The Dutch real estate portal Jaap quietly shut down earlier this year after seeing its profits evaporate in the face of overbearing competition. The news was first covered by local...
It might be growing fast (and shouting about it) but CoStar-owned US challenger real estate portal Homes.com is still a very long way off Zillow in terms of traffic. [wpdatachart...
The Norwegian media and marketplace operator Schibsted has had a busy month, with transactions worth approximately NOK 50 billion ($4.7 billion) all closing in the past five weeks. Last week,...
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...
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