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Home rental start-up, Nestaway Technologies, plans to launch living spaces exclusively for women and senior citizens in Bengaluru by the end of 2019. It hopes to enter three new cities by December 2019 and ramp up its headcount with 360 additional hires over the next 12 months0.
“We are looking to scale up our tenant base of over 16,500 single women and single moms to 30,000 by next year. To achieve this, we are piloting living spaces for single women/moms in gated communities and in well lit areas which are secure and will be adding 1,000 more homes for them by the year end,” Amarendra Sahu, co-founder and CEO, Nestaway Technologies told BusinessLine.
“You will be pleasantly surprised to know that home owners in Bengaluru are willing to offer 30 per cent discount on rentals for single moms. This discount will mean a lot to single women as they spend over 40 per cent of their income on housing,” he said.
Nestaway, which has raised $104 million so far, plans to launch 350-400 homes for senior citizens by the year end. This project is currently in the pilot phase. Both citizens’ homes and single women/moms’ homes will consist of a mix of shared and family homes that are unfurnished, semi-furnished and fully-furnished.
The start-up also hopes to increase its workforce by 40 per cent by adding 360 new hires in technology, product and operations roles in existing and new city launches. “We plan to foray into three new markets – Kolkata, Indore and Kochi by December,” said Sahu.
Nestaway acts as a property management firm for house owners by connecting them with prospective tenants and providing services from renting to re-renting, creating the rent agreement, renewing it, handling property damages, legal disputes etc.
Asked about the company’s compliance with the Model Tenancy Act 2019, drafted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Sahu said, “When we started, about 20 per cent of our owner base was reluctant to give their house on rent fearing eviction risks. We are already compliant with most terms mentioned in the Act, including two months of security deposit, dispute resolution, rental security, timely refunds and non-discrimination of tenants based on gender, caste, religion, lifestyle and habits. These services have been instrumental in growing our customer base to over 45,000 homes and 60,000 tenants. We have also instituted arbitration for governing rental disputes between owners and tenants and we haven’t seen any issue since the last four years.”
Interestingly, Nestaway has convinced its home owners in Bengaluru to bring down the 10-month security deposit taken from tenants, by half. In four and a half years Nestaway has built a presence across 13 cities including Bengaluru, Gurugram, Chennai, Hyderabad, Noida, Pune, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Faridabad, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Mumbai.
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