Student housing is one "sexy" CRE food group

Colliers International's Dorothy Jackman was among the first to recognize the potential for student housing and build a career around it.

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. November 8, 2019
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MARK WEMPLE — Dorothy Jackman has spent the last quarter century working with student housing, which she considers the most fascinating type of commercial real estate.
MARK WEMPLE — Dorothy Jackman has spent the last quarter century working with student housing, which she considers the most fascinating type of commercial real estate.
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Dorothy Jackman is convinced she works in the sexiest of commercial real estate sectors: Student housing.

“Hands down, it’s the sexiest of all the commercial real estate food groups,” says Jackman, an executive managing director with commercial real estate brokerage firm Colliers International, who runs the firm’s national student housing practice from Tampa.

 

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