Recently we caught up with Erik Backer, Co-Founder and CEO of Portal.chat at the 24th Property Portal Watch Conference in Madrid.

Co-founder, Nick Marr stated: “We’ve always loved the idea of offering our customers and the general public the chance to own a share in the company, but the timing has never been quite right, until now.

Milano-based BOOM Image Studio is a Prop Tech marketplace connecting professional photographers with businesses worldwide.

Over the three days, online real estate classifieds and marketplaces giants listened to speakers present on this year's theme of "From Classifieds to MARKETPLACES."

According to its Annual Report, the Group's revenue increased 20% to AUD807.7 million, and EBITDA increased by 22%, finishing the year at AUD463.7 million.

PropTech powerhouse Ohmyhome celebrates two years of disrupting norms and recreating the home transaction experience through its one-stop solution for simpler, faster and more affordable housing transactions.

Initially, Zumper began like any other classic search website, but about a year ago the company introduced the second half of the portal, which is intended to make Zumper as easy to use as a hotel rental website.

Juwai has recently announced the launch of the Global Chinese Choice Awards! This inaugural annual awards programme is intended to spotlight the industry’s finest and most accomplished professionals. The company stated that the coveted titles of excellence will be given to only the best in 6 highly-regarded categories, rewarding China-centric residential developers, agencies, and property-related professionals from around the world. In an email to its subscribers, Juwai urged the reader to not miss out, "Showcase this recognition of excellence to 18 million high net worth Chinese investors via Digital, Print, TV campaigns as well as Offline events entitlements." With

Growing in tandem with the successful HDB resale segment, Ohmyhome is one of Singapore’s leading proptech marketplaces which provides comprehensive housing solutions to simplify housing transactions for buying, selling or renting. The DIY proptech portal has reached new milestones with HDB rental segment and shares feature instrumental for success. Since its launch in 2016, Ohmyhome claims it has recorded over 35,000 users actively chatting and searching rentals and more than 1,000 non-duplicate, active rental listings on its portal. Ohmyhome aims to alleviate the search-related problems faced by tenants and landlords by providing useful features and implementing a direct tenant-to-landlord approach.