Professional partners

The teams behind every Stonehill scheme

Architects, engineers, advisers, contractors and operators across Italy, Austria, Germany and Luxembourg.

Professional partners

A small circle of long-standing consultants, contractors and operators.

Design development is outsourced to a limited number of third-party practices with whom Stonehill has built close working relationships over many years. Their experience in student accommodation is carried from mature markets into each new city, while local architects, engineers and advisers ensure every scheme meets precise planning and regulatory requirements.

Stonehill works with London-based architects tp bennett on the design concept stage of each project. Local architectural practices in each market then refine the design and navigate local planning regulations through to consent and delivery.

Bologna — Laude Living

Concept architect
tp bennett

Architecture, interiors and planning practice with substantial student accommodation experience; provided the concept design.

Executive architect & engineer
Open Project

Bologna-based practice that developed the scheme from concept, handling technical design, coordination and construction supervision.

Project manager
Drees & Sommer

Project management, technical due diligence and management of furniture, fittings and equipment installation.

Main contractor
CMB

Italian construction contractor responsible for building the residence.

Interiors contractor
Cesare Roversi

Delivered the common-area interiors.

Operator
CRM Students / Beyoo

Operated the residence under the Beyoo brand.

Turin — Taurasia Living

Concept architect
tp bennett

Credited with the concept design for the Turin development.

Architect & planning
Giuseppe Bard and Danila Voghera

Urban planning, building design, procedural coordination and supervision of construction.

Project manager
Drees & Sommer

Project management through design and construction.

Main contractor
CMB

Constructed the 575-room residence on the former Diatto site.

Operator
Beyoo

Associated with the operation of Taurasia Living.

Vienna — Dresdner Straße 107, THE FIZZ

Architect
Wehdorn Architekten

Vienna practice with expertise in conservation, redevelopment and new buildings; designed THE FIZZ.

Main contractor
HABAU

Austrian construction company awarded the contract for the 633-room development.

Operator
International Campus / THE FIZZ

Student accommodation investment and operating business; operates the residence under THE FIZZ brand.

Vienna — Dresdner Straße 109, Rioca

Operator
i Live / Rioca

Apartment and hospitality operator accommodating short and longer stays under the Rioca brand.

Passau — Haitzinger Straße

Architect
Friedl & Partner Architekten

Local Passau practice named as the architect for the scheme.

Building physics
GN Bauphysik Finkenberger + Kollegen

Acoustics, thermal performance and vibration; assessed railway vibration and associated noise.

Ground engineering
Geoplan GmbH

Ground investigations, soil testing and foundation-related assessments.

Landscape & ecology
Garnhartner + Schober + Spörl

Landscape impact and ecological compensation calculations for the planning documentation.

Padua — Via degli Scrovegni

Urban design
Cino Zucchi Architetti — CZA

Milan practice credited with urban design for the wider PP1 / ex-gasworks redevelopment.

Urban planning
Menegazzi Michelon Architetti Associati

Padua practice providing urban planning consultancy for the PP1 redevelopment.

Landscape architect
PAISÀ — Stignani Associati

Ravenna-based landscape consultant for the wider redevelopment.

Building designer
Plannings S.r.l. / Rossana Cauchi

Named as building designer on the student residence drawings for Stonehill Scrovegni’s plot.

Development and financing partners

Stonehill also works with Pegasus Capital Partners, its Vienna development and financing partner; Invel Real Estate, which announced an initial €18 million investment in the Milan and Padua projects in June 2026; and Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, which provided senior development debt for the Vienna student residence.

Investors and funding counterparties

PATRIZIA, Ardian / Rockfield, AEW, Allianz and M&G Real Estate appear as buyers or funding counterparties on Stonehill projects. See Capital Partners ›

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About Stonehill

Stonehill is a leading developer of purpose built student accommodation and modern living across central and southern Europe.

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€265.9m
Total transaction value across four completed schemes
1,900+
Student rooms delivered
1,360
Rooms in the development pipeline

Stonehill’s capabilities extend from origination through the development phase and into operations and management.

Capital Partners

Long-term investment structures for institutional partners seeking stable, premium PBSA income across Europe.

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Development Activity

Milan, Passau and Padua — 1,364 new rooms under way for the 2028/29 academic year.

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Professional partners

A small circle of long-standing consultants, contractors and operators.

Design development is outsourced to a limited number of third-party practices with whom Stonehill has built close working relationships over many years. Their experience in student accommodation is carried from mature markets into each new city, while local architects, engineers and advisers ensure every scheme meets precise planning and regulatory requirements.

Stonehill works with London-based architects tp bennett on the design concept stage of each project. Local architectural practices in each market then refine the design and navigate local planning regulations through to consent and delivery.

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Development and financing partners

Stonehill also works with Pegasus Capital Partners, its Vienna development and financing partner; Invel Real Estate, which announced an initial €18 million investment in the Milan and Padua projects in June 2026; and Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, which provided senior development debt for the Vienna student residence.

Investors and funding counterparties

PATRIZIA, Ardian / Rockfield, AEW, Allianz and M&G Real Estate appear as buyers or funding counterparties on Stonehill projects. See Capital Partners ›
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Our strengths

Stonehill has acquired a valuable, pan-European overview of student requirements in different markets. The group has a strong development management capability, based on the broad international experience of its construction managers over many decades.

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Headline transactions and counterparties

€265.9m combined headline transaction value
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Capital relationships

Who we work with

Stonehill incorporates different financing and exit strategies for its developments, often utilising its long-standing relationships with senior lenders, JV partners and institutional purchasers to complete and exit its projects.

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First mover

Via Sebastiano Serlio, Bologna

Stonehill was a first mover in the Italian market with the development of the 532 room landmark asset at via Sebastiano Serlio in Bologna. Serving the University of Bologna, it is among the tallest buildings in the city. Stonehill operated the building for a number of years before exiting the project to Ardian / Rockfield in February 2025.
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Sustainability

ESG & carbon neutrality

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With rapidly changing attitudes towards achieving zero carbon impact, Stonehill consistently delivers projects with high energy efficiency and minimal embedded and operational carbon emissions. It also makes commercial sense to minimise overhead costs and optimise the net operating income, as well as contribute to long-term decarbonisation.

Stonehill deploys a wide range of active and passive carbon saving technologies. These include high levels of insulation, roof mounted PV panels and smart building monitoring systems. In all of its developments where technical conditions allow, Stonehill deploys heat pump technology – either GSHP or ASHP systems, providing both winter heating and summer cooling.

Stonehill aims to achieve LEED Gold Certification for all its projects, whenever possible.

In the German market, Stonehill aims to build to Effizienzhaus 40 standard to reduce environmental impact.

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Media coverage archive

Press articles, partner announcements and project features

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Matthew Cartisser · Founder

Decades of experience across different European commercial real estate asset classes that built Stonehill.

Stonehill was founded by Matthew Cartisser, a Cambridge law graduate who has been involved in the property sector for most of his professional life. One of the first developers to enter the Polish real estate market in the early 1990s, he pioneered one of the nation’s first business parks in Warsaw before turning his focus to student accommodation and contemporary living.

Drawing on the maturing UK market for student housing, Matthew led Stonehill’s expansion across Europe — from Vienna’s Dresdnerstrasse residences, among the first modern PBSA schemes in Austria, to landmark projects in Bologna and Turin, and a growing pipeline in Milan, Padua and Passau.

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Matthew was one of the first Western developers to enter Poland after 1989, pioneering Wiśniowy Business Park in Warsaw — six office buildings and one of the nation’s first business parks — and in Katowice he set up the development of Silesia City Center, a 951,500 sq ft shopping centre built on a former coal-mine site that became one of the largest retail destinations in the country.

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Stonehill’s head office is in Luxembourg, with dedicated local teams in London, Munich, Milan, Bologna and Vienna. Zoom in to each city and click a marker for the address and contacts.
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