Suitable sites for conversion to student housing are dwindling while questions about scalability and liquidity are coming into sharper focus
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenNicholas SpiroNicholas Spiro is a partner at Lauressa Advisory, a specialist London-based real estate and macroeconomic advisory firm. Published: 4:30pm, 27 Jul 2026In the first half of this year, investment in Hong Kong commercial real estate reached HK$24.1 billion (US$3.1 billion), up 56 per cent in annualised terms, according to CBRE data. The education industry was a crucial source of demand, generating HK$10 billion worth of transactions, with many of these deals involving assets for conversion into student housing.
