PHILADELPHIA—After more than a year in the planning stages, ground has broken on a $100-million student housing community on the site of the former John Wanamaker School here.

HOUSTON—Dinerstein Cos.’ Sterling University Housing has recently received LEED for Homes Gold certifications from the US Green Building Council for four of its student housing properties.

Mere months after making its debut in the market, Corvias Campus Living has entered into an agreement to build its first student residence facility.

A 1.5-acre site that currently houses a former Ramada hotel, rental car facility and garage here will house a new student housing complex by next summer.

With the elections behind us, let's hope that at least some of the uncertainty that plagued that market has been alleviated.

Just next door to the Big Apple, New Jersey’s commercial real estate sector does very well for itself, with billions of feet of office, industrial, retail and multifamily space. The brokers that handle leasing and sales in the diverse market also do a good job of holding their own—if deals closed in the state this past year are any indication. The editors of Real Estate Forum took stock of the brokers who were responsible for…

TUCSON—Brokers from Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services have recently arranged a pair of student housing transactions that amount to nearly $90 million for properties bought by Education Realty Trust.

LOS ANGELES—In a complicated deal that brought two CBRE groups together, a Southern California student housing community has changed ownership to the tune of $200 million.