Business View Magazine May 2023

39 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 AVENUEWEST rate, and when they move they don’t want to release it. Maybe they’re planning on coming back to the area eventually, or they’re going to retire there in the future. Or, they just see the market increasing in that area. So, they want to turn it into a rental property instead of selling it.” “Then there are those who’ve sold their home and are trying to purchase their next property. They need a transitional home while they try to bid to find the right property at the right price. We’ve housed quite a few clients that way. As long as there’s change, change is good for corporate housing. People are moving, people are switching jobs. Whatever it might be, it creates an opportunity for us,” Healy added. Nothing has slowed AvenueWest down since Healy became CEO in 2017; the company has grown to manage $150 million in residential assets (supporting $10M annually in residential leasing) and ranked 435th on the Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Company list for 2021. “We’ve actually made the list a total of five times now, but twice consecutively in 2020 and 2021,” Healy proclaims. “So, even though we faced the pandemic with that initial slowdown in the March/ April timeframe because we have that 30-day notice in place, people were pretty much ready to start moving their employees once those expired. It was a very temporary dip.” Creating solutions and making business possible through innovation are special vendors who contribute before, during, and after all leasing transactions. Topping the list for