SeLoger Wins Court Ruling Against Jinka Over Unauthorised Listing Scraping

The Versailles Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Digital Classifieds France, the operator behind SeLoger, Logic-Immo and Belles Demeures, in a long-running dispute with Jinka over the unauthorised extraction and reuse of property listings.

The decision confirms that Jinka, operated by Babel France, unlawfully scraped real estate advertisements from Digital Classifieds France’s platforms over several years, without consent and in breach of database producer rights. In the court’s view, the practices amounted to copyright infringement and were therefore illegal.

According to a press release put out by SeLoger, the ruling orders the immediate cessation of all extraction activity and requires Jinka to delete any listings or data sourced from SeLoger and its sister sites, both from its application and its website. Jinka has also been ordered to pay €60,000 in damages to Digital Classifieds France and must publish the court decision online to inform users of the outcome.

For SeLoger and its parent company, AVIV Group, the judgment reinforces a long-standing position that listing data is not free for the taking, even in an ecosystem increasingly shaped by aggregation, alerts and AI-driven discovery.

Reacting to the ruling, SeLoger’s chief executive Baptiste Capron positioned the case as about more than just intellectual property.

“This decision protects not only our platforms and the content uploaded by real estate agents, but also the trust of our users. Respect for the law and the fair use of data are essential to guaranteeing a healthy digital real estate market. We will continue to strongly defend our brands and databases, as well as the integrity of the listings published by our clients on our websites and apps.”

Founded in 2016, Jinka is an app-based aggregator of real estate listings that claims to have listings from all French portals. The company's model relies on sending email alerts to its users when the app finds a new listing that matches the user's criteria.

The latest ruling is not the first time that Jinka has fallen foul of litigation brought by established portals. In 2024, Jinka was fined in a local court for scraping listings from Adevinta-owned Leboncoin.