New Market Analytics Solution Delivers Critical Data for Student Housing Investors

The student housing arena presents special challenges to investors. Unlike with conventional housing, the data you need to make decisions about building, buying, selling, holding or upgrading assets is often contained in various silos that are hard to access and consolidate. This includes data about changing submarket economies and rents, student body sizes, enrollment trends, typical rent budgets and expectations, and competing properties with their respective amenities, concessions, strengths and weaknesses. Along with practical information such as proximity to campus, current occupancy by floorplan and bed, seasonal turn and other student-specific details.   Now, RealPage – the premier source of multifamily market data – has introduced a market analytics solution specifically for the student housing industry. RealPage Market Analytics Student Housing is packed with the kind of data that drives more profitable decision making for every stage of the investment cycle, presented clearly and comprehensibly. So you have a wealth of actionable information at your fingertips, without having to wrangle the data and make sense of it yourself.   The Market Analytics Student Housing platform has taken the robust amount of data already housed within Axiometrics, supplemented it with additional layers of knowledge, and packaged it all in a much more user-friendly and functional platform. As an acquisitions person focused on specific assets and markets, the ability to customize is a huge value-add and time saver in my day to day. Melanie Phelps Vice President of Acquisitions, Student Quarters The facts that matter RealPage Market Analytics Student Housing comprises the most comprehensive and granular student housing data available. Data is presented all the way from the national level to the room level, including every level of detail in between. And it goes all the way back to 2013. In other words, the data is both broad and deep....