Investors last year alone spent $4.5 billion on student housing projects, according to CBRE Group.

USA Today College reports.

For some, off-campus housing means resort-style living

Ashlyn Costa wouldn’t want to live anywhere other than her Downtown Indianapolis apartment complex.

It has everything she could want. There’s a gym, which Costa says she uses regularly. There’s a pool, which is a popular summertime spot for Costa and her friends. There’s also modern furniture, included with the apartment, as well as a first-floor coffee shop just steps from where she’s standing on a sunny spring afternoon.

There’s so much to like that Costa has to pause to consider what she’s leaving out.

“Oh, and the study room,” she says. “We have a study room, too. I forgot about that.”