Demand is the easy part. Every city has people who need four months somewhere.
What differs is the law underneath the stay. A furnished tenancy of 30 days to a year sits in a different place in every rental code we have read: some treat it as an ordinary residential lease, some carve out a mobility or short-stay regime, some regulate it as accommodation, and a few set notice periods and deposit caps that a naive product would breach on its first booking.
What a city needs before it opens
- 01
Read the rental code
Which agreement type a 30-day to twelve-month furnished stay falls under, and what it obliges each side to do.
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Encode the rules
Deposit caps, notice periods, registration duties, and permitted stay lengths become configuration the booking flow enforces — not guidance in a help article.
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Generate the lease
The agreement a guest signs is produced from the property’s own jurisdiction, so a Seoul stay and a Paris stay do not sign the same document.
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Verify the first homes
Ownership and address checks run on real inventory before anything is listed publicly.
The default is no
Where we have not encoded a jurisdiction’s rules, the platform permits nothing rather than falling back to a generic lease. It is the slower way to open a market and the only honest one.
Where that has us today
Plextell is live across cities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and South Africa — Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Calgary, New York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Miami, London, Paris, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, São Paulo, and Cape Town.
The pattern is deliberate: dense clusters in a handful of countries rather than a single listing in fifty. Depth is what makes a city usable to someone who needs a home next month.
Journalists asking about a specific market: we are happy to walk through how that city’s rules are encoded. Our media contact is on the press page.
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