Wonkhe SUs · The 2026 webinar box set
Bonus: How to approach university rent negotiations
In this recording we look in detail at how to approach university rent negotiations. We cover the information to gather and some of the arguments universities use to justify increases, and look at the things SUs have used to get a fairer deal for students. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- How to prepare for and approach university rent negotiations
- The information and benchmarking data to gather beforehand
- The arguments universities use to justify rent increases
- How to interrogate cost, inflation and affordability claims
- Tactics SUs have used to secure a fairer deal for students
Things to read
- How to approach discussions on university rent setting (the explainer)
- Nothing going on but the rent – video version with example papers
- Student housing policy presents choices that the sector should grasp
- When did decent student accommodation become a "luxury"?
- Who broke the student housing market?
- Unipol Accommodation Costs Survey
- BUFDG guide to Understanding University Finance
- £3.7m rent reduction for students from disadvantaged backgrounds (Liverpool Guild)
- What would an "assertive" partnership with a university look like?
- Comparing the financial help that universities give to students (in England)
- Everything SUs need to know from the UK Student Accommodation Report for 2025
- Accommodation on Wonkhe – tag archive