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Sentral puts the whole building to work.
An apartment can be a home for a year or a landing pad for a week. Sentral’s bet is that one operator should know how to handle both.
Lavanda Was a Laundry App. Then the Landlords Called.
A consumer laundry service discovered its best customers were property operators with a stranger problem: empty beds, mismatched software and no clean way to mix hotel-speed stays with residential leases. Lavanda followed the demand and built the operating system instead.
MetroResidences
MetroResidences is a Singapore-founded proptech platform that curates furnished serviced apartments and monthly rentals for business travellers, expats and urban professionals across Asia Pacific. Launched in 2014 by James Chua and Lester Kang, it matches corporate tenants needing month-plus stays with quality apartments and layers on hotel-style services like housekeeping, maintenance and front-desk support. Backed by Rakuten Capital and 500 Durians, the company positions itself as a professionally managed alternative to both traditional serviced-residence operators and Airbnb-style listings.