Mirko Gropp
General Manager – Digital, Data and Technology, The Living Company
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The Living Company
Formerly Scape Australia (until 2025)
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The UI Was the Moat: Mirko Gropp, GM of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living CompanyAbout The Living Company
The Living Company, formerly Scape, is a Sydney-based developer, owner-operator and fund manager of residential property in Australia. It runs Scape, the student accommodation business that Stephen Gaitanos and Craig Carracher founded in 2013, and Aveo, the retirement village operator it bought from Brookfield in 2025 for A$3.85 billion. It also develops build-to-rent housing, including the planned 1,166-apartment Marrickville Timberyards project in Sydney.
- Sector
- Residential property: student accommodation, build-to-rent and retirement living
- Business model
- Developer, owner-operator and fund manager
- Founded
- 2013 (as Scape)
- Founders
- Stephen Gaitanos, Craig Carracher
- Headquarters
- Sydney
- Markets
- Australia
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