When you think of the ideal place to find a new home, you probably conjure up a mental image of a specific website or app. It will have familiar branding,...

Rightmove is not only the market-leading property portal in the UK, it's also the example that just about everybody in the global portal industry uses to describe what market leadership...

In the second of our two-part interview series with Hemnet CPO Francesca Cortesi, we zoom out to look at the shape of the European real estate industry, the role of...

Hemnet is the indisputable number one real estate portal in Sweden. The portal claims to generate 19 times more visits to its property listings than its nearest competitor and says...

"Wow. Agents really missed the boat, didn't they?" That was my reaction when I first plotted the graphs for our report on real estate portal ownership earlier this year. Of...

Dubizzle Group CEO Imran Ali Khan is one of a small handful of founders wandering the corridors of Property Portal Watch Madrid who have built a market-leading portal business from...

What does Netflix-style realtor branding look like? Real Estate Works (REW), a property portal operating in the west of Canada, has put that idea to the test with the most...

You'd be forgiven for not having heard of Propertizer, the proptech with a profitability calculator for every property in the world. But this bootstrapped startup based out of Hungary—operating with...

Real estate portal companies tend to be quite conservative. They rarely rock the boat with controversial statements and you don't tend to see many counter-narrative opinions about how they should...

There was a time not long ago when the real estate industry narrative was that portals were coming for agents. They were going to get into the transaction, disintermediate agents...

Re-watching ProperBird's presentation from Property Portal Watch Bangkok got me thinking... What are the rules around real estate listings data? Real estate portals no doubt have some complaints about services...

The subscription model for real estate portal businesses is flawed. At least that's according to European Internet Ventures founder Malcolm Myers who told attendees of Property Portal Watch Madrid that...