Student lets portal emerges as serious challenger to Zoopla and Rightmove

A website that claims to be the next Zoopla or Rightmove of student lets has won a place in the Top 100 UK start-ups list, joining famous businesses on the AXA insurance-sponsored list such as Deliveroo and notonthehighstreet.com. Founded three years ago but launched in October 2016 the Cardiff-based property portal offers a single platform for students to search for properties in 25 cities and enables them to contact agents directly to arrange viewings. University Cribs says it is planning to have student lets available in all the UK’s 64 student cities before the start of this year’s academic year in September. It also says University Cribs has 120 agent clients across the UK just seven months after launching and 150,000 followers via its social media accounts including 139,220 on Facebook. The company also says it has 122,172 rooms to rent advertised on its www.universitycribs.co.uk site and an audience of over seven million mostly 18-24 year olds through its social media reach. Student lets What’s most notable about the company is the youth of its founders and team. The trio who started up the company – Daniel Jeffreys, Jack Jenkins and Christian Samuel (pictured, left to right) are all under…

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