| Comment | It's still a hard time to be looking - I know that there's still a backlog of students (particularly international) who have been living in hotels/short term lets and are still trying to find a place, so you're still competing with them
Covid fucked over the rental market in a big way because the lack of students for 2 years meant a lot of landlords quit the market or moved to non-student lets, so it's all had a big knock-on effect, especially this year when student numbers have surged due to deferred entry
I don't have data to back up this assertion, but alongside housing availability I also believe underoccupancy is a part of the problem - it seems to be really common now for people to live alone in 2/3 bed flats (either by choice or because it's all that's available to folk coming here alone) where previously those same properties would have housed an entire family (or, going back a bit, several generations of the same family) |
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