German real estate portal operator Scout24 is pioneering a new paradigm in the online classifieds industry. The idea of generating revenue not from listings but from property transactions is not...
Germany's market-leading real estate portal operator Scout24 recently outlined its journey, goals and ambitions in a capital markets day for investors. The detailed presentation that accompanied it was a fascinating...
The progress of the world's top real estate portal companies towards the transaction has been a popular topic of conversation at Property Portal Watch events for many years. With Zillow's...
Traditional growth strategies at the world's largest property portals are now largely redundant and senior management should be very concerned, as their businesses could face collapse in the next 5...
After having been denied a merger with the Prosus-owned horizontal player Avito last month, Russian property portal Cian floated on the NYSE last Friday. The float brought $290 million which...
There has been a lot of controversy in the American real estate marketing sector recently over the alleged incursion of portal companies into agent facing software. There is one company...
Yesterday's bombshell announcement that Zillow's is shuttering its iBuying division and laying off 25% of its staff over the next few quarters brings to an end three and a half...
Sweden is not a market we tend to hear a lot about in the real estate marketing industry. It has an entrenched market-leading portal and a well-regulated property market, hardly...
This week I’ve received no fewer than three press releases whose narrative beyond their details is one of property portals and their political influence. The first one came from Malaysia...
Our recent Portal Standards 2021 report looked at the prevalence of what we thought were six common user-friendly features on 650 property portal sites from around the world. What we...
When you think of a website on which you might look for your next home, you probably have something specific in mind. That image may be vastly different depending on...
As industry commentator Mike DelPrete neatly summed up in his recent Emerging Models in Real Estate Report, "the [real estate] industry is moving very slowly, but it's never moved this fast"....
