United Kingdom student housing:398 sites, 104,209 beds.

398 sites as of 22 October 2026, with 398 placed on a map and 314 sourced figures and 29 recorded deals. Coverage: 398 of 398 sites carry a source link and 398 of 398 are on a map. This counts the sites we have recorded, not every student housing site in the United Kingdom, and it grows as coverage grows.

Greater London, with 73 of the 398 sites tracked (18%). Next: North West (54), Scotland (52), Yorkshire and the Humber (49), East Midlands (34). Coverage: counts are sites tracked, not a census; regions that rank lower are in the workspace.

The three regions with the most sites, Greater London, North West, Scotland, hold 179 of the 398 sites tracked (45%). Coverage: this is the spread of the sites we track, which may differ from the spread of all student housing sites in the United Kingdom.

By sites tracked: Unite Students (90), iQ Student Accommodation (62), Student Roost (48), Homes for Students (42), Empiric Student Property (32). This ranks by sites tracked, not by beds, so a ranking by capacity or area can put the same names in a different order. Coverage: the 5 named hold 274 of 398 sites tracked; a site is listed under the operator its source names, and where none is named it is not attributed.

Operating: 102,523 beds. Planned or under construction: 1,461 beds. Operating means a site that is open; planned means announced, planned or under construction. The two are different statuses and are never added together. Coverage: beds is reported for 291 of 398 sites; a site with no reported figure adds nothing.

In Greater London, beds is 14,204 beds operating and 1,461 beds planned or under construction. The split by site is as of 20 October 2026. Coverage: reported for 38 of 73 sites in Greater London; the rest add nothing.

By sites tracked in Greater London: iQ Student Accommodation (21), Unite Students (19), Greystar (10), Scape (6). The split by site is as of 20 October 2026. Coverage: sites in Greater London whose source names no operator are not attributed to anyone here.

Unite Students has 90 sites tracked: 88 operating and 2 planned or under construction. Largest regions: Greater London (19), Yorkshire and the Humber (12), North West (11), Scotland (11), West Midlands (10). The split by site is as of 20 October 2026. Coverage: Unite Students is the largest operator by sites tracked, and these are the sites we have recorded under its name, not necessarily everything it runs.

29 deals in the United Kingdom, each with its date and a link to the page that reported it. The full list is in the workspace after sign-in. Coverage: these are deals reported by the pages we read, not every transaction in the market.

Figures link to the page that published them; 398 of 398 sites here carry a source link. Publishers behind this market's data include Unite Students, iQ Student Accommodation, UniAcco, Student Roost, Accommodation for Students. How a source line reads, and what is left out, is on the methods page. Coverage: a site without a source link is listed as recorded and its figures are not shown as sourced.

The public figures on this page are as of 22 October 2026. They change as sites, sources and deals are added. Coverage: this is the date of the latest public export of counts, not of every record in the workspace.