It was a little more expensive than halls, I get where you're coming from a good landlord would be fair and would need to cover costs and that's fair enough. It's the scum landords looking to take advantage that's the issue. I just feel it could be easily dealt with if some MP got off their arse.
I don’t get why any student would take a shared house that was more expensive than halls tbh mate. My lad finished this year. In year 1 he paid £125 a week for an en-suite room in a halls flat that had 5 of them in it iirc. He got a shared house with 3 mates from then on and was paying £90 a week including council tax and water rates. You can’t legislate for the market, unless you have maximum fixed rents, which if they were too low, would result in landlords ****ing student rentals off. Most landlords go via a student rental agency and pay them circa 15% + Vat for a managed service btw.
Obviously I don't know where he's based but that seems about the standard price for a room down here. Saying that though I think Soton is near the top of highest private rents.
I would never rent to students. For most of them, going to Uni is the first time they have lived outside of their parents house, and with no one to ride their arses on cleanliness or damage control, things usually get wrecked. My brother went to Portsmouth Uni and was living in a bedsit with his girlfriend, which weren't too bad, but when I went round to his mate Ian's house, which he rented and shared with 4 other dudes, it was like something from How Clean is Your House.....****ing disgusting!
There was an attempt to make the law stronger to protect tenants from landlords. The Tories, most of whom have landlord listed in their official income declarations, voted it down.
