AI is suddenly everywhere in real estate search. Portals are launching conversational interfaces, press releases are filled with references to “AI-powered discovery”, and executives talk about a future where users...
Microsoft was so impressed that it pushed the project to the top of its R&D pipeline. An unnamed tester said (in quite flowery language) that he would never use Zillow...
Ever since generative AI went mainstream, a familiar anxiety has crept through sections of the real estate industry. If ChatGPT can write essays, code software, and scrape and present real...
Real estate portal stocks have been a pretty safe bet for a long time. Companies like Hemnet, Scout24 and REA Group have a model beloved by investors and the network...
AVIV Group runs some of Europe's most important real estate marketplaces. Along with SeLoger in France and Immoweb in Belgium, the former Axel Springer offshoot also operates immowelt, considered a...
Earlier this month, the last nail appeared to finally be hammered into the coffin of a case brought against Zillow in 2021. For most other companies, the Supreme Court's decision...
Innovation on real estate portals is being held back by their business models. Until now, many in and around the industry suspected that this was the case; now we have...
The time to start a market-leading real estate portal has come and gone. Looking at the foundation years of 652 real estate marketplaces around the world and their corresponding market...
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...
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