spareroom.com
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SpareRoom: Find Roommates, Rooms for Rent & SubletsFind Roommates and Rooms for Rent in the US or UK. Over 17m registered users!
SpareRoom: Find Roommates, Rooms for Rent & SubletsFind Roommates and Rooms for Rent in the US or UK. Over 17m registered users!
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Business details
- Category
- Property portal
- Sells to
- The public
- Kind of seller
- Marketplace
- Licensed trade
- No licence normally needed
- Domain age
- 24 years
- Address
- , 234 5th Avenue, #413, New York, US
- Email address
- customerservices
@spareroom.com - Phone number
- +1 877-834-2909
- Contact page
- spareroom.com/
contact.pl - Website
- spareroom.com
- Social media
Customer reviews
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Is spareroom.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 78 out of 100, high truth signals: 6 of 10 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mostly satisfied.
spareroom.com's website address was registered 24 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube), with its largest audience of 100,301 followers on Facebook. Customers have left 2,523 reviews on Trustpilot, averaging 4.0 stars out of 5. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 50 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.2 stars out of 5. We could not find an archive history for its website.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
Positives
- Its website address was registered 24 years ago.
- It is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube); the largest audience is 100,301 followers on Facebook.
- Great independent reputation · 2,523 reviews on Trustpilot, rated 4.0 stars out of 5.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Be cautious
- A low number of independent reviews (50 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.2 stars out of 5.
Not found
- Web history and authority information was not found from our checks.
What they offer
Find Roommates and Rooms for Rent in the US or UK. Over 17m registered users!
- Customer stories
- Trustpilot reviews
Latest YouTube video
Correct as of
How to check if spareroom.com is legit
To check if spareroom.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about spareroom.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsBased in the US
- Where the company is based
- US
- Why we believe that
- its legal pages give an address in Delaware, its terms are governed by the laws of New York, its phone number starts +1, its postcode is a US zip code
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 24 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 24 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
- Company contact email is available
- Company contact phone number is available
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- +1 877-834-2909
- Contact page found
- Contact page
Quoted word for word from spareroom.com.
- Ways to contact them
- “Contact us by email or phone” Contact page
- In their own words
- “Every 3 minutes someone finds a roommate on SpareRoom - as the #1 roommate finder you'll be sure to find yours. We have a team of moderators working 7 days a week to check ads and content. Everyone's idea of the perfect roommate is different, so search based on what's important to you.” About page
- Who you're buying from
- “Welcome to www.spareroom.com (the "Site" ) and/or our US SpareRoom mobile application (collectively the "Platform" ) brought to you by Spareroom, Inc ( "SpareRoom" , "we" , "us" and "our" ), a company registered in Delaware with file number 6113758.” Terms page
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews2,573 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.2 to 4.0 out of 5
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | 4 out of 5 | 2,523 |
| SmartCustomer | 2.2 out of 5 | 50 |
| G2 | Not found | |
| Capterra | Not found | |
| Reviews.io | Not found | |
| Feefo | Not found | |
| Trustindex | Not found | |
| Not checked |
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 100,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 100,000 sites
Web history and authoritynothing known
nothing recorded
Social presenceIt is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube); the largest audience is 100,301 followers on Facebook
- Its YouTube channel has 2,600 subscribers and 80 videos, the latest uploaded on 11 Mar 2025
| Platform | Profile | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | 100,301 followers | |
| Profile | 9,658 followers | |
| X | Not found | |
| Not found | ||
| YouTube | Profile | 2,600 subscribers |
| TikTok | Profile | 9,165 followers |
- Social platforms with discovered profiles
- facebook, instagram, tiktok, youtube
- Social follower counts
- 121,724 followers in total
- YouTube channel
- 80 videos, 2,600 subscribers, last upload 11 Mar 2025
What data this site collects about you
What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
- Says it does not sell your personal data.
- “We will not sell or rent any of this information to any third parties outside of the same corporate group as Spareroom, Inc nor send any marketing communications from a third party outside of the same corporate group as Spareroom, Inc unless you have specifically opted in to receiving them.”
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked
- Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- none
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Certificate type
- DV
- Certificate expires
- 24 Mar 2027
- Nameservers
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- 151.101.194.49
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