Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester & York parents

[SecondTimeUniMum]

Got a student in a private rental (shared house) in one of these cities?

Can you tell me how much they pay for their room, and if that is with or without bills? Shortlisting for UCAS now and I'm having a bit of a wobble about how expensive some of DC2's possible choices are going to be live in!

DC1 is in Cardiff and pays only £85/week without bills. They only get a bit over minimum maintenance loan but all their accommodation and most of their bills are covered by that, at least. First year halls were more expensive but only for 40 weeks so it worked out pretty much the same.

With moving on, 3 and 4 year degrees make a difference. Someone working or on a year abroad slightly loses touch and gets a bit left out. They have to be proscribe to stay in the loop because year 3 student friends have all left!!

It is worth thinking ahead. My son's girlfriend worked a full year between school and university to save up to help with the cost.
As I probably said earlier Oxbridge can also be cheaper than elsewhere - short terms, living in college for the 3 years, vacating rooms in holidays keeps it down.
Durham where my father and uncle went and my children's cousin is not too bad (I am from Newcastle and there is certainly cheap areas of housing commutable there and to Durham).

Also those on the maximum loan do receive £9701 outside London. If you rent is £500 a week (£6k a year) that does leave some money over for food, bills etc.

Newcastle is not cheap, all the students want to live in Jesmond. DD paid 110 this year, older property, poor maintenance and damp. She is paying 125 a week excl. next year as more of them are sharing so they are moving (many properties are more expensive than this). Rental prices have shot up this year. Swansea where DS1 was, is around £100 per week

DD was paying 85 a week plus bills in 2018, in the very salubrious student area of Hyde Park, Leeds 😂

no idea what it is now, but you can find student rooms in shared houses on Rightmove to gauge an idea. Burley Park, Headingley, Woodhouse & Hyde Park are the student areas.

Swansea has gone up too - looking at £119 per week for next academic year (excluding bills)

Basically DS and his group should have the house! Hooray at £8700 plus bills. Apparently the landlady has said that other groups are trying to gazump them by promising to pay more but she is happy to go with them if the paperwork is done in timely manner and 7 out of 8 have already submitted all and the final one is about to so hopefully smooth from now on in.

If you are a Bristol parent please don't gazump DS!