Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Technology: Students Want It, Developers/Owners Must Offer It via GlobeSt.com

Though much of RealShare Student Housing focused on issues ranging from acquisition opportunities (they're definitely out there near flagship, secondary and tertiary campuses) to financing (lenders and equity partners seem like this sector), one trend repeatedly focused was that of technology as a student housing amenity. The concept was so important, two of the May 15 presentations at the Four Seasons Resort delved into the need for enough bandwidth to power the variety of devices students haul to college.

"When I was in college, I had a personal computer. That was it," said Real Estate Forum editor Sule Aygoren Carranza, who moderated the afternoon panel appropriately entitled "Adapt or Die: How Technology is Changing the Student Housing Business."

But according to panelists Luca Finocchiaro, Greystar's director of real estate-student living and Richard Holtz, CEO of InfiniSys Electronic Architects, the wheelbarrow of broadband-hungry items students cart to college these days include televisions, receivers, gaming systems, Apple TV – and cell phones, computers, laptops, tablets . . . and so on.

Read more...GlobeSt.com - Technology: Students Want It, Developers/Owners Must Offer It - Daily News Article

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