Over the past decade, I’ve operated property portals across five African markets—Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Mauritius. I've launched a startup in Maputo worked for a pan-African corporate like Ringier,...
There is no standard definition for what constitutes a pre-market property. Listings advertised as off-market are regularly actually in the pre-market stage—a soft launch period where agents show properties to...
Only around 40% of listings on Zillow are affordable. Or, to put it another way, only around 40% of properties on the world's most popular real estate website are relevant...
The new existential threat to real estate portals now has a name. Up until the last few weeks, there had been plenty of talk about AI disrupting real estate search...
Remember plain blue text links? Real estate portal homepages used to be full of them. They led to useful things like removal services, guides on how to sell your home...
After an intense week of conferencing at the Proptech and Portal Watch event in Barcelona in October, the team at Online Marketplaces has taken some time to debrief on the...
In the past, I've been critical of real estate portals and their slow adoption of new features. As my old boss would say though, don't talk about a problem unless...
Looking back at the talking points from Property Portal Watch 2010 it seems that classifieds aggregators caused a stir in the real estate portal industry when they first sprang up....
It might be growing fast (and shouting about it) but CoStar-owned US challenger real estate portal Homes.com is still a very long way off Zillow in terms of traffic. [wpdatachart...
As Editor of Online Marketplaces, I've spent the last four years studying real estate portals. I've interviewed dozens of portal bosses, collected more than 180,000 data points and published almost...
In October 2023, CoStar Group CEO Andy Florance took to the stage to say he wanted to put a bigger percentage of CoStar's investment in Europe. A "$9 billion war...
Vendor-paid markets are great for real estate portals. For more than a decade the leading Swedish player Hemnet has charged home sellers a fee to list on its portal and...
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