Operations & Management

Student Housing Management: What Running an Off-Campus Student Building Actually Involves

Student housing management is the work of running a rental building on an academic calendar instead of a rolling one: you lease the entire book of beds months in advance, hand over most of the property inside a two-week window every summer, and answer to residents whose parents cosigned the lease. Third-party student-housing operators generally quote 8% to 12% of collected rent to take that over.