Swiss Marketplace Group has reached an amicable agreement with Switzerland’s Price Supervisor, bringing informal investigations into Ricardo and SMG’s real estate platforms to an end. The deal delivers regulatory certainty...
Zoopla has locked in a new five-year agreement with Connells Group, ensuring that the UK’s largest estate agency network continues to list all of its properties on the portal. The...
Real estate portal stocks have been a pretty safe bet for a long time. Companies like Hemnet, Scout24 and REA Group have a model beloved by investors and the network...
Realtor.com CEO Damien Eales says the United States needs four million more homes amid a housing crisis. "America is short 4 million homes [and] active inventory remains roughly 12% below...
The Hungarian aggregator Reálmonitor has won a lawsuit against the country's leading real estate vertical, Ingatlan.com. A court ruling concluded that aggregators, including Árminimum.hu and the mobile application Ingatlanhiredes Figyelő—both...
Zillow has challenged a recent study that alleged its Zillow Home Loans (ZHL) products are overpriced and discriminatory, defending itself against flawed methodology and a misleading dataset. Professor Steven Salop...
A new study alleges that Zillow's Home Loans (ZHL) products are more expensive than the industry norm, with consumers paying between 10-15% more for a Zillow Home Loans mortgage than...
This week's people roundup features C-suite appointments in Europe and Asia. We'll start in Germany... Europe: Immowelt appoints new CMO Immowelt, the German real estate marketplace owned by Aviv...
There's only one product update we can start with this week... North America: Google tests real estate listings Google tested a small number of real estate listings over the...
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...
On the PPW Podcast, we talk a lot about the future of real estate search and more than once, we've mentioned a future in which house hunters will have an...
Google put several for-sale listings directly into its search results on mobile devices over the weekend, after testing a new paid-for partnership with the AI-powered real estate brokerage HouseCanary. Google...
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