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Student accommodation rents in Scotland’s cities continue to soar

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Student accommodation rents in Scotland’s cities continue to soar

Students in Glasgow could be faced with paying close to £5,000 more for accommodation than their counterparts in Aberdeen in the next academic year.

That’s according to new data from property adviser CBRE, which analysed the sector in the UK’s 30 major university towns and found that rents in Scotland’s two biggest cities are to rise significantly in the 2024/2025 academic year.




Glasgow students are facing an 18% hike on average for an ensuite room – from £200 to £235 a week. A student renting an ensuite room for 51 weeks in Glasgow would pay an average of £11,985.

This leaves no money for food and other essentials, even for a student on the maximum loan and bursary package available in Scotland, which is set to rise to £11,400 for 2024/2025. Average studio room rents are predicted to rise by 25% from £235 to £294 – totalling £14,994.

In Edinburgh, an en-suite room or cluster room currently averages £199 a week, a figure expected to rise 8% to £214 in the new academic year, while average rents for a studio will increase 7% from £285 to £304. A student renting would pay £10,914 for a cluster room or £15,504 if they were renting a studio.

However, it is a very different picture for Aberdeen, with the average rent for a room in a shared flat remaining stable at £138 per week. This equates to £7,038, leaving £4,362 to live on. Studios, however, are expected to jump 13% from £183 to £206.

Dundee is reversing the Scottish trend, with an 8% drop in the cost of renting an ensuite room from £172 to £159 a week. A studio costs £238 a week, up 6% on the previous year.

Constrained supply and a fall in the delivery of student beds to the market have exacerbated rental growth across the UK. CBRE has predicted that by 2028, the market could face a potential shortfall of 620,000 student beds relative to the 36,000 beds currently identified as being delivered in that period – assuming the student population grows by 1% per annum for the next three years.

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