Member

My experience of dealing with the private sector landlords in Bristol was that the students often occupied the property only for eight or nine months of the year—from September until perhaps May, or whenever they were studying for their final exams, when they would have cleared off, gone home and got their brains into gear to take the exam. In between, there might be refurbishment, because sometimes there is quite a lot of attrition on the condition of the property, but they were often let out to people in foreign student summer schools, which filled all the halls of residence in places such as Bristol with those sponsored by overseas educational bodies in other jurisdictions.