{"id":65447,"date":"2025-05-08T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=65447"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:08:11","slug":"returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Returner&#8217;s accommodation rates spike to new highs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among other reasons, it seems more financially viable to remain in Purpose Built Student Accommodation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For returners, the process seems much easier than \u2018house hunting\u2019 too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially within the short period of time where students are expected to find a house, it becomes more likely that people will be saddled with incompatible living styles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, returners&#8217; accommodation is often amongst freshers rather than having their own building. There is often a stark difference between a fresher who may not have a demanding workload, rather than a Masters student in their final year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can result in issues such as a lack of noise control particularly around finals season or before big deadlines. Whereas the stakes are much higher for a returner, most freshers are more concerned with student life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rates of returners in PSBA increasing\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rjXp8dDr9e4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose Built Student Accommodation organisations are finding there are more returners with every school year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":65514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,103],"tags":[38,467,131,1831,305],"class_list":["post-65447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story-3","category-watch","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-students","tag-south-yorkshire","tag-student-accommodation","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Returner&#039;s accommodation rates spike to new highs - ShefNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Returner&#039;s accommodation rates spike to new highs - ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Purpose Built Student Accommodation organisations are finding there are more returners with every school year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-08T12:04:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-08T12:08:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1126\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jasmine Pegg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jasmine Pegg\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jasmine Pegg\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b31a4c1ca5caba6b528da90f44c3ed6b\"},\"headline\":\"Returner&#8217;s accommodation rates spike to new highs\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-08T12:04:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-08T12:08:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\"},\"wordCount\":146,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Sheffield\",\"Sheffield Students\",\"South Yorkshire\",\"student accommodation\",\"video\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Top Story 3 - Home Page sub 2\",\"Watch\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\",\"name\":\"Returner's accommodation rates spike to new highs - ShefNews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-08T12:04:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-08T12:08:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b31a4c1ca5caba6b528da90f44c3ed6b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png\",\"width\":1126,\"height\":570},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Returner&#8217;s accommodation rates spike to new highs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"ShefNews\",\"description\":\"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b31a4c1ca5caba6b528da90f44c3ed6b\",\"name\":\"Jasmine Pegg\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c727ac9f17fc09aa0ca27d2515371f24d18c22ed5b1325ac00346a94f92d245?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c727ac9f17fc09aa0ca27d2515371f24d18c22ed5b1325ac00346a94f92d245?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jasmine Pegg\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/joa23jp\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Returner's accommodation rates spike to new highs - ShefNews","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Returner's accommodation rates spike to new highs - ShefNews","og_description":"Purpose Built Student Accommodation organisations are finding there are more returners with every school year.","og_url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/","og_site_name":"ShefNews","article_published_time":"2025-05-08T12:04:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-08T12:08:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1126,"height":570,"url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Jasmine Pegg","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jasmine Pegg","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/"},"author":{"name":"Jasmine Pegg","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b31a4c1ca5caba6b528da90f44c3ed6b"},"headline":"Returner&#8217;s accommodation rates spike to new highs","datePublished":"2025-05-08T12:04:44+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-08T12:08:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/"},"wordCount":146,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png","keywords":["Sheffield","Sheffield Students","South Yorkshire","student accommodation","video"],"articleSection":["Top Story 3 - Home Page sub 2","Watch"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/","name":"Returner's accommodation rates spike to new highs - ShefNews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png","datePublished":"2025-05-08T12:04:44+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-08T12:08:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b31a4c1ca5caba6b528da90f44c3ed6b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-08-124105.png","width":1126,"height":570},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/returners-accommodation-rates-spike-to-new-highs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Returner&#8217;s accommodation rates spike to new highs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/","name":"ShefNews","description":"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b31a4c1ca5caba6b528da90f44c3ed6b","name":"Jasmine Pegg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c727ac9f17fc09aa0ca27d2515371f24d18c22ed5b1325ac00346a94f92d245?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6c727ac9f17fc09aa0ca27d2515371f24d18c22ed5b1325ac00346a94f92d245?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jasmine Pegg"},"url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/joa23jp\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65554,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions\/65554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}