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The National Student Housing Survey is now live!

13 November 2018

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National Student Housing Survey 2018

The survey focuses on your student accommodation experience at university and takes just 12 minutes to complete... and to thank you for your time, they're offering you the chance to win £500 in cash and a weekly prize draw for those that share #NSHS19 on social media, saying that you have completed the survey.

Your feedback allows student accommodation providers, such as Derwent, to review our service offering and, where necessary, make improvements to ensure our properties are a great place ot live and that you're getting a great student expeience.

The survey will be open until midnight on Friday 30 November 2018 and your answers will be anonymous

And because your opinion is really important to us too, we're offering additional £50 Amazon vouchers to some lucky winners who will be notified after the survey closes.

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