Company

AvalonBay Communities

Type: public
Ticker: AVB · NYSE
Market value: $28B

AvalonBay Communities is public, listed as AVB on NYSE, in Real estate and housing.

What it sells: apartment communities.

In the language of this map it serves 1 solution — Rental housing — which between them relieve 2 human frictions.

Its neighbourhood

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Sells

Rental housingHousehold formation

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Need a shared home before you can afford to own oneHousehold formation
House yourself without parents and without savingsEarly adulthood

Trends favouring it

Housing affordability crisisAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.
Living aloneAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.
Office conversion and the reshaping of citiesCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.