Green Street Expands Student Housing Data Platform

Investors eyeing student housing assets have a newly expanded study tool.

College House, a destination for specialized data and analytics on the U.S. student housing sector, is officially offering investors and operators direct access to analytics firm Green Street’s investment analytics. The platform expansion launched on Tuesday, a little more than a year after Green Street acquired College House in 2025. 

The news comes amid a complicated cooling period for the U.S. student housing market, according to Green Street’s own 2026 student housing report. Asset values have declined recently due to rising cap rates, while revenue growth is expected to average just 2 percent over the next two years, slightly trailing apartments.

Capital is returning to student housing, according to commercial real estate finance firm Walker & Dunlop’s annual outlook, but is similarly selective, and activity remains below 2022 peaks. Construction starts are slowing and deliveries are highly concentrated, with the market splitting along enrollment trends.

College House users can now tap Green Street estimates tailored to the student housing market within its platform, including key metrics like cap rates, risk-adjusted return estimates, occupancy and supply. The announcement also introduced a proprietary scoring framework, dubbed University Grades, that identifies long-term rent growth potential for nearly 180 U.S. schools.

“This is exactly the integration we envisioned when we acquired College House,” Andrew McCulloch, chief analytics officer of Green Street, said in a statement. “Combining Green Street’s independent research and proprietary valuation framework with College House’s best-in-class data assets, will provide student housing investors a complete toolkit to allocate capital more effectively.”

Time for investors to hit the books.

Emily Davis can be reached at edavis@commercialobserver.com.