The pre-market listings environment in the United States has undergone significant change this week, with two major announcements from leading portals granting higher access to pre- and off-market listings. Realtor.com...

Compass dropped its lawsuit against Zillow—alleging abuse of monopoly—this week after Zillow dropped its controversial 'Zillow ban'. The brokerage brought the lawsuit in June 2025, accusing Zillow of leveraging its...

Swiss Marketplace Group posted a strong FY25, its first full-year result after last year’s IPO, with double-digit revenue growth and a sharp increase in profitability across its marketplaces. Group revenue...

Zillow has flexed its muscles by introducing a pre-market offering for agents looking to create large-scale public demand for properties not currently listed on the MLS. The property market in...

AI-powered real estate search is a very big topic in the industry at the moment. Although there is a lot of discussion around it, it's still pretty rare on real...

ImmoScout24, Germany's leading real estate marketplace, has launched a pre-marketing offering "to make previously invisible offers more visible and to make access to housing more transparent" for buyers and renters. Under...

Swedish market-leader Hemnet has published its first monthly trading update for 2026, and the numbers make for grim reading. February net sales fell 22% year-on-year to SEK 87.9 million, while...

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...