The student housing sector experienced a soft landing during the 2024-2025 leasing season following three years of record-setting performance. Yardi Matrix data shows occupancy remained strong even as rent growth normalized, and early signs for the 2025–2026 season reflect a more competitive environment. Fundamentals continue to diverge across markets, influenced by a weaker conventional apartment sector, shifting enrollment patterns and a supply pipeline that is increasingly concentrated at large public universities.

Join Yardi Matrix for an in-depth analysis of the latest performance indicators and the emerging themes shaping student housing heading into 2026. You’ll get a data-driven overview of sector fundamentals, including market-level insights across the Yardi 200 universities. Key topics will include:

  • A concise assessment of enrollment growth, highlighting another year of solid gains and the shifting roles of international and out-of-state students
  • An overview of 2025 preleasing, occupancy and rent trends, including how weakness in the apartment market is pressuring student housing in select metros
  • Supply trends and forecasts, covering declines in off-campus development and where future off-campus and on-campus supply is concentrated
  • Capital markets insights, including transaction volume, pricing and the key participants active in today’s student housing sector

Don’t miss this opportunity to stay informed with timely analysis, expanded datasets and forward-looking perspectives from the Yardi Matrix research team.