Student Housing Insight

There are only a couple of events each year in the off-campus student housing industry that bring all of the industry leaders together. The premiere event for the industry is the Interface Student Housing Conference in Austin, TX.  Student Housing Insight took the opportunity to sit down with several industry executives to discuss their thoughts on the future of the industry and the challenges tha...

In this episode, Wes & Gretta dissect what may be behind the recent dip in YOY preleasing velocity in the US market.  Is it related to the FAFSA delays?  Is it pushback on recent rental rate increases?  Is there an enrollment decline ahead?   Included in this episode is a recorded session from April 11th's ShopTalk that also dove into the questions around negative YOY preleasing velocity.  The...

In this episode, Wes shares a conversation from March's ShopTalk regarding the current status of P3 student housing.  Joining the conversation is Jason Taylor of The Annex Group, Brad Shaw from Greystar, and Jeremy Doss of Rise. This episode is sponsored by The Guarantors.  For more information on how The Guarantors can minimize bad debt for your property or portfolio, go to https://bit.ly/3WmNsqa...

Imagine a world in which student housing properties don't have to rely on parental guarantors to approve an application or have to go after a parent if their student defaults.  That is exactly the type of world The Guarantors are creating for their student housing clients. In this episode, Wes sits down with Aaron Victorson & Micah Hollingsworth to discuss how The Guarantors are making life ea...

Are your student housing properties ready for Turn 2024?  Is this your first Turn as a manager or supervisor?  Then this is the perfect episode to get you and your team ready for this summer.  Mat Windsor from The Turn Company joins Wes as a special guest co-host to talk about some of the external influences that may impact Turn this summer and then Wes sits down with Piper Schlink , portfolio dir...

In this Behind the Biz episode, Wes sits down in the studio with Don Flick, principal of BSB Design , to talk about their unique process for bringing student housing projects from idea to reality. If you are looking for an architecture firm for your next student housing development or rehab, get in touch with Don today: dflick@BSBDesign.com For more information on Student Housing Insight, email us...

The largest annual event in the off-campus student housing industry is the Interface Student Housing Conference in Austin, TX.  2024 marks the 16th year of this conference and is being teed up to break its previous attendee records.  This year's conference will be held at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin on April 24-26th.  In this episode, Wes sits down with Rich Kelley from Interface Conference...

In this special episode, student housing veteran Whitney Kidd of The Preiss Co . joins Wes to discuss her recent return to work from maternity leave and how the industry is responding to the challenge she gave at the Interface Student Housing Conference in 2022 along with founders of the W. Collective .  Whitney and Wes also offer some advice to expecting parents (and the co-workers of expecting p...

In this episode, Wes sits down with the student housing division president at Asset Living , Stacey Lecocke , to talk about her career journey in student housing.  Listen to find out how one day in a Texas courtroom changed everything about the career path she thought she was on. This episode is sponsored by Opiniion.  Find out more and schedule a demo at www. Opiniion.com/SHI Questions or comment...

One thing is for certain, this year's NFL season and the Super Bowl was unlike any year before.  Love her or hate her, Taylor Swift illustrated how her influence could breathe new life into an organization that has been under a lot of heat in recent years.  But how does that relate to Student Housing?  It doesn't... but we did find a way to tie the discussion into the use of NIL and micro-influenc...

In the newest installment of SHI's "Profiles in Student Housing" series Wes sits down with Matt Maxa , the COO of Article Student Living .  Matt shares his career journey and what led him to make a career out of a part-time job he took while attending the University of Central Florida.  Matt also shares what's ahead for Article Student Living, and he shares the newest addition to his shoe collecti...

In this episode, Wes shares a recent discussion from a ShopTalk session that he had with Tonya Creamer from Oxford International .  Tonya is Oxford International's VP of Higher Education for the U.S. and has an extensive background in international student modality and is often the person establishing housing partnerships for students utilizing Oxford International.  That experience not only bring...

In this episode, Wes sits down with Dan Myers, the CEO of Dojo Networks.  Dojo has been at the forefront of providing internet access distribution to off-campus student housing for over 20 years.  Dan has seen the maturation of not only the asset class, but also the students' demands for high speed internet and network services.  Wes and Dan discuss the journey Dan has been on from starting as a s...

In this episode, Wes and Gretta give a recap of LeaseCon+TurnCon.  Additionally, Wes shares the recording of the panel he moderated on centralized services that included panelists from Cardinal Group, Scion, Granite Student Living, Varsity Campus & Realpage.  If your company is considering implementing centralized services (or if you are scared centralized services will replace your job), make...

In this episode, Wes sits down with Krystle Coleman , VP of Business Operations at the Scion Group , to discuss her career journey in student housing.  Krystle tells the story of how a visit to a leasing trailer for a new development at Purdue University was the start of a career she never imagined she would pursue.  She also gives some incredible insight into Scion's push for centralization of le...

In this episode, Wes discusses stats on how the '23 pre-leasing season ended and what it may signal for the next pre-leasing season.  He then shares a segment from a recent ShopTalk panel where he and Charlie Matthews from College House discuss the same topic with panelists Jenn Cassidy from Cardinal Group, and Will Baker and Chris Epp from Walker & Dunlop about their thoughts from the perspec...

This fall offers several opportunities for student housing professionals to attend a conference, or 2, or 3... In this episode, Wes sits down with the hosts of 2 of those events which are based in the US, and provides a preview of several other international conferences that are scheduled for this fall. This episode is sponsored by BSB Design . Links to the conferences discussed in this episode: S...

This episode is part of SHI's "Behind the Biz" series where we highlight a company that is making a big impact on the student housing industry. In this episode, Wes sits down with Leap's COO, Michael Davies .  Leap's rent guarantee product naturally attracted international students trying to find housing in NYC.  So in 2018, Leap began taking their product nationwide and it has been a huge hit wit...

In this episode, Wes shares a panel discussion he moderated in July at College Pad's Annual Off-Campus Summit held on Georgis Tech's campus in Atlanta.  The panel was made up of off-campus and P3 providers as well as College House's COO, Leonard Bresler .  Other panelists include Mark Miller of Book & Ladder, KrisAnn Kizer of Pierce Education Properties, and Brad Shaw of Greystar.   For more i...

ESG is impacting every industry and the student housing industry isn't exempt.  But where is it headed?  In the short term in the US, everyone is looking at the SEC's forthcoming Climate Disclosure Rule that came out last fall but has not been finalized due Supreme Court ruling between West Virginia and the EPA.  But what's beyond that???  For that, we need to look at the UK's Net Zero initiative....

In this episode, Wes sits down with Jessica Nix , the Chief Marketing Officer at Campus Life & Style , to talk about her career journey in student housing.  She discusses how the lure of free rent at the new off-campus property while in college provided the entre into student housing, how her career eventually evolved into launching her own consulting business, and how consulting ultimately provid...

In this episode, Wes sits down with special co-host, Jessica Mancuso of Asset Living, to talk about her role as Director of New Development Marketing and what prepared her for the position.  Wes & Jessica then present the audio recording from SHI's recent webinar called, "How to Market & Lease New Developments" featuring panelists from Landmark Properties, Cardinal Group, Threshold Marketing, and...

In this episode, Wes sits down with Casey Petersen , COO of PeakMade Real Estate , to talk about his career journey in student housing.  Who were the folks that mentored him?  What positions prepared him for what he does in his current role?  Those are just some of the details we find out in this interview.  Casey also talks about the challenges ahead for the industry and how off-campus profession...

The Turn Company was launched by The Cardinal Group in January of 2020 and promised to change the way student housing professionals approach the summer TURN process.  In January of 2023, Cardinal merged TurnCo into Cardinal's residential services division.  In an announcement in early May, former Cardinal EVP, Eddie Moreno, and former TurnCo President, Mat Windsor, announced to the world they had...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the US student housing industry made some huge strides this past academic cycle when it comes to helping understand our student residents and their mental wellness by creating the College Student Mental Wellness Coalition.  In this episode, we replay a recent interview from ShopTalk's May webinar that happened on May 11th.  Joining the conversation with Wes...