we estimate the effective cap rate for IQ's entire real estate portfolio to be 4.1 %. Applying the derived values we obtain a valuation of £4.1 million.

This seems far from the reported deal value, but keep in mind that this is only the 28,015-bed portfolio. IQ also has 4,000 beds under development that are not bringing in revenue today. At the time of the transaction, 4,328 were under development.

We can assume that the value of these non-operational beds corresponds to their asset value. Proportionally, we value the pipeline at £502 million.

Adding the two values together, we get approximately 4.6 billion, which corresponds to the announced value of the transaction.

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