The typical property in AB24
Old Aberdeen and Pittodrie, the University of Aberdeen quarter, where student demand and granite tenements set the rental market.
Area summary
AB24 covers Old Aberdeen, Tillydrone, Seaton, Pittodrie (home of Aberdeen FC's stadium) and the King's College conservation core of the University of Aberdeen. The postcode contains the highest student concentration of any Aberdeen postcode and one of the highest in any UK provincial city.
Housing stock falls into three groups. The King's College conservation area contains 18th- and 19th-century terraced houses and old burgh buildings, several owned by the university or by long-term private landlords. Tillydrone and Seaton are dominated by post-war local-authority stock (terraces and mid-rise blocks), with Right-to-Buy stock now under mixed ownership. The streets around Bedford Road, Powis Place and Spital are dominated by Victorian and Edwardian granite tenement flats, the bulk of the active student-let market.
Demand is driven by the University of Aberdeen (around 14,000 students), its medical school clinical placements at AB25's Foresterhill, and a meaningful share of NHS Grampian early-career staff who rent in the AB24 corridor before moving out to the suburbs.
Pittodrie sits within the postcode but Aberdeen FC has consent to relocate to a new beach-front stadium in the medium term, which when delivered will change the AB24 footprint substantially.
What the data shows
Researched facts
- The University of Aberdeen, founded in 1495 as King's College, has approximately 14,000 students across its King's College and Foresterhill campuses., source
- Aberdeen Football Club received planning permission in 2017 for a new 20,000-capacity stadium at Kingsford to the west of the city; subsequent proposals have shifted towards a beachfront stadium adjacent to AB24, with the final location not yet confirmed., source
- Old Aberdeen is a designated Conservation Area with restrictions on external alterations to the medieval and 18th-century core., source
Buyer notes
- HMO licensing in AB24 is strictly enforced; properties without an existing licence often cannot operate as student HMOs because the local authority limits new licences in already-concentrated areas. Check licence status before purchase.
- Aberdeen FC's stadium relocation timeline is uncertain but a stadium move would alter Pittodrie's noise, traffic and parking profile; price in both scenarios.
- Tenement common-stair maintenance disputes are common in the older student-let stock; ask the seller for the last five years of common-repair records.
The full AB24 data page
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