As humans, we have an evolutionary need for stability, community, and neighbourhood, which owning a home can provide. However, transferring ownership of land and property is a complex process, one that requires the cooperation of many different parties - and this suggests that it can be time-consuming, especially under today’s fragmented status quo of markets. Studies suggested that the pre-contract stage averagely takes 4 to 12 weeks. 

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A start-up real estate company, CASAVO is tackling this challenge by innovating a digital platform centred on technologies, providing a full digital experience to its customers, and offering a transparent, controlled, and comfortable purchasing and selling involvement: 

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“If you look at the real estate transaction, it's very much full of friction and complex. And thanks to technology, you can manage that complexity and provide a delightful yet simple experience to any home seller and buyer,” says Giorgio Tinacci, CEO and founder at CASAVO.  

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CASAVO holds a vision of “Freedom from Complexity”. It is recognised as a digital residential platform across Europe that is challenging the traditional process of property selling and buying and innovating a new approach. It provides an end-to-end technology stack across the operation chain that can make the whole selling or buying experience safe and delightful, freeing people from distress and uncertainty. 

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As a customer-centric business, CASAVO lays its heart on utilising the power of data-driven technology to offer a comfortable experience for customers.  Mr. Tinacci elaborates, “we managed to build for the first time a property algorithm with more than 1.5 million data points to provide information transference on the market, and at the same time to take sound and right decisions in our operations.” What’s more, as property buying and selling are always associated with large amounts of transfers, CASAVO constructs a financial platform embedded in the business model to eliminate the safety issue and better serve the customers. 

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Furthermore, CASAVO’s dedication to offering a pleasant experience to its customers is not limited to being an intermediary agency, it can also provide renovation services that costs below 30% to 40% compared to the retail market to make the property for sell qualifies more to the buyers’ demands. “It's a very convenient service for the home buyer and a solid partner network that can allow us to really go through a very sound execution process ensuring high quality for our customers,” says Mr. Tinacci. 

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CASAVO has grown rapidly since its founding in 2017. In the past 5 years, it expanded from a 4 people team to over 400 employees across 11 cities, and it is still gaining momentum to thrive more in the industry. It firmly believes that what boosts its success so far is its people, and it has been making sure that every employee is empowered, and genuinely feels attached to its long-term purpose and vision. Marta Raimondi, Chief Human Resources Officer at CASAVO says, “we are working every day to build a people-centric culture. Culture is the universal background that bears the growth, ensures us consistency across the market, and enables us to maximize the uniqueness of each team member coming into our company.”

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Moving forward, CASAVO will continuously hold the inspiration of building a marketplace of online property buying and selling as well as narrowing the gap between property offers and demands, carrying the aspiration of employing data and technology and valuing its own people.

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