Commercial Property

How to put to bed the eternal student housing crisis

Government funding for student accommodation schemes is encouraging, but we need to do much more to resolve the university accommodation crisis, writes

Very difficult for students trying to find accommodation

With the release of the CAO results in August each year, students should be brimming with excitement at the new journey ahead. However this year, as with previous years, the dreaded question lingers for students and their parents: “Where will I live?”.

There have been multiple reports of students undertaking long daily commutes, sleeping in hotels and cars or couch surfing, not the student life many envisaged.

Their plight was brought into national focus this ...