Urban Living Festival 2025: Key takeaways for short-term rentals

UK: The 2025 Urban Living Festival offered a comprehensive look at the trends and challenges shaping hospitality and real estate. The two-day event began with property tours across Denmark Street, before culminating in a full day of panels, presentations, awards and networking at Mary Ward House. Across four Short Term Rentalz sessions, speakers shared insights […]
Review: Urban Living Festival takes hospitality insights to next level

UK: The 2024 Urban Living Festival offered a comprehensive overview of the current trends and challenges shaping the hospitality and real estate sectors.
Hospiria and Alliants partner for 1 LiVNG flex rental platform

UK: Customer experience technology platform Alliants and SaaS solution Hospiria have partnered to launch a flexible rental platform called 1 LiVNG, which is focused on transforming the residential real estate market.
Landing buys Barsala in $30m transaction

US: Flexible apartment living membership company Landing has acquired tech-enabled flexible housing operator Barsala in a $30 million transaction.
Abode Worldwide makes three key hires

UK: Abode Worldwide, a specialist public relations agency in the hospitality and living sectors, has announced three key hires as it seeks to execute its ambitious growth plan.
RealPage taps NoiseAware for Migo solution

US: RealPage, a global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, has selected smart noise monitoring company NoiseAware as the exclusive noise monitoring service for its new apartment home-sharing solution, Migo. Migo, partnered with Airbnb, is designed to provide a turnkey solution for short-term rentals in multifamily communities. NoiseAware has been […]
Orion Haus adds ten buildings and 1500+ units to US portfolio

US: Miami-based multifamily management company Orion Haus, which creates short-term rental friendly buildings, is adding ten buildings and 1,588 units to its domestic portfolio, including in Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Memphis and Orlando, in what it claims to be “the largest short-term rental multifamily deal in history”. The transaction will allow Orion Haus to better serve […]
Frontdesk introduces Flex platform

US: Short-term rental startup Frontdesk has introduced Frontdesk Flex, a new suite of solutions aiming to change how multifamily real estate owners and managers engage in the market. The company is launching the platform on 16 November. Flex aims to be the most powerful short-term rental management platform on the market, providing a wide range of […]