# NestAway NRI Property Management Review 2026: Prime vs Lite By Saurabh Garg, founder·10 min read·Published 2026-06-11·Updated 2026-08-10 **Short answer:** NestAway's NRI owner page offers two plans, Prime and Lite, covering listing, tenant screening, rent collection, quarterly condition videos and move-out oversight. It publishes no price for either plan, no fee percentage, no FAQ and no named city list. This review is written by a competitor and says so at the top. Read it against NestAway's own page. # NestAway NRI Property Management Review: What the Page Promises and What It Leaves Out **NestAway's NRI owner page sells two plans, Prime and Lite, and publishes the price of neither.** Everything else on that page is legible: eight services, a four-step onboarding, twelve feature rows in the plan table, a phone number and a WhatsApp line. The money is the one thing missing. This review works through what the page commits to, what it stays quiet about, and the questions you should put to their sales team before you post keys to Bangalore. Every claim below comes from NestAway's own public pages, read on 10 August 2026, and from press coverage of the company's 2023 sale. Links are at the bottom so you can check each one. **Disclosure: a competitor wrote this review.** 66 MG Road manages India property for NRI owners and competes with NestAway for the same owners. We have kept this to what their page states and what it does not state. No invented complaints, no unverifiable anecdotes, no guessed prices. Discount our judgment as you see fit and verify the facts yourself. ## What the NestAway NRI page offers The page opens on the right problem. Its headline asks whether you are spending your vacation on tenant issues, which is the actual experience of an owner who flies in for two weeks in December and spends four days of it at a police station and a society office. Eight services are listed. No travel required, with eSignature on the paperwork. No broker or family member in the loop. A relationship manager. Free listing across portals. Tenant screening and move-in support. Quarterly property condition videos. Move-out oversight. Faster re-letting between tenants. The plan table splits those across two tiers. Both Prime and Lite carry portal listing, on-field visit assistance, a digital payment platform and the tenancy agreement with move-in help. Prime adds the eight rows that matter most to an absent owner: digital tenant KYC and background verification, rent collection and remittance, service-request handling, shared-room tenancy management, move-out and restoration, a relationship manager with quarterly inspection, account e-statements, and an owner community membership. Read that split once more. Under Lite, nobody collects your rent and nobody verifies your tenant. Lite is a listing product with a payment page attached. If you are abroad, Prime is the only line on that table that answers the question the headline asked. ## Who owns NestAway now This is the part of the decision that is not on the page. Aurum PropTech agreed in June 2023 to acquire up to 100% of NestAway Technologies for up to ₹90 crore, with a further ₹30 crore to stabilise the business, as reported by Business Standard. Entrackr put that price at a 95% cut on the about $227 million valuation NestAway carried at its 2019 round, and reported revenue from operations falling 47% to ₹57.87 crore in FY22 from ₹108.9 crore in FY20. None of that makes NestAway a bad manager today. A distressed sale into a listed parent can be the start of a turnaround, and Aurum put fresh money in. It does mean the brand on the page and the company behind it are not the company that raised from Tiger Global and Ratan Tata. If a page shows you 50,000-plus NRI owners and 100,000-plus houses rented, ask which of those numbers are current and which are lifetime totals carried over from the pre-2023 business. That is a fair question and a manager with clean books can answer it in one line. ## Where the page goes thin These are statements about what NestAway's public page does not say. Test each one in your sales call rather than taking our word for it. No published price. Neither Prime nor Lite carries a fee, a percentage, an onboarding charge or a minimum. Every other decision you make about a manager depends on this number, and you cannot compare a manager you cannot price. See our breakdown of [how NRI property management is charged in India](/guides/nri-property-management-cost-india) for the four models you will be quoted under. No repair policy. Twelve feature rows cover service-request handling and property restoration. None of them says who pays for a repair, whether vendor work carries a markup, whether you approve spending above a floor, or whether you get the receipt. Repair markup is where a 5% headline fee becomes 12%. No named city list on the page. The counter says five cities in India. The site footer lists eleven cities across rentals. Ask which five, and ask whether your property's city is one of them or is covered by a partner. No FAQ, no plan of record. There is no FAQ block, no terms link and no sample owner statement anywhere on the page. Your first sight of the contract is after you have handed over your details. No exit terms. Nothing on notice period, lock-in, or what happens to your keys, your tenant and your deposit if you leave mid-tenancy. Exit is the term you will care about most and the one nobody publishes. A separate point, and a softer one. NestAway carries a long public complaints record on the consumer boards, from tenants, about deposit refunds and deductions at move-out. We are not going to quantify it, because a complaints board is a self-selected sample and a competitor counting entries on it is not evidence. Read it yourself, weigh it yourself, and ask how deposit deductions are decided and who holds the deposit while the tenancy runs. ## The custody question One structural fact sits behind all five gaps, and it applies to every platform in this category, ours included. A managed-rental platform that collects rent and holds deposits sits in the middle of your money. That is convenient when it works. It is also the single point where an owner's problem stops being fixable by an email. If rent lands with the platform first and reaches you second, then a bad quarter at the platform is a bad quarter for your rent, and you find out late because you are eight time zones away. The test is simple. Ask where the tenant's rent physically lands, whose account holds the deposit, and how many days pass between the tenant paying and you seeing it in your NRO account. Then ask for a sample statement showing a real month with the fee as its own line. A manager who bills the fee outside your rent can show you this in one attachment. A manager who nets the fee off the top has no such line to show. ## How 66 MG Road differs, in plain words We will hold ourselves to the same standard applied above. Our prices are on the page. A one-time Property Health Check at ₹20,000, with no keys and no power of attorney. Tenancy placement at one month's rent. Full management at 5% of monthly rent, minimum ₹2,500 per property per month. Concierge+ at 8%, minimum ₹4,000, for the tax, TDS and repatriation paperwork. Those figures are published at [pricing](/pricing) and every property gets an itemised written proposal before you commit. Repairs pass through at cost. You set an approval floor, your manager gets quotes above it, and you get dated before and after photos with the receipt. The fee is billed to you as its own line and is never deducted off the top of the rent. Our geography is narrow and we say so. Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Gurgaon, with our own people on the ground in Bangalore and Hyderabad and vetted partners in the rest. Owner hubs in Singapore and Dubai. What we do not have. We are a fraction of NestAway's size, we have no marketplace, no decade of history, and no wall of testimonials, because our own rules bar us from publishing client counts and reviews we cannot evidence. Those sections stay empty until real data fills them. We do not offer guaranteed rent and we do not hold your deposit at scale. If a large tenant pipeline and a single app for everything is your actual problem, a platform the size of NestAway fits better than we do. ## Five questions to ask either of us Send these by email so the answers are in writing. - What is your total annual cost on my property, including onboarding, renewal and any per-visit charge? - Do you mark up vendor repairs, and will you send me the vendor's own receipt? - Where does my tenant's rent land first, and on what day of the month does it reach my NRO account? - Who holds the security deposit, and who decides deductions at move-out? - What is the notice period to leave, and what do I get back on the way out? An operator who answers all five in one reply is worth more than a page of statistics. Our longer version of this is the [checklist for verifying a property manager in India](/guides/how-to-verify-a-property-manager-india-nri). ## Verdict NestAway's NRI page describes a real product, and Prime looks like a workable answer for an owner who wants one app, a relationship manager and quarterly video of the flat. The problem is that you cannot evaluate it from the page. No price, no repair policy, no exit terms and no named cities means the sales call carries the entire decision, and sales calls are where uncommitted promises live. Get the five answers above in writing, from them and from us. Then compare, using our [four-way comparison of managers, platforms and brokers](/guides/nobroker-vs-housewise-vs-66mgroad-vs-broker). ## FAQ **Does NestAway publish the cost of its NRI property management plans?** No. As of 10 August 2026, the NestAway NRI owner page shows a twelve-row feature comparison between the Prime and Lite plans with no price, percentage or minimum for either. You have to contact their sales team to get a number. **What is the difference between NestAway Prime and Lite?** Both plans include portal listing, on-field visit assistance, digital payment tracking and the tenancy agreement with move-in help. Prime adds tenant KYC and background verification, rent collection and remittance, service-request handling, shared-room tenancy management, move-out and restoration, a relationship manager with quarterly inspection, account e-statements and community membership. For an owner living abroad, Prime is the only one of the two that manages anything. **Who owns NestAway now?** Aurum PropTech. It agreed in June 2023 to acquire up to 100% of NestAway Technologies for up to ₹90 crore, with a further ₹30 crore committed to stabilise the business, per Business Standard. Entrackr reported the price as a 95% cut on NestAway's about $227 million 2019 valuation. **Is NestAway safe for an NRI landlord?** That is a question about your specific property and their current terms, not one a competitor should answer for you. What you can do is test the money path: ask where rent lands first, who holds the deposit, who decides move-out deductions, and how many days pass before the money reaches your NRO account. Get it in writing before you send keys. **Which cities does NestAway cover for NRI owners?** The NRI owner page states five cities in India without naming them, while the site footer lists eleven cities across its rental business. Ask them to name the five and confirm your property's city in writing. **What is a good alternative to NestAway for an NRI owner?** Price and proof are the two tests, not brand size. Look for a published fee, repairs passed through at cost with receipts, a named person accountable for your property, and stated exit terms. Our list of [NRI property management companies in India](/guides/best-nri-property-management-companies-india) applies that test to each option, including us. --- **Want the five questions above answered before you pay anyone?** That is the default at 66 MG Road. One property, one named manager, every rupee a line item, and the price on the page. [See pricing](/pricing). *Saurabh Garg, founder, 66 MG Road* ## Sources - NestAway NRI property management page, read 10 August 2026 (Prime vs Lite table, eight services, five-cities counter): [https://www.nestaway.com/owner/nri-property-management](https://www.nestaway.com/owner/nri-property-management) - Business Standard, Aurum PropTech to acquire NestAway for ₹90 crore plus ₹30 crore infusion: [https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/aurum-proptech-to-fully-acquire-home-rental-platform-nestaway-for-rs-90-cr-123060200300_1.html](https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/aurum-proptech-to-fully-acquire-home-rental-platform-nestaway-for-rs-90-cr-123060200300_1.html) - Entrackr, Aurum acquires NestAway at a 95% valuation cut (FY22 revenue ₹57.87 crore, FY20 ₹108.9 crore): [https://entrackr.com/2023/06/aurum-acquires-tiger-global-backed-nestaway-at-95-valuation-cut/](https://entrackr.com/2023/06/aurum-acquires-tiger-global-backed-nestaway-at-95-valuation-cut/) - TechCrunch, NestAway acquired by Aurum PropTech: [https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/nestaway-aurum](https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/nestaway-aurum) - NestAway Technologies public complaints listing, consumercomplaints.in: [https://www.consumercomplaints.in/nestaway-technologies-b115453](https://www.consumercomplaints.in/nestaway-technologies-b115453) - 66 MG Road pricing: [https://66mgroad.com/pricing](https://66mgroad.com/pricing) Information on this page is as on 2026-08-10. Rules, rates, deadlines and government portals change without notice, so verify against the official source before you act. This page is for information only. It is not tax or legal advice, and it is not a substitute for a qualified adviser who knows your position. ## Compare and cost - [The NRI Property Management Companies in India: A Comparison You Can Check](/guides/best-nri-property-management-companies-india) - [What NRI Property Management Costs in India: The Four Models and What Hides in Each](/guides/nri-property-management-cost-india) - [NoBroker NRI Services Review: What the Pages Promise and What They Leave Out](/guides/nobroker-nri-services-review) --- Source: [https://66mgroad.com/guides/nestaway-nri-property-management-review](https://66mgroad.com/guides/nestaway-nri-property-management-review) · 66 MG Road. Full LLM brief: https://66mgroad.com/llms.txt