An Interview with Student property rating website StudentView

by Startacus Admin
What exactly is StudentView? After listing their Startup on Startacus in our Showcasing space - we were delighted when Tara Annison Head of Growth at the student property rating website approached us to share all...
So tell us a little bit about you..
I'm Tara Annison and I'm the Head of Growth over at StudentView, the home of student reviews. I've recently graduated from the University of York and started out with my own site, very similar to StudentView but around September time we merged with StudentView to become bigger and
So what exactly is StudentView?
StudentView is the student property rating website, we're a platform for students to leave honest reviews about their experiences renting private sector accommodation whilst at university. Whether that's been a good experience or a bad experience, we want to help share this information so that other students know what a property is like to rent ... before they rent it!So how was your own experience renting at university?
Mine was sadly an absolute nightmare! I lived with some girls I'd met in first year and although we all got on, apart from one crazy girl who left, the houses we rented caused us problem after problem! In our house in second year we had a landlord who
So you started StudentView to try and warn others about these dodgy landlords then?
That's one aspect of the site, but we also know there are loads of fantastic and really great landlords and agencies out there so we want to highlight those too! Renting at university can be perilous and mainly it's because there just
How far have you got with StudentView then, are you up and running?
Yes! We've got hundreds of reviews and thousands of students have been on the site which is great. We're going to grow fast and we've been doing a lot of web dev this summer to improve the site and create packages which we hope to sell to landlords and estate agents. We want to work with, not against them to help improve the industry and insure that both students and landlords/agencies get a fair deal.Where do you see StudentView in 10 years time?
I'd love to be a household name, trusted with review like TripAdvisor. I really think there's a need and a gap in the industry for the site and I know that students have a real need for this information so I hope that we'll continue to grow and spread across the UK to help as many students as possible.Anything cool or exciting we should keep an eye out for?
We'll be heading out to Dublin this November to attend Web Summit 2015, Europe's largest tech start up conference and we're one of 2,000 start ups exhibiting. It's really exciting as we'll be joined by around 30,000 attendees and speakers from top tech firms like Google, Stripe and Facebook! Keep your eyes peeled because hopefully we'll be getting some big investment there and be the disruptive start up we're already known to be!Subscribe to our newsletter
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Published on: 19th October 2015
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