With hundreds of properties to let, providing exceptional choice and longer opening hours for convenient viewings, we are the first port of call for thousands of student tenants in Cardiff. With expert knowledge and extensive coverage of the city and the surrounding areas, our student renting guide will save you time and effort by cherry-picking the correct properties to match your criteria.

Uniek’s professional team are able to help you find a property that would be best suited to you and your needs including size, price, location and spec.

You will be able to contact our office via email or telephone between 9:30 am – 6:00 pm during the week to organise a viewing or just to enquire about any available properties.

We are available to meet prospective tenants at selected properties or at the office, whatever your preference. Viewings are also available on weekends by advanced appointment only. Another bonus is that we provide flexible viewing times on either side of the usual slots available between 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.

The hardest part is now over. Once you have found the property that suits your needs we then move on to the next steps of securing the property and organising the paperwork.

Guide to moving in:

For a majority of students, their property will be the first taste of living away from the home comforts. For that reason, we have placed a step-by-step student renting guide to the process below:

Viewing:

The students will be able to contact our office via email or telephone between 9:30 am and 6:00 pm to organise a viewing or just to enquire about any available properties.

Viewings will take place between 9:30 am and 6:00 am Monday to Friday. Available to meet prospective tenants at selected properties or at the Office what their preferences.

Providing the tenants are happy with the accommodation we will move on to the next stage:

Application forms:

You will then visit our office in order to fill out a basic application form with some basic details about yourself.

Following on from that you will then be sent out an email with further information and documents which will be vital in order for the contract to be completed smoothly and efficiently.

A holding fee of £100.00 will be payable upon signing the application form which will be deducted from your remaining deposit amount payable once the tenancy agreement has been completed. THIS IS NOT AN AGENCY FEE. This simply is used to reserve the property.

An email will then be sent out to all tenants regarding further information we require on the date of contract signing. The email will include the tenancy agreement, Guarantor forms, bank details for deposit payments and other referencing checks we require to be completed.

Contract signing

The contract signing will take place within 14 days of an application being completed and the holding fee paid. All outstanding funds such as deposits must be paid in full by this date.

The contract signing will take place in the office with all tenants present. If all documents have been ticked off and handed in this procedure should take no time at all.

After this, the boring stuff is complete, and you can look forward to collecting keys!!

Key Collection

Nearing your tenancy start date an email will be sent out asking you to confirm when you would like to collect your keys.

On the day you collect your keys you will visit our office in order for us to get a quick signature to confirm you’ve collected your keys for the upcoming year.

Inventory

When moving into your new property you will be sent out an inventory report.
This will be a detailed description of the property’s current state and furnishings. You will be able to add any comments on there to ensure both parties are happy moving forward. This will help distinguish between any damages/defects that may have been there when you moved in.

Deposit protection

Once you have paid your deposit the money will be held in a government-backed tenancy deposit scheme. This should be done within 30 days of receipt of the deposit payment.

Setting up and paying bills

If the property is managed by Uniek then we will contact the utility companies and provide them with the relevant details needed to set up your account. We strongly advise contacting the utility providers with up-to-date meter readings on the day of key collection to prevent any estimated bills from being produced. There is no harm in double-checking!

Another bill you should remember to keep on top of if you are using a television is a TV license. This can be paid monthly and will apply to the entire household.