La Residence is a brand of Student Housing targeting West Africa. Indeed, ACS is responding to a demand for purpose built dedicated student housing facilities aimed at foreign and local students looking for comfortable and secure housing. The private student housing market in globally a 17.7 billion market that provided growth, resilience and high returns to investors. Yet this asset class is nonexistent in West Africa. ACS Capital has the ambition of building managing a portfolio of 10,000 student housing beds with the next 5 years in West Africa.
Our student housing residences are designed by Archetype, one of the leading architectural design firms in Asia.
Projects are financed through and innovative structure that includes securitization of rental incomes. This approach allows the financing to avoid excessive leveraging through Bank loans which increases cost and risk.