Welcome to the Victoria University Housing Service
The Housing Service is part of the Student Services team. It provides current and enrolling Victoria University students with free and confidential housing information and tenancy advice. Housing options include Student Village, Homestay, Hostels and Apartments, Hotels and Motels and Private Rental.
Note that the Student Housing Services dose not find accommodation for you. Students must take responsibility for finding and booking their own accommodation. International students will need to book their own temporary accommodation before arriving in Melbourne.See www.vu.edu.au/ss/housing for student shared housing and private houses-flats for rental vacancies. These vacancies are updated daily. Students need to ring these vacancies themselves and arrange a meeting time.
To access this housing data-base off-campus please contact the Housing Service (housing@vu.edu.au) for a current password.
The Housing Service also provides students with tenancy advice including lease, condition report, bond, utility, cheaper shopping, co-tenant conflict, repairs and eviction help. You can also register at www.vu.edu.au/ss/housing for a house-hunting buddy and to buy-sell furniture.
Important Numbers
Victoria University Student Housing Service: 61 3 9919 4420
Victoria University Student Village: 61 3 9304 6302 or info@village.vu.edu.au
Victoria Univeristy Sunbury Hall: 61 3 9919 3450 or sunbury.hall@vu.edu.au
Do you know your renting rights? See www.tuv.org.au or Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal VCAT 61 3 9628 9800
House Hunting Checklist
- No family-friends in Melbourne? You need to book casual accommodation before arriving?
- What type of long-term housing do you want?
- Can you afford to live alone or do you need to share? What area(s) do you want to live in? See www.property.com.au and www.vu.edu.au/ss/housing
- How far is public transport and how often does it run?
- Do you want to live with male/female, young/older, local/international, quiet/party, smoker/drinker, vegetarian/meat eater, messy/tidy student(s)?
- How much will your fees, medical and contents insurance, electricity, gas, water, phone, food, transport be a year?
- How much will bond and rent in advance?
- Do you have any references (family friends, teachers, employers, church or club leaders)?
- Share housing questions include what do you like doing and eating, do you like people visiting and staying over, will be share the cleaning, shopping, cooking and bills happen, what happens if I return home overseas in the holidays or wan to leave earlier than agreed?
- What furniture (bed, desk, table & chairs, lounge), white goods (fridge, washing machine, microwave) cooking (pots/wok, can opener etc), eating (cups, plates, cutlery), linen(blankets, towels, sheets, pillows) and appliances (PC, lamp, kettle, toaster, rice cooker, vacuum cleaner) and general (broom/mop, garbage bin, washing basket etc) do I need?
- How far is the supermarket, milk bar, take away, bank, petrol, post office or chemist?
