‘Zoopla for students’ helps university students find better accommodation

This new website saves university students from their biggest nightmare
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Disha Daswaney25 April 2017

Finding a place to live for the first time is never easy. Every university student has the same nightmare – living in a house with so many issues it can be unbearable. When all the better places have been completely booked up it seems as if all hope is lost.

Enter Jack Jenkins, Christian Samuel and Daniel Jefferys, co-founders of University Cribs. The recent graduates have created a platform to help students find accommodation in the easiest way possible. The idea was born after the duo experienced the stress from endless property hunting in 2010.

University Cribs is an online platform that saves students time from looking at multiple agency websites. All of the decent properties are in one place – so it's no longer a race.

The platform has been operating for two years and it now reaches more than 7 million users in 24 university towns. The properties are listed from trusted estate agents that have properties in a convenient location for the students. They have approximately 122,000 rooms on offer.

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Properties listed on the website range from private halls, apartments and houses so students have an overview of their options. Users can type in their city toi narrow it down to the area they would like to live in, adding in price, bedroom, property type and features as extra filters.

Whether students want to live in a studio or a 12-bed penthouse, their dream accommodation is just a click of a button away.

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