LIBERTY LIVING'S NOMINATIONS PORTAL PROVES MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN EVER

Liberty Living, one of the UK's leading providers of student accommodation, has revealed that the unique online portal developed exclusively for its university partners has proven more successful than ever.

--------, D.C. (prHWY.com) December 1, 2011 - Liberty Living, one of the UK's leading providers of student accommodation, has revealed that the unique online portal developed exclusively for its university partners has proven more successful than ever.

Over 60 percent of Liberty Living's 14,800 rooms across the UK are nominated directly to universities, forming a core part of the university's accommodation provision.

For the academic year 2011-12, over 6,000 students across 15 universities booked accommodation with Liberty Living through the portal - numbers up from 3,250 in 2010-11.

The nominations portal is an industry-unique innovation which provides a portal solution for the management of nomination agreements between Liberty Living and its university partners, facilitating an automated process of the following:-

* Transfer of student information from the university's I.T. system to the portal
* Email offer of accommodation direct from the portal to the student
* Online contracting by the student for their reserved room
* A real time window into the allocation process for the University, enabling rooms to quickly be re-offered if necessary
* A better moving in experience as all systems are real time and fully up to date

Charles Marshall, CEO of Liberty Living, comments: "Nomination agreements are a very popular way for universities to secure high quality accommodation for their students. The nominations portal has been a resounding success and demonstrates our commitment to developing innovative ways to improve the way we work with our university partners".

Andrew Brewer, Financial Controller of Liberty Living, comments: "Liberty Living recognises that students now expect to be able to manage their lives online, it is essential their first interaction with Liberty Living lives up to this expectation. Without developing a system such as the nominations portal, we would never have been able to provide an online booking service to the majority of our students. The portal is primarily used for first year students post 'A' level results, the ability for a student to be able to secure their accommodation within hours of confirming their university place is unique and in stark contrast to the days of waiting for the postman to disappoint once more.

The portal has been developed at significant cost to Liberty Living, however the benefits have proven the worth of such an investment, namely:-

* A vastly improved means for the university to quickly and effectively offer students the rooms it has secured within the private sector
* The student is able to complete an online application he has come to expect
* Liberty Living's back office systems are all updated automatically in real time

The nominations portal is genuinely a development whereby everybody benefits''.

Northumbria University comments:" The nominations portal has made allocating students to Liberty Living much quicker and easier, the rapid transfer of data from the University to the portal means offers are sent more quickly and access to real time acceptances means a faster turnaround of rooms and a more efficient service for students."

For further information please see http://www.libertyliving.co.uk/news

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