Your Student House - a student accommodation search engine for students - gives you some tips on finding student accommodation in Liverpool while studying at the University of Liverpool.

While studying at the University of Liverpool you have a lot to contend with when organising your student accommodation. You need to choose the people to put up with for (at least) the next academic year. As well as this you need to decide whether your budget is enough to pay the monthly or weekly asking price, have you enough left over for electricity, gas, water, Internet fees, food, going out… The list goes on. Is your chosen place in a good location, are you going to have any problems with the landlord?

These are all concerns you may or may not come across once you have found and chosen your new student home for the next few years. Therefore all this can be done without the extra worry of – hang on a minute – will I actually be able to find a suitable place to live! There are plenty of student homes, houses, privates halls, rooms and flats throughout Liverpool, therefore there is no excuse not to except anything other than the best located, best value and most suitable accommodation.

The key to finding suitable student accommodation in Liverpool is to build up a list packed full with possible places to live. Never just make do with the first one you come across, unless of course it is a £20 per week new build on the doorstep to your department building. Therefore to build up this list quickly we have given you some tips on where to go to find available accommodation in Liverpool. Once you have a good number of properties on your list you can contact the landlords and arrange a viewing.

Here are some tips:

• Have a walk around your city and find a couple of spots that would be a perfect location to live. There may be notices in the windows or a TO LET sign. If there are take a note of the contact details and move on. Within half an hour you may have a list of 5 – 10 already.

• Take advantage of your universities accommodation office. They will have a list of private landlords with accommodation available.

• Talk to 3rd year students who are most likely moving out of their student house when they graduate, leaving some spaces for you and your mates to fill. This way you can get first hand information about the quality of the accommodation and how great the landlord is.

• Or if you would prefer to save your walking energy for the pub-crawl later, go online to YourStudentHouse and view accommodation for the University of Liverpool. Here you can view a full page detailed description of student accommodation with pictures and contact details for each landlord. Allowing you to get a good idea about the property and whether it will meet your needs. You can then easily contact the landlord using the phone numbers provided, or send a quick email to arrange a viewing or request further information.

  Steven Bradshaw wrote this article on behalf of YourStudentHouse. YourStudentHouse.co.uk is a UK wide student accommodation search engine, which lets students search for accommodation in their university area. Students can also read the University City Guides and discuss accommodation and student life in the Student Forum.