To help housing providers better meet that pressure, UCAS has developed a product, designed to forecast accommodation demand from 1st year undergraduates, over the next five years.
Called University Accommodation Insights (UniAI), the product will help support councils, private sector accommodation providers and universities in redressing the balance of accommodation supply.
We have worked closely with universities and colleges, through focus groups, to understand the views, requirements and the benefits this could offer the sector. Our plan is to bring a Beta version to a group of commercial student accommodation providers, by the end of the year. This will provide us with further important feedback on the product and how it can support the sector.
Our overall aim is to support a more informed and productive process between the private sector, universities and local councils, to help meet the increasing demand for student accommodation.
If you would like to know more about this, or have any queries, please let us know by emailing enquiries.uniai@ucas.ac.uk