Torsion Completes Four Student Accommodation Schemes Delivering 690 Beds

Torsion Group has completed four Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) schemes for the 2025/26 academic year, delivering 690 beds across Leeds, Coventry, Nottingham and York. In a year marked by sector-wide construction, labour, and occupancy challenges, Torsion delivered all four assets in time for September student move-in, demonstrating the resilience and advantages of its vertically integrated model. The completions reinforce Torsion’s position as one of the sector’s most consistent performers, having been named Property Week Student Accommodation Awards – Developer of the Year in both 2023 and 2024.

The schemes include Burley Studios, Leeds; Burnsall House, Coventry; Bridgeside, Nottingham; and Fawcett Street, York. Two were delivered through Torsion’s Invest, Develop, Construct and Operate model, with Bridgeside completed as a third-party construction and operations appointment, and Fawcett Street completed as a third-party construction appointment.

Torsion stands apart as one of the few UK developers with full visibility and control across the PBSA lifecycle, allowing them to deliver schemes even in a challenging market. This integration creates a significant competitive advantage by enabling the team to design for long-term value, manage risk in real time and avoid the fragmentation that erodes both performance and student satisfaction. While traditional delivery models face escalating costs and delayed openings, Torsion schemes, including the four completed in 2025, are consistently delivered on time, on budget and built to outperform for years to come.

 Dan Spencer, Founder & CEO of Torsion Group, said:

“Delivering four PBSA schemes for the same academic year is an exceptional achievement for any business, but achieving this in one of the most challenging construction landscapes in recent years highlights the strength of our integrated model.

By aligning investment, development, construction, and operations, we can increase operational efficiency and value, ensuring our investment returns remain strong and viable in a challenging market. This in turn improves buildability, maintains programme, enhances quality and ultimately creates better long-term-performing assets for our partners and investors.”

From construction to operations, LUNA mobilises seamlessly and delivers sector-leading occupancy. Three of the four schemes were mobilised by LUNA, Torsion’s student and Build-to-Rent operating platform. With a hand-picked, highly experienced senior team and an in-house marketing function built specifically for PBSA and BTR, LUNA is embedded from the earliest project stages, so operational, design and leasing considerations are aligned from day one. This integration drives efficiency, protects whole life value, and ensures each scheme launches with momentum.

LUNA achieved 99 per cent occupancy across its operated PBSA portfolio for the 2025/26 cycle.

Louise Bena, Managing Director of LUNA, said: 

“Our role starts long before a building completes. Being integrated into the design and development journey means we can shape spaces that genuinely support how students live, study and connect from day one.

Mobilising three new buildings in the same year, whilst delivering a 99 per cent occupancy rate across our operated portfolio, is an achievement the whole team is incredibly proud of. It reflects the strength of our operating model, the quality of the product and the consistently high satisfaction levels we achieve with our student communities.

Because we work closely with each asset and stay deeply involved throughout its lifecycle, we can act quickly, adapt to market conditions and make decisions that add real value. That agility, combined with the wider Torsion Group model, is what enables us to deliver the outcomes students, parents and partners expect from LUNA.”

LUNA currently manages just under 1,000 beds, rising to 1,400 in 2026, supported by a future pipeline of 3,653 beds scheduled through to 2029. Alongside its own pipeline, LUNA is also targeting an additional 4,000 beds through third-party management opportunities.

Torsion Construction and Developments has delivered excellence despite industry-wide pressures, with our teams maintaining programme, safeguarding quality, and navigating complex city-centre logistics and supply-chain challenges to ensure all schemes progressed for September occupation.

Torsion’s momentum across the PBSA and living sectors shows no signs of slowing. With a £1.3 billion GDV pipeline spanning PBSA, Build to Rent and Later Living, the Group’s integrated structure continues to offer partners and investors a rare combination of programme certainty, controlled delivery and proven operational performance.