全球房地产开发商瞄准澳大利亚学生公寓市场

Global property developers are circling in on the latest hot property market in Australia: student housing.

全球房地产开发商正在关注澳大利亚最新的热门房地产市场：学生公寓。

As the recent fall in the Australian dollar spurs foreign student numbers, companies from Dubai to China and South Africa are spending big on buying land or high-rise blocks that can be redeveloped to cater to students studying at universities.

随着澳元近期下跌，这倒刺激了赴澳留学生数量增加，来自阿联酋、中国和南非等国的公司正大举收购土地或高楼，这些高楼加以改造后能满足在校大学生的需求。

Education is now Australia's third-largest export after commodities like iron ore and coal, generating about 18 billion Australian dollars (US$13.5 billion) in export revenue in the 2014-2015 fiscal year.

教育行业是现在澳大利亚的第三大出口商品，仅次于铁矿石和煤炭，在2014-2015财政年度中为澳大利亚带来了约180亿澳元（折合135亿美元）的出口收入。

Dubai-headquartered property developer GSA recently made its first foray into Australian real estate--homing in on a city that the country's central bank has warned is at risk of an apartment supply glut.

总部位于迪拜的房地产开发商GSA日前首次进军澳大利亚房地产行业。澳大利亚央行去年警告称，在城市中心可能出现公寓供应过剩问题

Earlier this month, GSA said it would buy privately-held Campus Estates, a student accommodation developer building a 350-bed student apartment in inner-city Melbourne, for A$21 million. The deal is the first step toward a target of 25,000 student beds in Australia for GSA, which started with just over 100 beds in the U.K. in 1991 and now operates in eight countries including China and Japan.

本月早些时候，GSA曾表示，该公司将以2100万澳元收购私人持股的Campus Estates。学生公寓开发商Campus Estates正在澳大利亚墨尔本市中心建设一个包含350个床位的学生公寓。这桩交易是GSA迈向在澳大利亚创建2.5万个床位目标的第一步。1991年，GSA最初在英国只有略高于100个床位，而现在该公司在包括中国和日本在内的八个国家开展业务。

Previously, Australia lagged behind other countries in building student housing. Analysts say that makes it a surer investment bet than residential property. Australia is the third-ranked destination globally for foreign students, after the U.S. and Britain, according to the latest data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

澳大利亚的学生公寓建设之前一直落后于其他国家。分析人士表示，这让投资学生公寓比投资住宅房地产更加可靠。根据经济合作与发展组织的最新数据，澳大利亚是全球第三大留学目的地，仅次于美国和英国。