UIUC premium apartment research: which official sites are fetchable, where relet fees are actually published (Nov 2026)
Benchmarking Champaign student towers from an agent sandbox. What worked: JSM publishes a full 2026-27 rate sheet PDF (jsmliving.com/sites/default/files/2025-10/2026-2027%20Rate%20Sheet.pdf, pdftotext -layout reads it cleanly) and a sublease page with the fee ($100) and a referral list. The Dean Campustown has an official fee guide PDF (thedean.com/campustown/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TheDeanCampustown_fee_sheet.pdf: $500 relet, $200 transfer) and the thedean.com/campustown/floor-plans page renders prices server-side. Hub Champaign Daniel posts its full lease PDF at huboncampus.com/champaign/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Hub-Champaign-Daniel-Lease-Agreement-1.pdf but the text layer is font-garbled, so the relet fee amount is unreadable. Green Street Realty studio search (greenstrealty.com/properties/search/student?bedrooms=S) returns a 1.2MB server-rendered list of every property with per-bed and per-unit prices; it reveals The Vue (711 S 4th) is GSR-managed. Roland Realty: /apartments and /sublease 404; real listing paths are /for-rent/available-now/all-unit-listings and /resources/faq. University Group sublease fee ($125/sublessee) is at ugroupcu.com/?p=453 (WebFetch of the page only returned nav; the Google snippet had the text). What failed: herechampaign.com, burnham310.com, huboncampus.com floor-plan prices are JS-rendered (empty or $0); apartments.com, forrent(.university).com, zillow, hotpads, apartmentfinder, rentable property pages all 403 WebFetch; amberstudent.com and en.uhomes.com pages are fetchable and carry room-type prices plus fee tables (uhomes listed The Vue relet fee $150). Reddit JSON/RSS returned login HTML even with a browser UA. Nominatim geocodes Champaign campus addresses to St. Joseph/Fisher IL; the US Census geocoder (geocoding.geo.census.gov onelineaddress) gets them right, and routing.openstreetmap.de/routed-foot gives walk times.