Cian, Russia's largest real estate vertical, has been referred to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) by Moscow's Guild of Realtors after the portal imposed more price hikes on agents. The...

This week's People Roundup starts with the unexpected departure of a recent podcast guest...   North America: Zumper CEO transitions to Chairman Zumper's founder and CEO, Anthemos Georgiades, has stepped...

There are more ChatGPT integrations in this week's Product and Services Roundup...   Europe: Hepsiemlak introduces first ChatGPT home search in Turkey The Turkish real estate portal Hepsiemlak is the...

CoStar Group’s increasingly public fight with activist investors has entered a new phase, this time centred on how the company reports the performance of Homes.com. In a new open letter...

Fotocasa is expanding its agent toolkit with two new products. The Barcelona-based portal has launched its Gestor de Oportunidades within Fotocasa Pro, and Datavenues, a data intelligence product designed to...

Anthemos Georgiades, founder and CEO of the American rental marketplace Zumper, will step back from the role, with incumbent CRO Shawn Mullahy replacing him as CEO. Georgiades will become Chairman...

Purplebricks’ founders, Michael and Kenny Bruce, are reportedly heading back to the low-fee agency they built, broke, and now appear ready to rebuild. Sky News has reported that the brothers...

Seznam.cz, the operator of Czech market-leading property portal Sreality.cz, has avoided formal sanctions after agreeing to overhaul parts of its pricing model following an antitrust probe by the country’s competition...

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...

There's an additional smattering of AI-focused launches in this week's Product and Services Roundup. We'll start in Germany...   Europe: Kleinanziegen adds ChatGPT search Germany's generalised classifieds marketplace Kleinanzeigen has...

This week's roundup begins with a major coup for Scout24 as it enters the Spanish market...   Europe: Scout24 acquires Fotocasa Group from EQT after Adevinta divestment Fotocasa Group, consisting...

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...