全球房地產開發商瞄準澳大利亞學生公寓市場

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

全球房地產開發商正在關注澳大利亞最新的熱門房地產市場：學生公寓。

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.

隨着澳元近期下跌，這倒刺激了赴澳留學生數量增加，來自阿聯酋、中國和南非等國的公司正大舉收購土地或高樓，這些高樓加以改造後能滿足在校大學生的需求。

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.

教育行業是現在澳大利亞的第三大出口商品，僅次於鐵礦石和煤炭，在2014-2015財政年度中爲澳大利亞帶來了約180億澳元（摺合135億美元）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.

總部位於迪拜的房地產開發商GSA日前首次進軍澳大利亞房地產行業。澳大利亞央行去年警告稱，在城市中心可能出現公寓供應過剩問題

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.

本月早些時候，GSA曾表示，該公司將以2100萬澳元收購私人持股的Campus Estates。學生公寓開發商Campus Estates正在澳大利亞墨爾本市中心建設一個包含350個牀位的學生公寓。這樁交易是GSA邁向在澳大利亞創建2.5萬個牀位目標的第一步。1991年，GSA最初在英國只有略高於100個牀位，而現在該公司在包括中國和日本在內的八個國家開展業務。

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.

澳大利亞的學生公寓建設之前一直落後於其他國家。分析人士表示，這讓投資學生公寓比投資住宅房地產更加可靠。根據經濟合作與發展組織的最新數據，澳大利亞是全球第三大留學目的地，僅次於美國和英國。