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The Student House Search
by David Nash                             

 

Is there really a rush to find a house?

Looking for a student house when you've just got to University can be daunting. Many letting agents' 'housing lists' are released around December/January (London's students look for houses between July and September), and if you just got to Uni in October that can be as little as 8 weeks before you feel you have to find a group of friends to live with, and choose a property.

Where to look for a house

Search online

Online resources are growing increasingly popular to find student houses. It's much quicker to search online rather than walking around 10-15 letting agents, and you can in theory search from properties across the whole city to find exactly what you want.

-   Accommodation for students

-   Gumtree.com

-   Flatmateworld.co.uk

University Housing Days

Many universities also run 'housing days', typically in the first term of the year, providing advice on housing. Often other external organisations might be present, such as the police (property safety) and council (landlord accreditation schemes). At many housing days these organisations are joined by a few commercial letting agents (usually those recommended by the universities) - and so you can also begin your housing search at these days. Note that choice will usually be very limited, but you should feel fairly secure that the agent is at the least not the city's cowboy!

The High Street

The high street offers an alternative to looking online as well worth doing. It's pretty likely that you'll be bombared with estate agent leaflets around the end of the year and make sure you keep hold of the numbers.

When looking for a house it's best to look down all avenues (excuse the pun) because that way, you can be assured you will get the best host available and not some grotty dump.

And once you've found a potential house?

Once you've compiled a list of potential houses - whether from online, paper lists picked up, or some other method - you need to contact the letting agent/landlord to arrange a viewing.

In most cases they will take you on a viewing, but in some cases you may just be told to make your own way to the property (this is particularly likely with agents who have the poor quality housing lists discussed above).

 

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