University Gateway Named Top 5 Best Student Housing in Orem, Utah Nelson Partners announces that University Gateway Student Housing Apartments has been named one of the best places for students of Utah Valley University to live in Orem, Utah by MyPlace (Best of: Orem, UT; Top 5 Student Housing in Orem, UT; 2023). Located just…

Nelson Partners Announces Exciting Grand Opening of 800 Block – A New Luxurious Student Housing Community at Utah State University SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Nelson Partners, LLC today announced the exciting grand opening of 800 Block, a new luxury student housing community located next to Utah State University at 777 N…

Nelson Partners sells top 3 of all-time single student housing asset SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Nelson Partners, LLC announces the exciting $203,000,000 sale of Sol y Luna Apartments, a luxury student apartment community located at 1031 N. Park Ave. and 1020 N. Tyndall Ave. in Tucson, Arizona, to New York Investor,…

It shut down university campuses when it should have quarantined the elderly By Patrick Nelson           In 15 years and some 80 deals for investment properties in the student housing market, I have seen how the off-kilter effects of too much government can hurt business.           Forty…

Schools saw a 5% drop in enrollment – but got federal aid worth four times as much. Part Two in a Series By Patrick Nelson           When the first global pandemic in more than a century began spreading around the world in early 2020, the U.S. government mounted a shock &…

Students fled home, took classes online—still had to pay full tuition. First in a Series By Patrick Nelson           The government response to the Covid-19 pandemic was rough on most of the nation’s seven million businesses. Each year 600,000 businesses close their doors, and in the first year of the lockdown…

San Clemente, CA. – For the second time in six months, The New York Times has chosen to write a story about my company, Nelson Partners, called “A Sinking Student Housing Empire,” claiming our “empire” – whatever that means – is “teetering.” I personally have spoken to The New York Times over the past months and I don’t recognize the portrait of my business that is being painted in the paper.

San Clemente, CA – Nelson Partners, a real estate investment firm that sponsors Delaware statutory trust and tenant-in-common 1031 exchange offerings, has purchased Sol y Luna, a 14-story, 977-bed student housing property located adjacent to the University of Arizona, for nearly $200 million.

Aliso Viejo, CA – Nelson Partners Student Housing, a sponsor of 1031 tax deferred exchanges, has sold Auraria Student Lofts located in downtown Denver, Colorado for an undisclosed sum.