As some of you may have noticed, we recently rolled out a completely redesigned rental profile page, along with a few other updates to the site.

In addition to being easier to scan and much cleaner (we think), there are a few changes to the layout that landlords should be aware of.

The biggest change is the layout of the rental details (rent amount, deposit, and included amenities). Before, if a rental had not yet been reviewed and rated by at least one student, no information about that rental would be displayed either on the rental profile page or in the rental search results, whether the landlord had registered and entered info for that rental or not.

Old Rental Profile

New Rental Profile

Now, if the rental has rent and amenities info from the landlord, that info will always show up in the search results and in the rental profile.

We’ve also designed a much more compact way of visualizing the rental details, both according to the landlord, and from the student reviews, which takes about 1/5 the space on the rental profile as the table previously used. We’ll save the benefit of this for the next blog post though.

Old Profile - No Reviews

New Profile - No Reviews

The second main update to the profile layout is moving the Nearby Availabilities and Nearby Rentals to tabs that appear by default behind the Availabilities for that rental. If the rental has any active Availabilities or Sublets needed, they will appear in the foreground, with Nearby Availabilities and Rentals in the background tabs. If there are no active Availabilities or Sublets, the default foreground tab will be Nearby Availabilities.

Nearby Info in Background Tabs

This also has the added benefit of not separating the reviews for the the rental from the report card and the rest of the rental information.

And finally, we have added a thumbnail for each rental to the search results page, so that it’s immediately visible and easier to scan through search results, rather than before when the thumbnail was only visible when the user clicked “show on map”.

Old Rental Search Results

New Rental Search Results

So, what do you think of the new redesign? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!