StuRents

Helps students find accommodation

Marketplace
Renting
SaaS

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Company mission

To help students find accommodation quickly and easily.

Employees

21-100

HQ Location

London, UK

OTTA INSIGHTS

Most candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

38% female employees

18% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take on StuRents

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Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

StuRents enable students to find accommodation. Having been established in 2008, the company has grown organically since then and now lists over 700,000 rooms in over 100 towns and cities across the UK

Unlike other rental platforms, like Rightmove and Zoopla, StuRents doesn't just allow agencies to use their platform. Instead, they also accept private landlords and purpose-built student accommodation operators, ensuring a broad range of options are made available to house-hunting students. Ultimately, this has levelled the playing field for these groups to compete for student tenants

Moreover, StuRents distinguishes itself further by offering end-to-end services on their platform. This ranges from contract signing through to property management and payments

The data generated by the marketing and end-to-end services also allows StuRents to offer industry leading research insights to institutional clients like banks and real-estate investors

Overall, this approach has successfully enabled StuRents to stand out from both the bigger, more established competitors as well as the increasing number of specialist property platforms. Their success is supported by the fact they are now the leading rental platform in the student letting market

Company benefits

  • Company pension contributions (with access to increased company pension contribution after 3 years of employment)
  • Work from home opportunities (maximum 3 days per week)
  • £360 office desk and chair expense policy for remote working
  • 24 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Holiday allocation increased to 26 days after 3 years of employment. An additional day is added thereafter for each additional year of employment, up to 30 days
  • Access to our employee discount platform with over 3,000 exclusive discounts and offers
  • 24/7 counselling advice and information line + 6 therapy sessions
  • Telephone access to a private practising UK GP plus contributions to annual eye tests & flu jabs
  • Up to £650 for Individual Learning & Development after 1.5 years of employment

Company values

  • Continuous innovation
  • Inclusive
  • Fair

Founders

Micheal Rainsford

(Co-Founder)

After graduating from Durham, they spent 5 years as a Commodities Trader at Morgan Stanley, leaving this role in 2014 to work on StuRents full time.

Tom Walker

(Co-Founder)

Tom spent time at PwC and Merrill Lynch following graduation from Durham University and started working on StuRents in 2014.

Mike Lehan

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Mike has been working in Web Application Development for 12+ years. They have a strong desire to train & mentor the next generation of web engineers, and is a regular speaker at meetups & conferences.


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