Germany's rental market needs a new operating layer.
Domily turns renting into one structured workflow for tenants, landlords, and property managers.
The status quo
Today, renting is held together by hand.
A single tenancy is spread across portals, inboxes, PDFs and paper. Nothing carries between stages, so everyone starts over.
The search is a maze
Scattered portals, blind applications, mass viewings and inboxes that never reply. Months of effort, and everyone starts again from zero.
Nothing carries over
A signed lease should be a fresh start. Instead the same names, documents and details are typed in again by hand at every step.
Then it runs for years
Once the keys turn, the manager inherits the mess: a spreadsheet per building, requests across a dozen inboxes, rent chased by hand, until the tenancy ends and it all begins again.
We propose a new rental model
One journey, from the first listing to long-term management.
We bring the entire rental journey into a single thread, so every stage flows into the next instead of starting over.
- 01
One search
every home in a single place
- 02
The right match
homes that actually fit surface first
- 03
One profile
documents ready, sent in a click
- 04
Clear Viewing Schedule
minimal 'no-shows'
- 05
Transparency
status is visible the whole way
- 06
Management begins
documents, money, reports in a single hub
- 07
Automation
rent, requests and repairs carry forward
- 08
Precise billing
statements generated on time
- 09
Held for years
every record connected, start to finish
The arc
A rental in three acts.
Every rental in Germany follows the same arc. It begins in the search, turns at the keys, and holds across the years.
The Search
Listings going up, documents going out, the back-and-forth that ends at "yes."
The Keys
The handover, the signature, the day a home becomes someone's home.
The Years
Living, paying, fixing, holding the home together across portfolios and seasons.
The people behind renting
Three groups, one shared lifecycle.
Renting is not one audience. It is a relationship between people with different needs who all move through the same process.
Tenants
Searching, applying and communicating.
People looking for a place to live, hoping to be heard among the hundreds of others applying for the same home.
Landlords
Finding suitable tenants and managing rental processes.
Owners who want the right tenant and a process that does not consume their evenings.
Property Managers
Managing portfolios, operations and ongoing relationships.
Professionals running many homes at once, holding the whole operation together.
Tenants, landlords and property managers all participate in the same renting lifecycle. When their experience is connected, the whole process works better for everyone.
Where Domily comes in
From the moment a home is listed to the day it's managed, renting is one experience.
The renting side carries discovery, applications, and the conversations that turn into a signed contract. The property management side carries the operational work: workflows, documents, and the everyday administration of running a home well. They meet in the middle, where finding a place to live becomes living in one.
The vision
Connected renting, for everyone in it.
Domily connects tenants, landlords and property managers across the whole rental lifecycle, so the work done at one step carries into the next instead of starting over.
For tenants
Finding and securing a home becomes calmer, clearer and less repetitive.
For landlords
The right tenant and a smooth process, without the administrative weight.
For property managers
A connected operation that holds together across years and portfolios.
The scale
Three sides of a single market.
Most German households rent their home. Behind every one of those rentals sit the same three audiences, and they all live on Domily.
~40M
Tenants
Tens of millions of people live in rented households across Germany.
Destatis · Zensus 2022
~3M
Landlords
Mostly private individuals, not institutions. The supply side is highly fragmented.
DIW Berlin · 2022
~25K
Property managers
A highly fragmented operational layer of independent firms running long-term tenancies across every region.
Statista · BVI · DDIV, 2023
See the experience end to end.
From a home being listed to the day-to-day of managing it, follow how the whole renting experience comes together.