The People Behind Lake & Peak
Queenstown Airbnb & Holiday Home Management
We've called Queenstown home for over a decade. That matters in this work - knowing how the town runs, when each season really starts, and what a southerly front does to a check-in day.
Lake & Peak is built on two crafts: revenue and photography. One sets what each night is worth. The other makes sure your home is seen the way it deserves to be. Between them sits everything else - guests, cleaning, maintenance - handled by a small team we lead ourselves, with trusted local cleaning and trade partners who've worked our standards for years.
Carmen Triisa
Co-founder |
Photography & Guest Experience
Carmen has photographed more than 60 short-term rentals in Queenstown. She now shoots exclusively for Lake & Peak - every listing in the portfolio is her work, refreshed as homes and seasons change, not shot once and left to age.
Photography came first as a craft of its own - years of learning how light moves through a room, when a space photographs best, and how to hold the feeling of being there in a frame. Queenstown gives her four seasons to work with, and she uses all of them.
Alongside it, she spent more than a decade in hospitality leadership roles, running teams through Queenstown's busiest seasons - where she learned what guests actually notice: the first thirty seconds through the door, the things nobody mentions in reviews but everyone feels.
The two came together in how she shoots: from where a guest would stand, selling how a space feels rather than what it measures. It's the pairing behind the portfolio's reviews.
Janno Nurme
Co-founder |
Revenue & Strategy
Janno came up through the operations side of commercial accommodation - opening properties from empty to booked, and running operations including maintenance, leading a team of fifty along the way.
From there he moved into revenue, leading pricing and distribution strategy for a national portfolio of 13 properties - more than 1,800 beds across New Zealand's top tourism destinations, Queenstown among them. It's a rare route: pricing decisions made by someone who's run the buildings behind the numbers.
The work itself is a daily discipline: reading demand as it moves, watching pacing and lead times, knowing when to hold a rate and when to move it. At that scale, guesswork is expensive - you learn to price on evidence, and to be honest about what the numbers actually say.
He co-founded Lake & Peak to run the whole spectrum at a different scale: a small portfolio of Queenstown homes, each priced carefully, for the value it deserves against the market.