London-based, private equity firm Cinven has reportedly signed an exclusivity agreement to acquire Idealista for an estimated €3 billion. The news was reported by local media outlet Expansión last week...
Here's this week's roundup of the new products and services being built by real estate marketplaces around the world... Casavo relaunches Homeplus solution with new partnerships The Italian, former-iBuyer,...
Realoq, a recently founded US real estate portal designed as a “multi-sided marketplace,” has extended its services to Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. "Unlike industry stalwarts, Realoq’s free-to-use service offers...
Evoriel Group, a significant player in France's real estate services industry, has taken an undisclosed stake in the French portal Bien'ici. The investment brings co-ownership trustee, rental management and insurance...
The German real estate portal operator Scout24 held its Annual General Meeting this week. Resolutions passed by the company's board included: A dividend of €1.20 per share. Andrea Euenheim was...
Jinka, a real estate listings aggregation platform and app in France, has been fined by a local court for illegally extracting listings from the horizontal classifieds marektplace Leboncoin without prior...
As Editor of Online Marketplaces, I've spent the last four years studying real estate portals. I've interviewed dozens of portal bosses, collected more than 180,000 data points and published almost...
Madrid-based rentals startup Spotahome says it managed €217 million in transactions in 2024, and guaranteed more than €40 million of rent from tenants in 185 countries in the past 15...
This week's product roundup includes two big announcements from realestate.com.au, commercial analytics from PropertyGuru, a customer-friendly service for Redfin customers, and an unexpected partnership in Turkey... REA Group adds...
A potential stick may have been thrown in the spokes of CoStar's deal for Matterport as a Delaware judge ruled this week that former Matterport CEO Bill Brown is entitled...
Relatively few true startup challenger portals are launched in mature markets these days. The challenge for them in taking on incumbents is immense. One real estate marketplace looking to defy...
The British off-market property portal Invisible Homes has extended its angel investment round after surpassing its initial funding target of £600,000. The portal was founded in 2018 by former London...
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