Long dominated by a stack of software and manual processes, rental management is entering a new era with AI. Artificial intelligence is becoming a factor of productivity, standardization and consolidation, transforming a historically local and labor-intensive sector into an automated software infrastructure.
The so-called platforms “AI-native” seek to go beyond simple management SaaS, by making vacation rentals function as a self-learning system, capable of orchestrating the relationship between owners, tenants and service providers. In this approach, each interaction, whether reservation, pricing, communication, maintenance, becomes data processed in real time by predictive models.
The objective is no longer to help managers manage their operations, but to gradually replace them with autonomous workflows. This is a development comparable to that observed in finance with algorithmic trading or advertising with programmatic optimization. AI is becoming the new manager, and the most advanced companies no longer hesitate to internalize these functions to regain control of the value chain.
This trend is accompanied by a movement of accelerated consolidation. Startups like Arbio Or Buenaboth based in Berlin, are adopting rapid takeover strategies from independent managers to centralize their portfolios and train their AI models on increasing volumes of behavioral data. The European market, estimated at more than 20 billion eurosstill remains fragmented between local players, obsolete software and human operators.
Founded by Constantin Schröder And Paul Baumler, ARBIO announces a round table of 31 million euros nearEurazeo, OpenOcean, Atlantic Labs and several business angels from KKR And GetYourGuide. Its platform already manages more than 1,000 goods in the DACH region, carried out more than 30 acquisitionsand claims a revenue growth multiplied tenfold in two years.
