How to face the Aberdeen property market

Dear first years,

It’s time to panic. The time of year has come once again to bring up the awkward conversations with flatmates and ask yourselves how the fuck are you going to find a property in the AB24 post code?

Our friends in Dundee pay practically nothing and Glasgow hosts the West End beauties for a steal. Comparably, Aberdeen is easily one of the toughest places in the country to find a student home.

So here’s a few helpful hints to get first timers ahead.

1. Look everywhere!!

Start with AUSA website for HMO guaranteed properties then branch out to Gumtree and property websites. Trawl google with every single keyword imaginable. By Easter your most viewed pages should be property related.

New Carnegie kids will have to face the facts that life will never be quite as sweet.

2. Send out polite emails

Revert back to being called Katherine and Thomas in order to sound like someone you would want to rent your house to. Be sure to add in your degrees if you’re studying things like Medicine or Law. Leave it out if you’re a Sports Science student.

Hopefully you won’t end up in the schemy bit behind the library

3. Be smart.

Make sure you’re not scammed by Gumtree ads asking for money upfront. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

4. Ask everyone you know.

Corner 4th years in the library- surely they must be moving out of somewhere desirably close to uni.

Anything would be better than scenes at Hector Boece.

5. Join a sports team

Get pally with the older cool kids- they will likely have an abundance of contacts for you.

6. Become friends with well-off students

Perhaps their great uncle just died and they’re looking to invest their cash-money inheritance in Aberdeen property. Worth a shot.

Contrary to popular opinion, it is feasible to find a property within a 3 mile radius of uni

7. Don’t panic!

Everyone knows of that one person who wasn’t sorted the week before Freshers week. You won’t end up homeless- perhaps you’ll live in the dodgy bit beside the high school but that’s hardly the end of the world.

Good luck to all you house hunters out there.

Lastly, on an incredibly serious note, please PM me with any leads on 4 bedroomed properties xox