You’ve been to five boat balls, a post-exam trip to The Stags’ and numerous trips to the common for ice cream. Now it’s time to move out! It can be pretty daunting, so here are a few helpful things to remember… Don’t forget The Advice Centre is always here to help if you have any issues. 1. […]

Property Vibe Ltd have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme, the UK’s largest property redress scheme, for a minimum period of three years. The Flat Agency & Michael Brown Ltd were also expelled, following complaints from local landlords and tenants. Property redress schemes provide independent conflict resolution between tenants, landlords and letting agencies and […]

Last Wednesday, Southampton City Council unanimously passed a motion to call for stricter controls over the use of letting boards in Southampton! HURRAY! To-let signs are currently abused in Southampton! Agencies begin putting them up as early as October (when some students have only been here for one month), and don’t take them down for […]

Housing is an issue that affects almost EVERY student – and here’s how EVERY student can help make it better… just fill in our Vent About Your Rent survey! For students who haven’t heard of it, ‘Vent About Your Rent’ was a survey that SUSU created last year, where students told us about their housing […]

We wanted to update all you lovely readers on what has been happening with SUSU’s housing campaign. Since the last time we blogged we have: Been in contact with the top 10 worst offending Letting Agencies as declared by you who filled in the Vent about your Rent survey (still available to read online or […]

Signing a house contract is a big deal no matter how old or what year you are in. Last year over 64% of people said they were pressured to sign a house due to letting agencies, one comment from the Vent about your Rent survey declared “They said all the good houses will be gone […]