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Essex Property Trust: The value of staying put
Essex built an apartment business around places where building is difficult. Its West Coast focus explains both the appeal of the company and the risks that come with it.
Hendry Rusli and the business of staying longer
Travelio began by letting travellers bargain over hotel rooms. Its co-founder and CEO followed the business into apartments, monthly rents, and the everyday work of turning an empty property into a place to live.
Anthemos Georgiades and the long wait for a book button
A frustrating apartment hunt sent an Oxford classicist into the rental business. Fourteen years after co-founding Zumper, Anthemos Georgiades has handed over the CEO role while the search for a simpler move enters its AI chapter.
Triplemint went looking for homes that weren’t for sale
A New York brokerage bet that the most interesting home was the one nobody had listed yet. Its journey from apartment rentals to The Agency reveals how much work sits between a prediction and a deal.
Progress Management and the billion-dollar afterlife of an apartment portfolio
Conrad Prebys built a San Diego rental business whose wealth reached classrooms, concert halls and medical research. The sale of his apartment portfolio exposed a harder question: what happens to the people still living inside it?
L’Abri’s business is shelter. The work is in the details.
A card table in Downey grew into a property-management business spanning thousands of apartments. L’Abri’s story runs through rent ledgers, resident complaints and two reported 2024 purchases worth $31.35 million.
Travelio
Travelio is an Indonesian property-technology company that runs an online marketplace and end-to-end management platform for apartments, houses and villas. Founded in Jakarta in 2015, it lets landlords hand over units for professional management while giving tenants furnished, standardized homes they can book and pay for daily, monthly or annually - including a rare month-by-month payment option in a market that traditionally demands a full year up front. Often called 'Indonesia's Airbnb,' Travelio manages roughly 15,000 exclusive properties across a dozen cities and is expanding into rent-to-own housing.