UK’s open borders boosts student housing market while Australia’s hard Covid-19 measures shut out investments

The student accommodation segment in the UK and Australia, which rely heavily on overseas enrolments, has witnessed vastly contrasting fortunes because of the diverging policies of the two countries in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.The UK’s open borders and the British National (Overseas) visas that offer a path to citizenship to as many as 5.4 million Hongkongers have led to an influx of overseas students, but Australia has seen fewer students from abroad as the government shut its…

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