Arlington Investors has bought two UK student housing portfolios.

The Jersey-based company spent £124m (€160.5m) on seven assets sold by the Spectrum Housing Association and Sanctuary Students totalling 1,450 beds.

Clients of Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) financed the deal through a privately placed listed bond.

The portfolio – in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Exeter and Gloucester – is Arlington’s third portfolio purchase in the sector and takes its holdings to 7,000 beds. 

George Shweiry, founder and chief executive of Arlington Advisors, said: â€œAs the sector attracts a growing pool of international players, funding sources are becoming increasingly diverse and competitive.â€�

Arlington Investors, created in 2013 to represent family offices in Europe and the Middle East, has now invested Â£450m in the sector.

The company has worked with Campus Living Villages, buying more than 4,500 beds from the portfolio of the former Opal Student Property Group in a £245m transaction in February 2014.

Last September, it bought 400 beds from Goldsmiths, University of London.