Do Toulouse students still manage to find accommodation in the city center?
It is good to live in Toulouse when you are a student. It is the site l’Etudiant which says it after having elected, this year again, Toulouse best student city of the year. They are more than 122,000 young people to have put their suitcases in the pink city. The city is attractive but increasingly expensive to rent also. The students still manage to find accommodation in the downtown ?
Students leave the city center
On leaving ENSEEIHT, an engineering school in the center of Toulouse, the answers are quite unanimous among the students questioned. Paul, in the first year of school, comes from Lyon where he spent his first years of study, he was a little surprised when he arrived in the southwest: “I said to myself that maybe we should have lower prices as the city is smaller than Lyon, except that this is not always the case. It depends on where you live but in the city center it’s hard*”* he let out a sigh.
Ideally Paul would have liked find an apartment near your school to Saint Aubin or Jean Jaurès but with a budget of 500 euros per month it was too complicated. He finally found a little more remote towards Camille Pujol, 20 minutes walk from his school.
At his side his friend, Clément, a student in the same school encountered the same difficulties. With a budget of 400 euros per month, he quickly understood that the apartments in the hyper-center were mission impossible: “these were poorly lit or poorly insulated apartments, so not ideal.”
For this budget he rents a studio in Compans-Caffarelli. Like him they many are a bit off-centre according to Anaïs Renaud, she is a real estate agent at Passion Immo: “the students focus a little on the first crown to Compans, Ramonville or Les Minimes where there is still the metro.”
or make more roommates in the hyper-center
Over the past ten years, the rental market has evolved and the location of student apartments with: “Those who stay in the city center will be the least observant of all or those whose parents have a big envelope” adds Anaïs Renaud.
A few streets away, in the real estate agency Toul’house, Julien Guénassia observed another underlying trend : “For the past four or five years there have been more and more requests for flatshares. Young people keep a certain comfort for affordable prices in the inner city”
On average, a shared room costs 30% less than a studio.