Standard One hosted a company visit for the HŌLDERS business club

On 24 September, Standard One and organised a company visit to the S1 Obolon rental building. Participants saw how a systematic rental housing business works – from creating the product and construction through to sales, professional property management and working with investors.the HŌLDERS business club

The guests were entrepreneurs and HŌLDERS members. The meeting opened with a presentation by Standard One’s commercial director , who talked about how the Build-to-Rent model is developing in Ukraine and Standard One’s experience of building a systematic rental property business.Nadiya Rybakova

In the traditional development model, a developer’s involvement with a building largely ends once the flat is sold. Build-to-Rent is different: what matters is managing the whole product lifecycle, from site selection and design to fitting out the flat, moving tenants in, service and ongoing management. That is why Standard One works for two audiences at once: for tenants, it creates high-quality homes with services; for investors, an asset that does not need constant hands-on management.

The Standard One model rests on a standardised product and on continually improving each new project. The team analyses data on how the buildings operate, how tenants behave and what investors ask for, and uses what it learns in each new development. As the presentation put it: ‘We’re not scaling up individual buildings. We’re scaling up the standard.’

After the presentation, participants moved on to S1 Obolon itself: , looked at the floor plans and interiors, and discussed how individual product features affect the comfort of future residents, rental demand and the property’s value to its owner. The format let them see, quite literally, the link between product decisions and the company’s business logic.visited the building site and the showroom

The meeting closed with an open Q&A session with the Standard One team and informal networking over a buffet. The entrepreneurs discussed the economics of the model, rental property management and the development of the rental building segment in Ukraine.

For Standard One, this meeting is a chance to talk about property openly and transparently, show the value of the product and give a glimpse of its business model and services. After all, in today’s rental housing, value comes not from a single flat but from the whole system: the product, standards, management, data and the ability to scale.

We would like to thank the HŌLDERS team and members for their partnership, thought-provoking questions, open discussion and genuine interest in how Standard One works from the inside.