Useful Listing Websites
Search On-Line
Most students will conduct a significant portion of their housing search via the internet. It’s a great resource to assist students in finding available rental properties across the city. Below, the OHR has collected some of the websites that students have indicated in the past are particularly useful in finding housing.
- Boston University Off-Campus Services – This office serves as the OHR’s counterpart on BU’s Charles River Campus. Off-Campus Services maintains a database of available apartments for rent across the Boston area, and you can search them directly online if you have set up your kerberos password. If you have not yet obtained your kerberos password and university identification number, call 617-353-3523, or contact the OHR, for temporary log-in rights.
- Craig’s List – Probably the most used website for students looking for housing in the Boston area, Craig’s List offers a huge number of listings. Craig’s List allows you to search for apartments, rooms for rent, sublets, and properties for sale. They also have a housing wanted section where you can post what you’re looking for. Searches can be conducted by rent amount, size of apartment, allowance of pets, or keywords. Searching on Craig’s List can take a little bit of time, though. Check this page for more information about how to make the most out of Craig’s List searching.
- bostonapartments.com – This site allows you to focus on specific neighborhoods within the city very effectively, and it offers a number of different options and criteria (far beyond Craig’s List). However, keep in mind that most of the posting on this site are sent in by realtors or brokers.
- eprivacy.com – This is the website of the new ePrio system that the BU Medical Campus is testing in cooperation with ePrio’s creators. This service allows students to match themselves with available apartments or prospective roommates based on a number of different criteria. The complex algorithms and patented peer-to-peer matching technology let ePrio try to locate an apartment for you based on your stated housing needs. Students interested in being involved with the test should contact the OHR to get an official invitation.
- The Boston Globe – Search the classifieds section of the Boston Globe by size, price, area, and/or keywords.
- The Boston Herald – Search for apartment listings by location and price.
- Apartmentguide.com – Search for apartment complexes by location, then narrow your search to include specific amenities.
- Dwellings – Search for NO FEE listings only. Produces a limited number of results.
- The Boston Phoenix – Limited number of classified listings. No search criteria.
- South End Bulletin – Community web board with occasional apartment listings specific to the South End.
- StudentDoctor.com – a website for students looking at various types of medical programs across the country. The forums and wiki section have a lot of information about Boston, and occasionally have some specific housing opportunities.
- Housing Maps – A combination of Craig’s List and Google Maps, this new website collects listings of available apartments and maps them out across the Boston area so you can see where the highest number of availabilities are located. New, but very useful!
