The University of London Housing Services Property Platform allows you to advertise your property to our registered students and staff from our  federation members and subscribing colleges.

Students will be able to use our property platform (website) to search for their accommodation and to communicate directly with a landlord via the platform, or via contact details you have chosen to share. Our platform will give our students confidence that all registered landlords’ properties have valid safety certificates in place, and the proof of ownership checked.

For landlords, the platform will facilitate finding a tenant as well as allow you to track how your property listing is performing.

Our Property Platform is a low-cost way for landlords to advertise properties to students from 25 different London-based universities. You can list as many properties as you like.

To review our prices, please visit our platform.

You can also pay extra to highlight or feature your properties. Highlighting gives an advert a prominent background, and Featuring moves it to the top of the search results page and lists it on the main landing page.

Costs (per property, per month):

Highlighted property: £15

Featured property: £60

To register on the Platform, visit househunt.london.ac.uk

To register on the property platform, you will need to meet the following requirements:

Agree to abide by our Code of Good Practice for Landlords. The Code can be accessed here.

Provide us with copy of a valid Gas Safety Certificate for each of the properties you wish to advertise.

Provide us with evidence of your ownership of the property, or permission to let if you are not the owner. 

Provide a copy of the Energy Performance Certificate for each of the properties you wish to advertise.

Provide a copy of the Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) for each of the properties you wish to advertise.

We are unable to offer legal advice to registered landlords. We also cannot advise you on the amount of rent to charge for your property. For general information on renting to students, see our Renting to Students page.

You can find information on your obligations as a landlord on the links below:

Renting Your Property (England and Wales)

National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA)

LandlordZone

We ensure a student has a registered university email address, or has valid student ID / an offer letter, to verify their status as a student at one of our registered federation members or subscribing colleges. You can find the full list of those here.

For university staff members, we collect photo ID and staff ID or a letter offering employment.

Please note, our ID checks are purely to check for student or staff status and do not include a full reference nor do they cover a landlord’s legal obligation to carry out ‘Right to Rent’ checks on tenants.  

The property platform is only available to students and staff of our  federation members and subscribing colleges.

Prospective tenants can use the platform to get in touch with you directly with enquiries, or you can choose to share your contact details with them.

You are welcome to use your own agreement and we have also made our own template agreements available for downloading which can be found here.

Yes. You will have statistics available to you on the dashboard on your account showing the number of views on your advert.