Educational Workshop: Building & Funding Student Housing

About This Workshop

A two-hour interactive workshop designed for real estate investors, developers, and capital allocators who want to understand—and invest in—the purpose-built student housing (PBSH) asset class.
 

Led by Jared Hutter, Co-Founder at Aptitude Development, one of the country's leading Tier-1 student housing developers and operators. Jared and his team develop and operate purpose-built student housing through their in-house brand, The Marshall, delivering high-performance residential assets at flagship public universities across the U.S.
 

Tuesday, May 12: 12:00pm–2:00pm ET
 

The session will be recorded and shared with all participants via Circle.
 

Over two hours, you'll learn how the PBSH market works, why its economics consistently outperform traditional multifamily, how to source and analyze university-level demand data, and how to evaluate, underwrite, and structure student housing investments. The session includes live case studies from Aptitude's current portfolio.
 

Participants will receive post-course access to Circle, where we'll share recordings, underwriting models, and deal examples.
 

You'll learn how to:

• Understand the PBSH market: what it is, what's driving demand at Tier-1 universities, and why it outperforms conventional multifamily
• Quantify demand using university data: how to access and interpret enrollment figures, bed deficits, and pipeline data to model demand down to the bed
• Evaluate the math—PBSH vs. multifamily: why the same square footage generates 2x the revenue under a student housing program, and how collections, pre-leasing, and guarantor profiles de-risk the income stream
• Assess sites and markets: what makes a location investable—walkability, proximity to campus nodes, zoning constraints, and structural supply barriers
• Underwrite student housing investments: ground-up development and acquisition opportunities using real models from Aptitude's portfolio
• Structure capital stacks and exit strategies: how developers and institutional investors partner on PBSH deals, and why stabilized assets trade at meaningful spread compression
   

You'll leave with actionable insight into how to invest in purpose-built student housing—how the economics work, where the demand data lives, and what separates winning projects from the rest.