In today’s landscape where the wave of globalisation is sweeping across the education sector, the cross-border mobility of international students has become the norm. This has been accompanied by growing and complex demand for overseas accommodation.
In this context, uhomes.com, a leading global accommodation service platform for international students, recently announced the finalization of its global strategic deployment. This marks a significant strategic upgrade for the company: transitioning from ‘serving Chinese international students’ to “serving global international students.”
This is not only a milestone in the development history of uhomes.com but also signifies that the global student accommodation industry is advancing toward greater standardisation, technological integration, and human-centric service. Leveraging nearly a decade of industry expertise, extensive official partnerships, a unique cross-cultural and multilingual service system, and a smart booking experience driven by cutting-edge technology, uhomes.com is now redefining the overseas living experience for international students worldwide, presented as a brand-new “International Accommodation Technology Brand.”
Deepening Global Strategy from Regional to Worldwide Coverage
uhomes.com’s international journey is a history of carefully planned, step-by-step strategic expansion. Founded in 2015, the company’s initial mission was to resolve the core pain point of accommodation for Chinese students venturing overseas. However, with the increasing mobility of international students globally, uhomes.com keenly observed that a standardised, borderless accommodation service platform was the inevitable future trend.
Establishing the Global Physical Network
uhomes.com’s globalisation is not theoretical; it is built upon a solid physical operational network. The company’s headquarters are located in Tianjin, China, serving as the technology R&D centre for its global strategy. From this origin point, uhomes.com has established key branches in Chinese cities such as Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu, forming a robust system for backend support and resource allocation.
More crucially is its overseas deployment. uhomes.com chose not to pursue an asset-light, purely online model, but rather insists on setting up physical offices in core study destinations. Currently, uhomes.com’s regional centres can be found in the heart of London, the bustling districts of New York and the academic hub of Boston, as well as emerging study-abroad hotspots in Asia such as Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, and Seoul.
These overseas offices play multiple roles: they act as scouts on the market frontline, gaining first-hand insight into local rental market and policy changes; they serve as a bridge for communication with apartment brand partners, maintaining and deepening official cooperative relations; and they function as forward operating bases for local students, offering face-to-face consultations, emergency assistance, and localised living guides. This ‘online platform + offline hubs’ operational model constitutes a core barrier to entry that is difficult for competitors to replicate.
Continuous Expansion of the Business Landscape
By 2025, the business landscape of uhomes.com has achieved stunning expansion. Its service network now provides deep coverage across more than 50 countries and regions globally, encompassing over 500 major study destinations. Whether in traditional major study destinations like the UK, the US, Australia, and Canada, or in increasingly popular countries across Europe (e.g., France and Germany) and Asia (e.g., Singapore and Malaysia), students can find their ideal accommodation on uhomes.com.
The platform’s cumulative registered user base has surpassed the 2.5 million mark—a figure that represents a vote of confidence from students worldwide. Among these users, more than 400,000 students have successfully booked their overseas apartments through uhomes.com. These successful cases generate a powerful data flow that continuously drives the optimisation of platform services. In 2025, the company’s Annual Transaction Volume (GMV) historically surpassed CNY 10 billion, which is not only a tremendous commercial success but also strong evidence of its status as a core participant in the global student accommodation market.
Cross-Cultural Support Breaking Language Barriers
If the global physical network is the ‘skeleton’ of uhomes.com, then its unique cross-cultural service system is the ‘blood’ that flows through it, filling the entire platform with vitality and warmth.
Comprehensive Coverage of Multilingual Capabilities
Language is often the most direct obstacle in overseas life. To thoroughly dismantle this ‘high wall’, uhomes.com established multilingual support as a core function. Its official website and App not only provide standard Chinese and English interfaces but also integrate versions in languages such as Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, catering to the operational habits of students from different native language backgrounds.
Professional Support from the International Consultant Team
More valuable than the multi-language interface is the international consultant team that uhomes.com takes great pride in. Members of this team are from all corners of the world, capable of providing dedicated one-on-one services in over ten languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, French. This ensures that no matter which country a student comes from, they can communicate fluently with a professional consultant in their native or target language.
These consultants are not merely simple customer service staff. They are ‘overseas tenancy experts’ who have undergone systematic training and are familiar with the tenancy laws and policies. Crucially, many team members themselves have rich experience studying or living abroad. They have personally experienced the anxiety of house hunting and contract signing, and the helplessness of being new to a foreign country. Therefore, they are genuinely able to put themselves in the student’s shoes, offering advice that goes beyond simple property recommendations to include shared living experience and cultural adaptation guidance. From patient consultation and guidance, to meticulous contract vetting and final smooth move-in, the consultant team provides a truly ‘worry-free companion service’ throughout the entire process.
Tech and Content Drive Transparency in Student Rentals
In the traditional overseas rental market, information asymmetry has long been the core pain point plaguing international students. Issues such as misleading listings, aesthetically enhanced photos, and concealment of property defects are common. From its inception, uhomes.com established ‘transparency’ as its core value, and through the dual engines of technology and content, the company is dedicated to creating a “what you see is what you get” tenancy environment.
Building Trust Through Content: Around the World
To ensure students receive the most authentic and comprehensive property information before booking, uhomes.com has dedicatedly built its proprietary global content brand, ‘Traversing the World’. This is not simple marketing; it is a massive, sustained content project. uhomes.com’s professional property scouting teams constantly travel across major study cities worldwide, tasked with objectively ‘restoring’ the true appearance of the apartments for students.
- On-Site Video Assessments:The team acts as a demanding prospective tenant, documenting the route from the apartment gate to the interior, detailing room layout, lighting, storage space, testing the integrity of communal facilities, and assessing the true quality of amenities like gyms and media rooms.
- Virtual Reality (VR) Tours:Utilising advanced VR technology, students can ‘walk into’ their desired apartment without leaving home, viewing every corner of the room in 720-degree, dead-angle-free, immersive experiences.
- Live Guided Tours:com regularly hosts live events in cooperation with apartment managers, who lead real-time tours and answer student queries online, ensuring high interactivity and efficient information delivery.
Through these three-dimensional content formats, “Traversing the World” is weaving a ‘global student tenancy encyclopedia,’ allowing students to base their decisions not on a few retouched images, but on rich, objective, and credible firsthand information.
Smart Technology Enhances Efficiency
Beyond information authenticity, how can a student quickly find the most suitable property? uhomes.com’s answer is technology. The platform’s independently developed intelligent matching system integrates 3D mapping technology with AI algorithms. Students can input their school location and specific department, and the system will intuitively visualise all surrounding properties on a map. Concurrently, students can overlay multiple filtering conditions—such as ‘within a 15-minute walk,’ ‘budget £300–£350 per week,’ ‘en-suite bathroom,’ or ‘south-facing’—and the AI system will filter the vast inventory in milliseconds, significantly enhancing the search efficiency.
Official Partnerships Ensure Safety and Price Security
In the critical decision-making area of tenancy, the reliability of property listings and the security of funds are the most pressing concerns for students. uhomes.com has built a solid ‘moat’ for its users by establishing direct, in-depth partnerships with official global apartment brands.
Extensive Official Partnership Network
uhomes.com’s property inventory does not come from scattered sub-landlords or unauthorised intermediaries; instead, all listings originate from apartment brands with which the platform maintains official partnerships. Currently, this cooperative network encompasses over 2,000 apartment brands globally, ensuring the authority and reliability of every property on the platform.
In recent years, these partnerships have deepened. Leveraging its strong market influence, uhomes.com has secured exclusive or significant global strategic partnerships with a series of international top-tier apartment brands, including Vita Student, Homes for Students, Scape, iQ Student Accommodation, and UniLodge. For example, VITA STUDENT and HoS have granted uhomes.com “Exclusive Strategic Partnership Rights for the Global Chinese Student Market,” while Scape UK has designated the platform as its “Sole Official Booking Platform Partner Globally.” These ‘exclusive’ statuses mean students booking through uhomes.com gain unmatched priority property reservation rights and exclusive booking benefits unavailable through other channels.
Dual Commitment to Price & Financial Security
uhomes.com firmly implements a transparent pricing policy of ‘Zero Agency Fee, Zero Price Markup.’ The platform guarantees that all cooperative apartment booking prices are identical to those on the apartment’s official website. Its revenue model primarily relies on commissions paid by the apartment brands, ensuring the platform can consistently offer fair and objective services while advocating for the student’s best interest.
Regarding financial security, uhomes.com has designed a rigorous process. Students’ rent payments are made directly to the apartment provider’s official account, not to any individual or intermediary account. Security deposits are strictly handled in accordance with local regulations, placed into government-approved third-party deposit protection schemes (such as the UK’s DPS and TDS). This series of standardised operations fundamentally eliminates the risk of fund misappropriation or fraud.
Furthermore, the platform offers a “Best Price Guarantee” policy. Should a student find a lower public price for the exact same property during the same period, uhomes.com commits to offering a more competitive rate, ensuring students enjoy the optimal market price. Based on its authority in the industry and widespread user acclaim, uhomes.com has received official recognition and recommendations from multiple world-renowned universities, including the University of Birmingham, King’s College London, Imperial College London, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
uhomes.com: Making Global Student Housing Easier
Transitioning from an initial tenancy platform serving Chinese students to its current status as an international accommodation technology brand, every step taken by uhomes.com has been solid and clear. Guided by its globalisation strategy, the company is continuing to build an open, win-win global student accommodation ecosystem through the dual-wheel drive model of ‘technology + global operations.
Looking ahead, uhomes.com will continue to uphold its core philosophy of ‘student-centricity,’ further expanding its international cooperation network and deepening its synergistic linkage with global universities, apartment brands, and educational institutions. The company is committed to being more than just a tool for booking accommodation; it strives to become a trustworthy partner for every international student overseas, providing a safe, comfortable, and warm ‘home’ for their educational journey, and together ushering in a new epoch for global student accommodation services.
