People looking for a new place to live usually don't send a lead as they're searching; they do so after weighing up the pros and cons of listings they've been...

The pace at which topics flutter into the industry's collective gaze, become the focus and then dance out again has never been faster. This discourse turnover, though, is still slightly...

We processed 217,000 listing images across 23 portals in 17 countries. AI adoption at the listing image layer is further ahead than most observers assumed. The infrastructure to help buyers...

“The gap in technical advancement in our industry is still a big challenge that AI is exposing faster”, says Hannah Parker, founder at Inoki Agency. "When I have conversations about...

We recently took the time to convert all our historical news output into structured data and link it to the companies we write about. The project has thrown up some...

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...