Finding quality student accommodation has always been a problem but the huge success of private student halls in recent years has come as a surprise to many. We have highlighted before on Privatehalls.co.uk that the growing demand from students for top-quality accommodation has led to major investment in new purpose-built student properties.

We regularly write about the advantages of a student living in private halls and we were taken with a recent blog from a student who has enjoyed their first year in such accommodation. In their article, the student explains why private student halls are much better than living in student houses.

The growing popularity of private student halls in the UK has been underlined with news that investors are piling into the sector. Private residential halls for students have become something of a recent phenomenon with growing numbers of young people deciding to live in better quality accommodation.

With increasing numbers of students now going to the UK’s universities, private student halls are growing in popularity but there is some confusion about them still. One of the issues is that because universities offer their own halls of residence for students for their first year, many parents apparently believe that private halls are also only for first-year students.

The question of what students are looking for when they need a property to rent while undertaking their studies has been revealed in a new report. Entitled ‘What Students Seek’, it questioned students around the UK to find what they consider to be most important when considering which property to rent.