Our StoryFounded 2020

We started with one home,
and a list of questions.

OmniVillas exists because managing a rental shouldn’t feel like a second job. This is the long version.

The idea for OmniVillas emerged while we were running our own rental. At first it was a fun project. Then it began to feel stressful.

We still loved having a rental property, but there had to be a better way. The management companies we tried were either generic — built for office buildings, not seaside villas — or astronomical, eating most of the upside. So we built the operation we wished we had: a small, capable team that treats your home like real estate rather than a side hustle, paired with quiet tools that keep every detail in view.

A small operation, by design.

We’ve stayed deliberately small — one hundred-and-something homes across four continents, with a team of fewer than thirty. The bet is that depth beats breadth: we can lift a single home’s revenue precisely because we aren’t trying to manage ten thousand of them with a call centre.

The best property management feels like nothing. The home earns. The owner travels. The guest leaves a long review.

How we host.

Every morning, our team reviews every home in our care. A photo that’s getting old; a slow response yesterday; an amenity we’re not tagging — someone notices, and someone fixes it that day. None of it is invisible to owners: the dashboard the team works from is the one you see.

Principles

Five things we will not compromise on.

01

The owner’s number first.

If a decision doesn’t increase net-to-owner over time, we don’t make it.

02

One dashboard, one truth.

Owners and the team look at the same numbers. No “owner view” sleight of hand.

03

No long contracts.

Cancel any time. Existing reservations honored. The product earns the renewal.

04

Quiet for owners.

Notifications when you need them, silence the rest of the time.

05

Stay small enough to care.

We grow the portfolio at a pace we can keep human. Knowing every home is the bar.

An invitation

We’re selective — by design.

We host a deliberately small portfolio, and we’re honest that not every home is a fit. It isn’t about prestige; it’s that doing right by each home means we can’t take them all. If yours is distinctive and you care how it’s looked after, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply to become a host

Lidia Cabrera

Founder · Strategy

Carlos Rios

Head of Operations

Emilyn Paruli

Head of Finance

Philipp Reichardt

Strategic Advisor
Timeline

Six years in slow growth.

2020

Our first home

We rent out a single property. ROI is good; sanity is the bottleneck.

1 home · 1 market
2021

OmniVillas, formally.

Friends ask us to manage their places. We say yes and quit our jobs.

4 homes
2022

The first owner dashboard.

One view of every home — shared by the team and by owners. We’ve built on it ever since.

18 homes
2023

Across the Atlantic.

Europe opens. The first multilingual owner app ships.

42 homes
2024

Direct-booking site.

stay.omnivillas.com goes live. Repeat guests start booking us directly.

71 homes
2026

One hundred homes.

Four continents. EN · DE · FR · ES owner experience. Quietly profitable.

100+ homes · 4 continents