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OnTheMarket has declared StudentCrowd, a student accommodation portal, as being exempt from the new website's only one other portal rule.

Paul Humphreys, co-founder and director of StudentCrowd, has received notification from a sales and marketing executive at the site stating: "I can confirm that whilst your focus in on student accommodation, you are exempt from our rule."

StudentCrowd claims to list more student accommodation in halls of residence and in houses than any other website, and emphasises student property reviews, checking their authenticity through university email addresses.

The exemption from Agents Mutual's 'one property portal' rule came after a number of our customers were contemplating leaving our site out of fear they would break this rule. This could have crippled our fledgling enterprise which relies on income streams from multiple independent letting agents says Humphreys.

He told Letting Agent Today that he had been fearful of not receiving the exemption.

However, this is not the first lettings exemption granted by Agents' Mutual, the parent company running OnTheMarket which launches on January 26.


Last year it stated a Scottish rental portal, Citylets, was also exempt and a statement from Agents' Mutual said: Scottish letting agents can benefit from a national and local portals combination which provides sustainable alternatives to the current UK portals.

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