Established in 2012, NexMetro has built one of the most established track records in the build-to-rent industry — delivering results for investors and housing thousands of American families.
As the largest developer of purpose-built cottage-style rental home communities in America, our Class-A multifamily projects are strategically located in high-growth U.S. submarkets. Our founders built a company around a vision of redefining traditional multifamily living by blending the convenience of apartment living with the privacy and lifestyle of a home.
Our purpose has roots in Tucson, Arizona, where a group of entrepreneurial visionaries saw what others missed — a growing gap between what renters wanted and what the market was delivering. Consumers weren’t just looking for a place to live. They were looking for a lifestyle.
Understanding the limitations in the rental market, our founders set out to build something better: attainable, design-forward build-to-rent communities where renters by choice could truly feel at home. Today, NexMetro brings that same founding vision to investors and residents alike — creating communities that enrich lives and deliver lasting value.
JUL2025
NexMetro and its Avilla Homes brand wins 2025 Pets & Housing Award for Best Leap Forward, presented by the Michelson Found Animals Foundation Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative. The Pets and Housing Awards recognize the champions of pet-inclusive housing,
JAN2025
NexMetro closes on its 60th Avilla Homes project, representing sites in the Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Denver, Tampa and Atlanta markets.
DEC2024
NexMetro Communities wins 1st Place in the Phoenix Business Journal’s 2024 Best Places to Work Awards, Small Company category, for the second consecutive year.
SEP2024
NexMetro exceeds $2.6B in invested capital.
JUN2024
NexMetro surpasses the 10,000 unit mark of projects completed, under construction, and in development.
MAR2024
NexMetro Communities was named Best Real Estate Workplace Culture (142 AZ Workforce or fewer) in Ranking Arizona: The Best of Arizona Buisness 2024.
DEC2023
NexMetro Communities wins 1st Place in the Phoenix Business Journal’s 2024 Best Places to Work Awards, Small Company category, for the second consecutive year.
OCT2023
NexMetro expands its employee count to 65 team members.
AUG2023
NexMetro's Avilla Canyon (Phoenix, AZ) was crowned winner of the 2023 Arizona Multihousing Association (AMA) Tribute Award for Best Design in the Developer Build-to-Rent category.
MAY2023
NexMetro closes on its 50th Avilla Homes project, representing sites in the Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Denver, Tampa and Atlanta markets.
MAY2023
NexMetro closes on the first Avilla parcel in the San Antonio, Texas market.
MAR2023
NexMetro exceeds $2B in invested capital.
FEB2023
Josh Hartmann serves as CEO and now also Board Member of NexMetro, the country's leading developer of single-family rentals. He brings more than 25 years of real estate management and development to this role and is using that background to create innovative home solutions in the country's hottest housing markets. He is responsible for developing and implementing both short and long-term business strategies to ensure the company's continued growth, effectiveness, and sustainability.
FEB2023
Helaine Levy has more than 30 years of business leadership experience and proven success as a visionary, problem solver, and strategic partner. As Principal of Diamond Ventures, Inc, one of Arizona's most successful real estate development companies (residential, commercial and industrial), Levy helps to guide the Tucson-based company, including its private equity investments. Levy's additional investment experience includes the management of her family's multigenerational office and investments.
NOV2022
NexMetro Communities celebrates its 10-year anniversary as the pioneer of build-to-rent communities.
SEP2022
NexMetro closes on the first Avilla parcel in the Atlanta, Georgia market.
MAY2022
NexMetro closes on the first Avilla parcel in the Austin, Texas market.
OCT2021
NexMetro closes on its 40th Avilla Homes project, representing sites in the Phoenix, Dallas, Denver and Tampa markets.
SEP2020
NexMetro exceeds $1B in invested capital.
JUN2020
NexMetro closes on the first Avilla parcel in Tampa, Florida market.
JUL2019
NexMetro closes on its 30th Avilla Homes project, representing sites in the Phoenix, Dallas, Denver and Tampa markets.
MAY2019
NexMetro surpasses $1B in assets under management and in escrow.
APR2019
NexMetro surpasses the 5,000 unit mark of projects completed, under construction, and in development.
APR2019
NexMetro opens first Denver metro project, Avilla Buffalo Run in Commerce City.
JAN2019
Josh Hartmann is named CEO of NexMetro; Founder and first CEO Ken Abrahams is named Executive Chairman of the NexMetro board of directors.
OCT2018
NexMetro closes on its 20th Avilla Homes project, with sites in metro Phoenix, Dallas, Denver and Tampa.
JUL2018
NexMetro sells its first three projects in Metro Phoenix for $98M - setting submarket per-door records.
JUL2018
NexMetro delivers its 1,000th home, surpassing volume of many single family builders.
FEB2017
NexMetro opens Avilla Premier in Plano, TX representing the first Avilla Homes expansion outside of Arizona.
JAN2017
Dr. Howard Rossman is the Vice Chairman of Mesirow Financial Holdings Inc. and the founder and past CEO and Chairman of Mesirow Advanced Strategies, Inc., one of the largest fund of hedge funds in the world. In those roles, he was a member of the investment, executive and management committees and responsible for all aspects of organizational management, including due diligence, strategic analysis and planning and market development.
AUG2015
Avilla Palm Valley opens in Goodyear, AZ as the first Avilla Homes neighborhood in Metro Phoenix under the NexMetro flag.
NOV2012
NexMetro Communities LLC is formed, with headquarters in Phoenix.
NexMetro has redefined how people live in and invest in rental housing through a differentiated real estate platform.
Our investment strategy is designed to capitalize on the long-term transformation of the U.S. housing market, combining institutional-quality execution with scalable, resilient cottage-style multifamily real estate investments.
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