Third Door Ventures (TDV), which operates Apartments.com.au (formerly Urban.com.au), has acquired the retirement property marketplace villages.com.au to its portfolio of online property search tools. The purchase puts TDV in all...

Facebook’s billionaire co-founder Eduardo Saverin has joined the investor table at Soho.ai as the AI-first marketplace merges with a virtual tour company for commercial properties. Saverin's investment firm B Capital...

REA Group, the owner of realestate.com.au, has reported its first quarter without its Indian business. Revenue rose 11% to A$450m, even though, the company says, national Buy listings fell 2%...

REA Group veteran Tracey Fellows will depart the company after 12 years. Elite Agent reported that she will leave in November. Fellows joined REA in 2014 and served as CEO...

Domain has reported a significant jump in exclusive audience in September 2026, according to a story published by Elite Agent. Domain’s exclusive audience grew 11.5% month-on-month to 1.5 million in...

REA Group has announced a minority investment in VALAI, an AI-powered energy intelligence platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. VALAI’s platform combines property data with AI-driven energy modelling to...

The Australian Financial Review has reported that the Sydney-based hedge fund Bristlemoon Capital has shorted REA Group amid an ongoing housing market slump. Short selling is a trading strategy in...

We start this week's roundup with a relaunch of an Australian portal...   Oceania: Airtasker founder relaunches SohoAI as Australia's first AI-native property portal Soho has launched as Australia's first...

REA Group has agreed to acquire a 35% interest in Distilled, the owner of Ireland’s and Northern Ireland's number-one property portals Daft.ie and PropertyPal. The deal is expected to close...

We have a busy Product Roundup for you this week, and we'll start with some interesting launches in Europe...   Europe: Scout24 launches rental deposit guarantee partnership with SV SparkassenVersicherung...

We have a People Roundup for you this week, starting in the United States...   North America: CoStar Group appoints new President for Homes.com Felix Kusch has been named President...

REA Group will remove certain restrictions from real estate agents' contracts after reaching an agreement with Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC opened an investigation into REA Group...