In 2019, activist investor Elliott Management wrote a letter to eBay's board in which it referred to the company's classifieds division as "an odd collection of unrelated assets". The letter...

CoStar Group founder Andy Florance is one of the very few real estate marketplace leaders whose quarterly calls with investors are worth listening to. As a man who's been in...

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...