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 Many of them are seeing success in markets where trust, transparency and outdated bureaucracy...

When we analyse our output at the end of the year, there is one category of news that comes out above all the others in terms of page views and...

At OnlineMarketplaces we get sent a lot of press releases around new portal products and, if we're being honest, sometimes they just aren't that interesting or innovative. It tends to...

As property hunters all over the world get more demanding about how their next homes are presented to them, the need for integrated 'listing-tech' services grows. Agents and portals no...

The biggest challenge facing the readers of OnlineMarketplaces today is building sustainable, next-generation digital businesses in real estate. Here, I will share eight key lessons I have learned after my...

The Southeast Asian property industry is a sector that is seeing increases in media attention, VC money and affluence among potential homeowners. There are still a lot of problems inherent...

It has become a cliché at this point, but the fact that ‘real estate transactions are the biggest financial decisions of most people’s lives’ still holds true. It’s also true...

We first came across New Zealand based PropTech firm Renti when we read that the market-leading real estate market Trade Me was partnering with them to streamline renting for Kiwis...

Like most markets right now, the Australian real estate market is super competitive. There are big bidding battles with all kinds of stipulations attached to each bid and all sorts...

We recently spent a lot of time looking at every single property portal website in the world (there are over 650 of them) for an Online Marketplaces study into which...

It seems that there are three common problems affecting property portal businesses at the moment. The percentage of portal visitors indulging in a spot of window shopping is increasing, the...