16Rooms available
Crown Place, Portsmouth
0.1 mi from centre5 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +4 more
Rooms available
From
£178/week
UK13 stays listedFrom £178/week1 universities
Student accommodation in Portsmouth
4 stays in Portsmouth
4 matching places in Portsmouth
16
Gym on-site
42Rooms available
Stanley Studios Portsmouth
0.4 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +6 more
Rooms available
From
£250/week
19Waitlist only
Catherine House
0.1 mi from centre1 room type
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- Parking
- +8 more
Waitlist only
Pricing
On enquiry
9Waitlist only
Europa House
0.7 mi from centre9 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +9 more
Waitlist only
Pricing
On enquiry
Start with your university
Pick a university and see the buildings around it, with the walk or the ride to campus on every one.
Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Portsmouth
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Portsmouth
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
City centre and Guildhall
The university's own ground, so teaching and the blocks share the same few streets. Next to the station, and built around the Guildhall rather than a campus green.
- Stanhope Housefrom £192/week
- Catherine Housefrom £210/week
- Crown Place, Portsmouthfrom £178/week
Fratton and Milton
North east of the centre with Fratton station in the middle, terraced and markedly cheaper than Southsea. Where a lot of people go once they have seen one year's rent.
- Stanley Studios Portsmouthfrom £199/week
Old Portsmouth and Gunwharf
The historic harbour and the waterfront flats beside it, the most expensive addresses on the island. Spectacular, and not where the student market lives.
- Europa Houseprice on enquiry
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Portsmouth actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Portsmouth Central Library
Public study space in the Guildhall area, beside university buildings and central accommodation.
- Southsea Common
A broad seafront open space within walking distance of Southsea and the university quarter.
- The Hard Interchange
Rail, bus and ferry connections beside Portsmouth Harbour, useful for Gunwharf and Old Portsmouth.
- Albert Road
Southsea’s main independent shopping and food street, surrounded by shared student housing.
A few Portsmouth buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- Trafalgar Hallunder 0.1 miles
Closest to University of Portsmouth
- St James Street, Portsmouthfrom £149/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Europa House15 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Portsmouth
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Portsmouth is built on Portsea Island, and almost everything else about living here follows from that. It is one of the most densely populated places in the United Kingdom, there is no room to spread outwards, and leaving means a bridge or a train. The University of Portsmouth is spread through the middle of the city around the Guildhall rather than sitting on a campus, so most students are within walking distance of teaching whether they planned to be or not.
New to booking student accommodation?
Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
Other student cities in the UK
Comparing options? These are the other cities in the UK where most students on our shortlist are basing themselves.
Getting around Portsmouth
The island is small enough that cycling covers it end to end in about half an hour, and the seafront route is flat and separated from traffic. Portsmouth has three useful stations: Portsmouth and Southsea for the city centre, Portsmouth Harbour for the Isle of Wight ferries and Gosport, and Fratton for the north east. First and Stagecoach buses run the length of the island. London Waterloo is around an hour and three quarters and Southampton under an hour. A car is a liability here, because parking on the island is scarce and mostly permit controlled.
Universities in Portsmouth
Frequently asked questions
- 10 buildings in Portsmouth publish a starting price, from £149 to £260 a week, and half of them start under £195. Most of the difference is area and room type rather than one or two outliers. Each figure is the cheapest room in that building, so compare the room lists rather than the headline.
- Everything we list in Portsmouth is in City centre and Guildhall, Fratton and Milton, and Old Portsmouth and Gunwharf. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- Nearly all of them: 11 of 13. The remaining 2 publish nothing either way, which is not the same as charging extra, and each property page says which of the two it is.