In an exclusive interview with Online Marketplaces, Jason Tebb admitted that OnTheMarket's mission was not to go after Rightmove... Since being appointed as the successor to Ian Springett in late...
I recently published an article that looked at seven PropTech companies transforming the Southeast Asian real estate market. Doing the research for the article, and for its sister article that...
With the majority of publicly owned portals having already released their financial results for the first six months of the year, Online Marketplaces decided to have some fun. From "Biggest...
Despite its population, most Southern Asian property portals are still not profitable. The lack of market development, the localised nature of property search and a reliance on the primary market...
What percentage of home buyers truly want to go through the rigmarole of calling an agent to put an offer in and having the agent call them constantly when rival...
The news that after 16 years with the company, Peter Brooks-Johnson is to step down as the boss of British market leader Rightmove has got the market speculating around the...
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 way that people buy, sell and rent homes is changing fastest in developing markets. Innovative real estate marketplaces are thriving in places where agents aren't as organised or powerful,...
It's safe to say that the team at Flatfy Group had other things to worry about in February this year other than the international expansion of their mobile app. The...
The narrative around Zillow has been pretty negative ever since the U.S. portal giant kicked its expensive house buying habit back in November 2021. The bad PR has come from...
If your investment portfolio includes a lot of real estate portal companies, it has probably been taking a beating recently. Even before this latest bear market, OnlineMarketplaces.com calculated that between...
At Online Marketplaces, we think that real estate portals are really interesting businesses. Here are a few reasons why... They're called innovative and are classified as ‘tech companies’ despite having...
