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...
Our recent Adjacencies Report looked at the businesses that real estate portal companies have been diversifying into. We studied over 180 products and services from 55 leading portal companies around...
The Canadian real estate marketplace industry is one that we don't hear a lot from. No news about toxic relationships between agents and portals, no massive public companies throwing their...
Online real estate portals have been diversifying their businesses to get closer to the lucrative parts of the transaction for many years. The tactic of moving into revenue streams that...
PropertyGuru is the market-leading Southeast Asian real estate portal group Founded in Singapore in 2007 by ex-pat entrepreneurs Steve Melhuish and Jani Rautiainen. The company is set to go public...
It seems as though all PropTech companies in the United States are in an arms race to be the all-in-one platform for real estate transactions. There are the obvious cases...
