With their informal practices, under-professionalised agents and often chaotic bureaucracy, developing markets around the world are where housing marketplace companies with innovative models are thriving. Southeast Asia's alternative housing marketplaces...
The question of whether portals or agents should be the ones to push new immersive listings technology is one we've asked many times. What if the answer is for the...
We recently published a report on the businesses that real estate portals get into that are adjacent to their primary function of marketing homes. Below is a chart showing the types...
Technology is making traditional 'time-shares' with all of their problems and negative connotations a thing of the past. The concept of 'fractional-ownership' backed by a watertight legal framework and end-to-end...
Latin America, and Mexico in particular, is fast becoming a market of reference in the world of PropTech. It has outdated bureaucracy ripe for disruption and has seen headlines made...
Company: Scout24 - owner and operator of the market-leading German real estate portal ImmoScout24. Hire: In this case it's a promotion for a 10-year Scout24 employee Dr. Gesa Crockford who is...
Personalisation is a big trend among real estate portals around the world at the moment - especially personalisation done through AI. While the value proposition for portals has traditionally been:...
By our count, there are currently 26 publicly traded companies out there that operate real estate portals. Behind the scenes, Online Marketplaces has been collecting data from all of them...
End-to-end is all the rage in the world of U.S. PropTech companies these days. Companies are increasingly adding services and marketing themselves to all sides of the real estate value...
Voice search is often touted as the future of search engines and voice searches already make up more than 20% of all searches on Google. Real estate portals and marketplaces...
There is a new generation of end-to-end real estate marketplaces springing up all around the world. Many of them are seeing success in markets where trust, transparency and outdated bureaucracy...
