Is it really worth joining a well-known estate agent and paying their membership fee? Or do these big estate agents catering to students have too many houses to control? Are private landlords better? And why do they treat us like children? One student shared with us a collection of short tales about some bad experiences […]
Estate Agents
The joy of house hunting
It’s everyone’s favourite time of year again. No, not Christmas, it’s time to frantically call every estate agent in town out of the fear of being homeless or being stuck in a damp hell-hole 40 minutes away from campus. Oh, the joy. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about house-hunting, aside from the paperwork, the fear […]
Students queue from 1am for next year’s accommodation…
Students queued from as early as 1am outside Cardens, the estate agents, so they could rent their preferred accommodation for next year. When Cardens opened for business at 9am on Monday (November 7) staff were greeted with a long queue of students. The students had queued for up to eight hours in the cold because […]
Housing fair: too little, too late?
S tudents and letting agencies have expressed concern that the Housing Fair was left too late this year, following “unprecedented” student panic in finding off-campus accommodation for the coming academic year. Jon Carden of Cardens Estate Agents, which had 270 student properties available in November last year, claimed that students who attended the fair on […]