Our Home Run housing list features a variety of accommodation listings offered by private landlords and letting agents. 

 All accommodation providers advertising rooms and properties have agreed to comply with our advertising Terms and Conditions, and we check that the right information is added to the listings before they’re available to view online.  

As well as the advertising list, the website features a message board, where you can find other students to group up with, or advertise spare rooms in your current tenancy.

Student access to Home Run 

If you are a current UEA student, you can login directly at Home Run. 

Use your UEA email address and password - the same details you would use to login to a computer in the UEA library or to access e:Vision. 

Once logged in, you’ll be able to make direct enquiries to landlord and agents using the internal messaging system, create a hotlist of properties you are interested in and set up alerts to receive emails when new properties that match your preferences are added to the housing list. 

If you have an offer to study at UEA then you are also welcome to view our housing list and message board.  

Please create a Student Account and send confirmation of your offer to homerun@uea.ac.uk. Once your account has been activated, you'll also benefit from the account features described above.

Landlords and letting agents 

If you’re interested in advertising with us, we’d love to hear from you.  

If you have any queries that aren't answered by the information below, please email homerun@uea.ac.uk.

Our service 

We provide students with Home Run to find private sector accommodation and offer providers of accommodation the opportunity to advertise their properties to UEA students. This is an advertising-only platform open to both existing and new landlords, letting agents and providers of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). 

This applies to advertising of tenancies with contract start dates between 1st July 2025 and 30th June 2026. 

Please note: our old accreditation scheme closed on 30th June 2022, and we no longer accept registrations for accreditation. However, you can register to join our advertising only service.

Advertising for 2025/26 

Unlike the general private rented sector, it is very common for students to arrange their accommodation many months ahead of their contract start date and the start of the new academic year. 

We start to approve requests to advertise properties for the next academic year from mid-November.  

Despite this, our main message to students through the first semester is ‘Don’t Rent Yet’ and we will not actively market our housing list until the 'Ready to Rent' campaign starting in January. 'Ready to Rent' is a series of events aimed at helping students prepare for house hunting and make informed decisions about where they choose to live. We cover topics including tenancy agreements, finding housemates, deposits and how to be a good tenant and neighbour. 

We believe that this will not only benefit our students but also offer you a measure of security in knowing that your next tenants will have the best understanding of their responsibilities. 

It is our experience - as the leading housing support provider to students in Norwich - that students are far more likely to approach us about the possibility of ending their contract early (and in some cases before the tenancy agreement has even started) if the tenancy agreement was signed during the first semester of the previous academic year. Students who have taken the time to decide where they want to live, and who they want to live with, are less likely to experience significant issues with their home, housemates and landlord.  

There is no evidence to suggest that properties advertised from January are less likely to be let than those advertised from November. In fact, during a normal year, our statistics show that January is the month where we see the most engagement with the housing list and the highest number of let rooms and properties. 

We would ask you to support us in preparing your next tenants by avoiding practices which encourage students to commit to a house too soon.