Is £150 a week average for student accommodation?

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DD is checking out universities for Sept. 2021. Her first choice offers some amazing looking accommodation, it's more like a chic Scandinavian style hotel to be honest. There's a gym, spacious social spaces, games room and has its own cinema! It's secure and includes all bills and is only a short walk to city centre and lectures. But it's £150 a week! Is this average please?

Is it offered via the Uni Housing Office?

You can check it against the ther places on offer. That sounds like a premium space!

Hi. Haven't checked many if the details, she's just sent me a link with the price. Honestly I've stayed in worse 4* hotels, things have really changed since I was last in halls!

IIRC DS1's first year rent was about £135. This was because he wanted a queen sized bed and an ensuite. The campus also had a shop/gym etc and the block he was in was newly built.

There was much cheaper and less swish accommodation.

I paid less than that in central London in 2013/14. I think lots of uni accommodation has been upgraded and it's easy for students to think that's the norm, but I doubt it's average price no.

To clarify, I mean less for halls but I actually never paid that (I did get up to about £145per week though) for all four years of uni, so a mix of halls and private shared accommodation.

Which city? £140 - 150pw only buys quite basic student accommodation in the South West for example. Northern cities can be cheaper. So if yours has cinema etc, I'm sure there is something slightly cheaper on offer. Just google student accommodation and X city.

D'S was paying 119 pw in Liverpool, en suite, large single room in halls. No on-site gym, though.

DD has a place for September that's around the same price and sounds pretty similar! She gets a 'free' coffee and pastry every morning and the communal space includes a roof top terrace, cinema and karaoke room.

Other cities we looked at cost considerably more for less salubrious surroundings though so we are going with it!

DS pays that for his en-suite room. It's a very new building with good quality fittings

We were lucky to get halls that were £116 a week,they go right up for £170+ for swanky bedsit halls.

In second year accommodation it'll be a massive hike,not looking forward to that. Gulp.

I've looked at everything from £93 to £162. All uni owned, all outside London.

I was at a university in Liverpool and I paid around £126 a week for my student halls. It was fully self catered (so had a full kitchen and dining table) and was en suite. Good size single rooms as well. (It was the most expensive accommodation there but also the best imo)

Whistle73 Where is that?

DD is probably firming UCL at they are about £200
Per week.

3 of my 4 have done uni. 2 are still there.
Anywhere between £98 And £145 Is what we have paid over thebpaat 4 years.
There us dearer ones (And there nirbalways the nicest). We just got lucky with not getting our first or second choice where price was one of the factors for obvious reasons.
The £145 hasn't been the most expensive at all 4 of the unis we have rented halls.

Prices do differ from uni to uni and in our experience we found the best halls at the lowest price was Uni of Birmingham.

Everywhere else seems higher priced.
Over subscribed student towns and cities such as Bristol and Nottingham. Push the price if halls up due to the shortage of accommodation.

That’s about what we’re paying for DC’s accommodation (modern, en-suite, shared kitchen with washing machine, living area with flat screen tv).

That’s on-campus halls, I should say.

My kids pay 97 and 103, uni owned, self catering, shared bathrooms. 150 sounds fair enough if it includes all those extras, but I suspect she can find cheaper if she looks!

DDs was around 250 so that’s good imo

Mine always went for the cheapest available, taking travel into account.

DD paid under £100 for close to her uni in Manchester, four years ago. Was quite scruffy though. DD went cheap to have more money for fun, (student house was about £80 and very grim).

Seriously though, they don’t need en suites. Better a communal shower room with a regular cleaner. And smart new halls tend to have smaller rooms too and sometimes less communal space.

That's expensive.

This year dd is paying £130 per week but that's with a landlady who provides breakfast and evening meal.

Next year she will be in halls costing £119 per week. That's for self catering with en suite. The cheaper £109 per week rooms were sold out.

A studio flat with private kitchen in the same halls costs £137.

The largest studio flats which are generally let to mature students and couples cost £152-156 per week.

DDs was around 250 so that’s good imo

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I remember kicking off cos mine (in 2003) went up from £47 a week to £48 cos we were going thru too much bog roll 😂

Accommodation here on the south coast runs from £135 a week (basic, some shared bathroom) up to £198 a week (luxury) The average I think is about £160 a week for en suite and gym access. This would include a uni bus pass for the academic year as well (£250 if bought separately).

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I can only dream of such a low weekly rent. Very envious !

Bloody hell. I rent a 2 bedroom flat for £98 a week. Didn't realise student accommodation was so expensive!