Student halls investment

[cittigirl]

Has anyone invested in rooms in student halls?. Seems like a good investment but wondered what it's like in reality.

What is it specifically that you feel makes it seem like a good investment? And what is your appetite for risk like, and your capacity for losing your investment? Please don't be drawn in by an eye-catching "8% per annum guaranteed in the first two years" type of headline without digging beyond that to see the details of the small print and the (lack of) substance.

Personally I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole unless I owned the whole building and had some long-lease type arrangement with a local university, but then that's a totally different ballgame.

That's kind of why I'm asking sunseed to see if anyone has invested in one before.

Where I live the ones they are constructing are just standing empty. I live in a big university city too. Student numbers are dropping due to Brexit uncertainty. You'd be better off investing elsewhere (in my laymans knowledge)

Yes good point donajimena thanks.

You can buy funds that concentrate on that market, I’d go that route.

I’d doubt there’s much of a secondary market for selling your asset. Just look at the parking spaces situation. Goodbye capital if you bought one.