Online Marketplaces covered 88 property portal product updates in 2022, a slight decrease on 2021's 118. But which products and services launched in 2022 were the most interesting and important?...

UK #2 portal Zoopla has reported that new listings on its site rose 42% YoY thanks to a "Boxing Day boost". Agents uploaded 11,613 new listings the day after Christmas,...

New York City-based rental platform Rove has secured a $4m seed funding round to expand its "part-Airbnb, part-luxury hotel" business. The funding round was led by a wide-ranging set of...

Niecon, one of the oldest real estate developers in Australia, will tokenise multiple luxury villas worth an approximate A$3m in January 2023. The properties will be fractionalised, tokenised, and sold...

The last 12 months have seen a big slowdown in real estate markets around the world. Compared to some of the monumental deals that saw billions of dollars change hands...

The PropertyGuru Group has completed the acquisition of iProperty Malaysia as the south-east Asia property technology company targets further expansion. It now owns all the shares in REA Group Ltd’s...

Casavo has revealed that it received a €10m cash injection from Unicredit this year as the pan-European Commercial Bank entered a long-term strategic partnership with the Italian iBuyer. Casavo raised...

For the first time in Online Marketplaces history, a news story opens by referencing Pokémon GO. The smash hit, launched in 2016, tapped into game-changing augmented reality tech developed by...

Chinese real estate portal operator Fang Holdings Limited has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement relating to a $92 million deal which would see China Index Holdings Limited...

The online classifieds operator Carousell Group has shuttered its Myanmar-based horizontal classifieds platform OneKyat with all employees to be made redundant. The news was confirmed by founder and COO Thiha...

Leading Hungarian real estate portal Ingatlan has announced an investment in Hitelnet, one of the country's leading mortgage brokerage companies. Although Ingatlan confirmed that the deal did not involve any...

The European Commission has informed Meta (owner of Facebook) that the company is breaching European Union antitrust rules by distorting competition for online classified ads. The Commission has sent a...