Real Estate Agent · Orlando, FL · Member since 2016 · 139 posts · 80 votes
7y
@Luke Carl They're working on a project here in Kissimmee also. I'm honestly surprised it took them this long to jump into the scene. Pulte, Lennar and many other builders have been building STR purpose-built homes and communities in this area for almost a decade. They make great investments if you buy them as resales. Airbnb is late to the game but glad to see them jumping in and providing value to the STR real estate industry! I'm curious to see what their sales model will look like.
Investor · Greer, SC · Member since 2014 · 13k+ posts · 17k+ votes
7y
So this looks like the meat and potaoes of it:
Backyard is poised to be much larger than ADUs, in Gebbia’s telling. Yes, small prefabricated dwellings could be in the roadmap, but so are green building materials, standalone houses, and multi-unit complexes. Think of Backyard as both a producer and a marketplace for selling major aspects of the home, in any shape it might come in.
“Backyard investigates how buildings could utilize sophisticated manufacturing techniques, smart-home technologies, and gains vast insight from the Airbnb community to thoughtfully respond to changing owner or occupant needs over time,” Gebbia says. “Backyard isn’t a house, it’s an initiative to rethink the home. Homes are complex, and we’re taking a broad approach–not just designing one thing, but a system that can do many things.”
So maybe they want to stat selling prefab homes/buildings?
Contractor · Knoxville, TN · Member since 2018 · 77 posts · 44 votes
7y
It sounds like they're (smartly) seeking to make themselves an integral part of the certain-to-be complex future of SHELTER AT LARGE in the near and mid future. They're playing all sides: owners, guests, renters (ie longer than STR guests), builders, agents, lenders, etc.
Real Estate Agent · Orlando, FL · Member since 2016 · 139 posts · 80 votes
7y
@Luke Carl They're working on a project here in Kissimmee also. I'm honestly surprised it took them this long to jump into the scene. Pulte, Lennar and many other builders have been building STR purpose-built homes and communities in this area for almost a decade. They make great investments if you buy them as resales. Airbnb is late to the game but glad to see them jumping in and providing value to the STR real estate industry! I'm curious to see what their sales model will look like.
Real Estate Entrepreneur / Investor · Chicago, IL · Member since 2016 · 688 posts · 367 votes
7y
Wow. Didn’t think Airbnb would be such a very huge company within real estate. Coming from when they first started. Wow.....But. The questions should start coming in.....how will this affect home ownership and rents? I’m sure property taxes will skyrocket as well as other expenses where the company chooses to start building. Such as gas, water and electric bills in these cities. I personally think homelessness will continue to skyrocket and more and more people will be force to be tenants.....just my two cents on this matter.