Who owns Carefree Rent?
Carefree Rent is owned by KE Holdings (China, NYSE: BEKE).[1]
Evidence: KE Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- KE Holdings Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Category
- Real estate › Brokerage & services › Property services
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: BEKE HKEX: 2423
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Carefree Rent
Carefree Rent is the decentralised rental property management business inside KE Holdings' home rental services. Under it, KE obtains authorisation from landlords to manage their properties and provides rental services to tenants, and the 20-F says early termination of a landlord or tenant agreement can mean paying damages. The business was developed at scale in the second half of 2022.
How often KE Holdings names Carefree Rent in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Carefree Rent
- Current owner KE Holdings [1] verified
Where Carefree Rent sits in KE Holdings
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by KE Holdings
KE Holdings controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in real estate.
Also in real estate
Other brands in property services, and who owns them
The 18 brands in property services on Brandtree belong to 7 owners. The largest is Douglas Elliman, with 5; KE Holdings has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DE Title Services | Douglas Elliman | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Encompass Lending | Fathom Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cushman & Wakefield | Cushman & Wakefield | 🇧🇲 Bermuda |
| Offerpad | Offerpad | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Opendoor | Opendoor | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Rocket Close | Rocket Companies | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Douglas Elliman Development Marketing | Douglas Elliman | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Elliman Capital | Douglas Elliman | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: KE Holdings
KE Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China, founded in 2001. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: BEKE and HKEX: 2423.
KE Holdings is a Cayman Islands holding company, trading as Beike, whose principal executive offices are in Beijing. Its 20-F for the year to 31 December 2025 says it began operating in 2001 through Beijing Lianjia, and that its housing transactions platform had about 58,000 active brokerage stores and over 445,000 active agents at year end, with gross transaction value of RMB3,183.3 billion for 2025. Its ADSs have traded on the NYSE since August 2020 and its Class A shares in Hong Kong since May 2022.
🇨🇳 Carefree Rent and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 327 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Carefree Rent is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Carefree Rent?
The parent company of Carefree Rent is KE Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Carefree Rent Chinese?
Yes. Carefree Rent originated in China and its owner, KE Holdings, is also headquartered in China.
Is Carefree Rent still owned by KE Holdings?
Yes. As of 17 October 2026, Carefree Rent is still owned by KE Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] KE Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 24 April 2026; retrieved 17 October 2026.
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