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Apartment Investment and Management Company
Aimco owns and manages apartment buildings in the U.S., earning rent from residents and fees from the properties it operates.
Aimco is a real estate company that owns apartment buildings across the United States. People who live in its buildings pay rent every month, and that rent is the main way the company makes money. It focuses on multifamily properties — the industry term for apartment complexes — in markets where lots of people want to live and where rents tend to hold up well.
The company doesn't just own buildings and let them sit. It develops new apartment projects, redevelops older properties to make them more valuable, and manages the day-to-day operations of buildings it partly owns on behalf of investment partners. That last part matters: Aimco earns fees for managing properties for other investors, which spreads the cost of running a large operation across more than just its own buildings. One thing worth knowing is that Aimco is a much smaller, leaner company than it used to be. It split off its main apartment business into a separate company in 2020, and a later merger reshaped it further. Today it operates more like a focused real estate investor and operator than the sprawling giant it once was. That makes it more of a smaller, opportunistic player in the apartment world, hunting for properties where it thinks it can add value by improving them.
Like all real estate owners, Aimco is sensitive to interest rates and the cost of borrowing, since buying and developing buildings usually takes a lot of debt. Its results depend on keeping apartments full and raising rents without pushing tenants out. It's a straightforward business at heart: fill buildings, collect rent, and make the properties worth more over time.
Saved answer · last researched 15 Nov 2026