About Us
Innovative Student Housing was founded July 2010 by three industry leaders with a clear ambition to create a new, best-in-class service company to serve student housing investors. The founders left executive positions within the industry convinced investors should receive a much higher return on investment capital and fees for operations. The goal was to leverage their experience in managing over 34,000 beds on 90 campuses to create an entirely new level of service to investors. As a result Innovative provides an end-to-end suite of services ranging from sourcing high value acquisition opportunities to growing NOI through management and then assisting in the disposition process.
The principals at Innovative Student Housing have over 40 years collective experience and have served investors in the following ways:
- Sourced over $500 million of student housing assets for investors
- Developed $200 million of new student housing developments
- Managed over 34,000 beds on 90 campuses
- Underwritten $3 billion of student housing assets for investors
Since Innovative Student Housing is relatively small we are able to give investors and their properties a remarkably high level of attention. We form a true partnership with our clients because we are staffed sufficiently to ensure a high level of service and collaboration. Our 'report card' will matter much more to us, as a smaller firm, than it would a large company.
As a new company, Innovative Student Housing has the opportunity to bring true innovation to property operations without being encumbered by legacy systems, values, or approaches. For example, we have chosen to have both the accounting and management software on the same platform to avoid common operating errors from manual data entry between systems. This allows for a much more efficient and innovative back office support system for your property with technology such as on-line leasing and a host of other new services.
Innovative Student Housing has decades of industry experience and a large network of vendors, knowledge of over 90 markets, a long list of potential sellers, potential property employees, and other contacts that investors can leverage to optimize their portfolio value. We take the Best Practices within the industry and merge them with Best Practices derived from Fortune 500 companies to ensure the best value for our investor portfolios.