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Top 25 Purpose-built student housing operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,518 purpose-built student housing operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 62,633 professional contacts across them, including 17,993 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers purpose-built student housing operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026. Country and city lists for purpose-built student housing operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest purpose-built student housing operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,411 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blending our grassroots expertise, flexible approach and depth of resources, American Campus Communities delivers customized solutions to create the communities Where students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Visit our website: If you are interested in working for Landmark Properties, please visit our career page: Headquartered in Athens, Georgia, Landmark Properties is a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,076 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Unite Group is the UK’s largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), supporting the country’s world-leading higher education sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,017 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Scion Group is the largest owner/operator of student housing communities globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hawthorne Residential Partners was founded by Ed Harrington, Shoff Allison, and Samantha Davenport.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 826 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BUILD UP.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 808 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1989, le Groupe Réside Etudes exploite des résidences avec services, se positionnant ainsi comme précurseur et leader dans les secteurs des résidences avec services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 747 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PeakMade Real Estate, based in Atlanta, GA, is a diversified real estate services company, offering property management, development, and consulting services for conventional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 734 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Windsor Communities is an award-winning property management company that owns and operates over units across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 728 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Yugo is the leading global student housing operator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 667 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UniLodge is the market leader in the operation and management of student accommodation across Australia and New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 627 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the largest property companies in Sweden and by focusing on universities and colleges we build and manage sustainable knowledge environments that satisfy many…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 599 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Campus Living Centres was founded in 1989 with the purpose of assisting colleges and universities and with the planning, design, financing, and management of student housing and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 541 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gecina owns, manages and develops property holdings worth 19.8 billion euros at end-June 2018.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 509 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Campus Living Villages (CLV) specialises in delivering tailored accommodation solutions to over 45 higher education institutions in Australia, the United States and United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 487 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are market leading providers of student accommodation, delivering an unrivalled student experience to domestic and international students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 461 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Moda Group is a vertically integrated investor, developer and operator of large-scale rental neighbourhoods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Woonbedrijf werkt aan wonen Wonen is van onze klant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 431 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi is contouring the concept of premier community lifestyle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Every day, iQ Student Accommodation provides the best home-from-home environment from which university students can confidently make the most of the opportunities open to them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 395 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Campus Apartments, LLC, is one of the nation’s largest providers of on- and off-campus student housing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Legacy Partners is a privately held real estate firm that owns, develops and manages multifamily communities throughout the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 365 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Redstone Residential is a national multifamily and student housing investor and operator headquartered in Provo, Utah.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HOME is reinventing how people rent in some of Melbourne and Sydney’s best neighbourhoods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The UK’s leading provider of on-campus residential and academic accommodation infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: purpose-built student housing operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names purpose-built student housing operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of purpose-built student housing operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name purpose-built student housing operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Purpose-built student housing operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among purpose-built student housing operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for purpose-built student housing operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “purpose-built student housing operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names purpose-built student housing operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among purpose-built student housing operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 17,993 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Purpose-built student housing operators by location
12 lists · largest firstEvery Purpose-built student housing operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in the United States956
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in the United Kingdom387
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in Canada96
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in France81
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in India73
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in Spain71
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in Australia63
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in Germany63
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in South Africa59
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in Italy44
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in the Netherlands28
- Purpose-built student housing operators based in Belgium25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names purpose-built student housing operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many purpose-built student housing operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,518 purpose-built student housing operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
American Campus Communities, headquartered in Austin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most purpose-built student housing operators?
The United States leads with 956 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (387) and Canada (96). Every purpose-built student housing operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most purpose-built student housing operators?
London leads with 118 headquartered companies, followed by Austin (30) and Madrid (29).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 17,993 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,518 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.