Everything you need
to run the story.
Bios, headshots, fast facts and a downloadable speaker one-sheet. For interviews and bookings, contact the address below.
The numbers, plainly.
Three lengths. Copy and paste.
Short — 25 words
Marie Achebe is a London entrepreneur who built a 55-apartment short-let portfolio without owning property, and now teaches the system behind it.
Medium — 60 words
Marie Achebe is the founder of Marlex Apartments, House of Zalex and the Digital Property Boss Academy. From zero property ownership she built a portfolio of 55+ London short-let apartments through rental arbitrage, then turned the operating system behind it into an education platform. She is also the founder of the Achebe Hope Foundation.
Long — 120 words
Marie Achebe is a London-based entrepreneur known as the UK Airbnb Queen. Without owning a single property, she built Marlex Apartments into a portfolio of more than 55 short-let apartments serving corporate clients and international travellers, run on a single operating specification. She is the founder of House of Zalex, a quiet-luxury fashion label; the Digital Property Boss Academy, an execution-first property education platform; Achebe Africa Digital Academy, which equips Africans with globally tradeable digital skills; and Achebe Campus, a community learning platform. Through the Achebe Hope Foundation she supports women rebuilding without a safety net, orphanages and under-resourced schools. She speaks internationally on systems, ownership and building across borders.
Approved imagery.
Images may be used for editorial coverage of Marie Achebe with credit. Please do not crop, recolour or composite.
Booking or interviewing Marie?
Send the outline and the deadline. Press enquiries are answered within two business days.
For journalists, producers and programme organisers.
What Marie can speak to
The rent-to-rent and serviced-accommodation market in London. Building an operating business without owning the asset. Digital skills and remote earning across Africa. Independent fashion production. And running several ventures without any of them being a hobby.
How to reach the studio
Interview requests, comment, panel invitations and licensing all come through the contact page and are answered within two working days.
Assets
Headshots, biography and background material are available on request. Please do not use figures that do not appear in the material supplied.
- Two working days Including a no, when a no is the honest answer.
- Comment and interview Property, digital skills, independent fashion.
- Assets on request Headshots, biography and background.
- One door Everything through the contact page.
Press images.
The questions that come up.
Do you do same-day comment?
Sometimes. Say it is urgent in the subject line and it will be seen faster.
Can we use your photographs?
The supplied press images, yes. Photographs of the apartments and the label are licensed separately.