Realtor.com CEO Damien Eales says the United States needs four million more homes amid a housing crisis. "America is short 4 million homes [and] active inventory remains roughly 12% below...

The Hungarian aggregator Reálmonitor has won a lawsuit against the country's leading real estate vertical, Ingatlan.com. A court ruling concluded that aggregators, including Árminimum.hu and the mobile application Ingatlanhiredes Figyelő—both...

Zillow has challenged a recent study that alleged its Zillow Home Loans (ZHL) products are overpriced and discriminatory, defending itself against flawed methodology and a misleading dataset. Professor Steven Salop...

A new study alleges that Zillow's Home Loans (ZHL) products are more expensive than the industry norm, with consumers paying between 10-15% more for a Zillow Home Loans mortgage than...

This week's people roundup features C-suite appointments in Europe and Asia. We'll start in Germany...   Europe: Immowelt appoints new CMO Immowelt, the German real estate marketplace owned by Aviv...

There's only one product update we can start with this week...   North America: Google tests real estate listings Google tested a small number of real estate listings over the...

The Versailles Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Digital Classifieds France, the operator behind SeLoger, Logic-Immo and Belles Demeures, in a long-running dispute with Jinka over the unauthorised...

On the PPW Podcast, we talk a lot about the future of real estate search and more than once, we've mentioned a future in which house hunters will have an...

Google put several for-sale listings directly into its search results on mobile devices over the weekend, after testing a new paid-for partnership with the AI-powered real estate brokerage HouseCanary. Google...

This week's Product and Services roundup starts in the United States, where Realtor.com has signed an interesting syndication deal...   North America: Realtor.com enters syndication agreement with Movoto for newbuild properties...

The Swedish housing portal Boneo has closed a SEK 10 million (USD 1.06 million) media for equity deal wth Aggregate Media. The money will go towards a major marketing and...

I interviewed Fouad Bekkar, CEO at Coraly (formerly Coralyics), at the Proptech and Portal Watch conference in October with the intention of discussing all manner of industry topics. But as...