Newcastle University rent prices have increased by how much?

Students are no stranger to extortionate prices (anything costing over free is too much for us) but these rent prices are seriously unsettling. 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 numbers are shocking. Data collected from NatWest’s annual student surveys, prices of rent in 2020 have been compared to prices of rent in 2024 – and it’s sickening. Including the cost of university-owned accommodation, private student accommodation and renting shared houses near university, literally nowhere is safe.

For our beloved Newcastle, we have seen a 45 per cent increase in price of rent since 2020, from £359 to £522 a month, which is shocking considering the state of some of the student houses in Jesmond.

Could always be worse though (apparently) – as Newcastle ranked fifteen out of twenty-four 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 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.

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