Cash-Cow into the Purse of Malaysian Property Investors: Students Housing Investment

• Authors: Ghani Zubairu Abubakar , Suleiman Noralfishah
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Growing demand for higher education (HE) and increasing students enrolment in higher education institutions (HEI) has been a global issue especially in the last three decades and housing the growing student population has become a dilemma for all concern HEIs stakeholders. Globally increasing demand for HE and enrolment has long been not corresponding with student housing supply. Most HEIs provide housing accommodation for a small proportion of their total students’ population while the majority depend on private rental sector for their alternative housing. In most of the HEIs neighbouring community residential houses were rented out to students. These houses are not sufficient to accommodate the teaming student population because the market is dominated by traditional small-scale private developers. However, with the continuing expansion and demand for HE, increasing enrolment and increasing students housing demand, the study highlighted and suggested for private investors to pull up and dig into student housing investment. This will ameliorate and fill the shortfall created by inadequacy of HEIs housing provision. Student housing investment is a resilient market, lucrative venture and guaranteed cash cow.

Keywords

EN

student housing; higher education institutions (HEIs); student population; student enrolment; student housing demand; private housing market

• Publisher: Altezoro s.r.o. (Slovak Republic) and Publishing Center "Dialog" (Ukraine)
• Journal: Path of Science
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 1013-1022

Dates

published

2017-08-24

Contributors

author

Ghani Zubairu Abubakar

• Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University

author

Suleiman Noralfishah

• Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.22178/pos.25-5