Students Dominate the September Rental Market

26 September 2024

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Students Dominate the September Rental Market

 

  • As a new academic year gets underway, young people across the country are busy leaving the family home and moving to new cities.
  • HESA (Higher Eduation Statistics Agency) estimates 2.9 million students were in higher education in 2022/23, 22% more than 5 years before.
  • A large proportion of students will be accommodated in the private rented sector. In fact, one in five renters moving into new homes in September will be students.
  • In some key student cities (for example Bath, Exeter, Nottingham, Oxford), more than 40% of new renters in September will be students.

 

Source: Dataloft Rental Market Analytics by PriceHubble, average September figure for 2017-2024, HESA.

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