Ex-Rightmove Innovation Chief Joins Housesimple

June 1, 2020

Hannes Buhrmann has joined British online agency Housesimple as the company’s Product Director. Buhrmann has 14 of experience working for Rightmove, including most recently as the company’s Head of Innovation. 

Commenting on his new role, Buhrmann said:

“To make Housesimple’s ambitions possible will require inventive, innovative, cost effective and scalable solutions that combine user-friendly technology with fantastic personal service.”

The online agency will be hoping that its new employee can bring some impetus to a company that as of January was £19 million in the red.

June 1, 2020
Since March 2020 Edmund's job has been to read about, write about, collect data on, analyse and generally know about real estate marketplaces and the companies that run them. Before that he worked at the aggregator Mitula Group (which became Lifull Connect) for five years.

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