The leading Swedish portal operator Hemnet has been criticised for launching a "sell first, pay later" offer and a Zillow-esque partnership programme. Hemnet has been piloting a model where sellers...
Independent Franchise Partners (IFP) has raided Rightmove for a circa 6 per cent stake in the business, making it the third largest shareholder in the under-pressure marketplace operator. The activist...
This week's Product Roundup is all about Europe. We'll start with Spain's market-leading portal, idealista... Europe: idealista adds online room booking and insurance for tenants Idealista has launched an...
Baltic Classifieds Group, which operates over a dozen leading classifieds platforms in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, has released typically strong results for the first six months of the 2026 financial...
Scout24, the operator of leading German portal ImmoScout24, has approved a new share buy-back programme of up to €500 million and is tightening the timetable on its existing 2025 buy-back,...
Sweden’s leading property portal Hemnet is rolling out a “sell first, pay later” model and chain-level broker partnerships in a bid to pull more inventory into the portal’s pre-market layer...
The American real estate portal Redfin has opted to keep controversial climate risk data on its listings, even though its rival-cum-partner Zillow took the opposite decision earlier this week. Redfin...
AVIV Group runs some of Europe's most important real estate marketplaces. Along with SeLoger in France and Immoweb in Belgium, the former Axel Springer offshoot also operates immowelt, considered a...
Realestate.com.au has introduced realAssist, an AI-powered conversational companion designed to help homeowners interpret their realEstimate property valuation and receive guidance on next steps in their property journey. The new assistant,...
Two antitrust lawsuits concerning Zillow's multifamily rental agreement with the portal operator Redfin have been consolidated after a judge granted a motion to merge separate cases brought by the Federal...
Apax Partners has signed a deal to acquire Israeli horizontal marketplace Yad2 from KKR for around $950 million, according to local reports, bringing one of 2025’s most closely watched classifieds...
Zillow has removed a feature showing extreme weather risks on listings for over one million homes after an MLS provider said it was "suspicious" of the data powering the feature....
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