{"id":355300,"date":"2026-07-28T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355300\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:12:08","slug":"usf-area-student-housing-sells-for-21m-as-enrollment-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355300\/","title":{"rendered":"USF-area student housing sells for $21M as enrollment grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U Lake Apartments, a 300-unit student-oriented community near the University of South Florida, has sold for $21.08 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roughly 11-acre property sits along Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, about a six-minute drive from USF, in one of Tampa\u2019s largest concentrations of student housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ULake offers one- and two-bedroom apartments and recently completed communitywide renovations to shared amenities including three resort-style pools, a fitness center, tennis and volleyball courts, a dog park and dog wash station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sale comes as USF continues to support a substantial off-campus housing market: the university enrolled 49,875 students in fall 2025, including 37,517 undergraduates. Its entering class included 3,780 first-time-in-college students, with 2,152 living on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ULake Apartments LLC, a Florida entity with a New York address, acquired the property at 14200 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. from Core SVA Tampa Bruce LLC, according to records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The buyer simultaneously recorded a $22 million mortgage with KeyBank National Association, along with an assignment of leases and rents and a UCC financing statement covering the property and related assets.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U Lake Apartments, a 300-unit student-oriented community near the University of South Florida, has sold for $21.08 million.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-355300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}