str market mapLocal property managers and hospitality entrepreneurs want national brand recognition, proven technology, and shared operational systems, but assembling all of that independently is capital-intensive and slow.
Casago is a vacation rental management company built on a franchise model, letting locally owned management businesses run under a shared brand with a technology package, an operations playbook, and multi-channel distribution.
Franchisees receive a technology package covering reservations, channel distribution, an owner portal, and guest services, plus recruitment support and distribution across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and more than 25 additional listing sites. Each location is locally owned: the franchisee handles property onboarding, guest services, and owner relationships in-market while drawing on shared infrastructure. Casago acquired Vacasa in 2025, and has since transitioned the former Vacasa markets into local franchise ownership under the same structure.
Experienced local property managers and hospitality entrepreneurs across North America, Belize, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean who want a franchise structure with an established brand, technology, and operational support rather than building those systems alone.
Evolve acquired roughly 1,000 homeowner contracts from Casago, moving those properties onto Evolve's management model. The transfer follows Casago's absorption of the Vacasa portfolio earlier in the year.
Event date: 2025-11-25 · Summary published: 2026-09-10 · Source: Skift (original report)
Casago, Vacasa and Inhabit announced an expanded partnership under which Streamline serves as the primary property management system across the combined network, described as covering 40,000 property owners. Casago chief executive Steve Schwab framed it as continuing an existing partnership rather than a new one.
Event date: 2025-07-03 · Summary published: 2026-08-20 · Source: Inhabit (original report)
Casago completed its acquisition of Vacasa at 5.30 dollars per share, ending Vacasa's run as a public company. Casago founder and chief executive Steve Schwab leads the combined company, which the companies said manages more than 40,000 properties across North America, Belize, Costa Rica and the Caribbean. Vacasa continues to operate under its own brand as a Casago company.
Event date: 2025-05-01 · Summary published: 2026-08-20 · Source: Vacasa (original report)
Vacasa and Casago announced a definitive merger agreement under which Casago would acquire all outstanding Vacasa shares held by public stockholders for 5.02 dollars per share in cash, taking Vacasa private and removing it from the Nasdaq. The price was later revised upward to 5.30 dollars per share in March 2025 after a competing proposal from Davidson Kempner Capital Management.
Event date: 2024-12-30 · Summary published: 2026-08-20 · Source: Vacasa (original report)
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