Is the price of accommodation right?
The best value accommodation is to be found in new-university towns, according to a new survey. While the cities playing host to red-brick universities, such as Liverpool and Manchester, are still among the UK’s most affordable, towns such as Middlesbrough, home to the University of Teesside, and Pontypridd, where the University of Glamorgan is based, offer students the best value, the report shows.
Accomodationforstudents.com, a search engine for student accommodation, surveyed the rent rates of more than 52,000 properties in 73 cities across the UK …