Um, a new survey revealed student rent prices in Newcastle have increased by 45 per cent

Students are no stranger to extortionate prices (anything costing over free is too much for us), but a new analysis for 2024 has revealed that rent in Newcastle has increased by 45 per cent in the last four years.

NatWest’s Student Living Index revealed that the average rent has shop up from £359 to £522 a month, which is shocking considering the state of some of the student houses in Jesmond.

Students of Newcastle are ready to fork out an arm and a leg to live in Jesmond, but 2024 wants another leg, apparently.

It is no surprise rent has increased (thank you, cost of living crisis) but the extent of the numbers are truly shocking.

The data collected from NatWest’s annual student survey prices of rent in 2020 have been compared to prices of rent in 2024 – and the increase is sickening. Including the cost of university owned accommodation, private student accommodation and renting shared houses near university, literally nowhere is safe.

It could always be worse though (apparently) – as Newcastle ranked 15th out of 24 Russel Group universities that were included in the data. That means some poor student in some poor place is paying MORE to live in the same mess as us. Let us be glad of their despair today x

Just kidding, our thoughts and prayers are with the students of Cardiff University and Queen’s University Belfast, who happen to be paying DOUBLE in 2024 than 2020.

It’s no lie that cost of living has continuously shafted us students, but the reality is truly something else. Why are we depriving poor students of the joy of living in a Jesmond rat den? Instead sending them to a more cost friendly and functional house in Sandyford?

That is no fun.

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Hope you enjoyed this depressing read xx. At least it was free.