In the past, I've been critical of real estate portals and their slow adoption of new features. As my old boss would say though, don't talk about a problem unless...

Looking back at the talking points from Property Portal Watch 2010 it seems that classifieds aggregators caused a stir in the real estate portal industry when they first sprang up....

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...

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...

In October 2023, CoStar Group CEO Andy Florance took to the stage to say he wanted to put a bigger percentage of CoStar's investment in Europe. A "$9 billion war...

Vendor-paid markets are great for real estate portals. For more than a decade the leading Swedish player Hemnet has charged home sellers a fee to list on its portal and...

Singapore is well known for its obsession with property and the market dynamics there are pretty unique...   There can't be many markets in the world in which there are...

Zillow stopped. Casavo stopped. But in Spain, one iBuyer isn't slowing down. Indeed, it's speeding up. Turkey-based iBuyer and brokerage Tiko was founded in 2017 and has raised in excess...

"What would you do with one million interns?" The award for the best question at the PropTech and Portal Watch conference in Bangkok went to Nils Körber who posed a...

Well-funded challenger portals have been generating a lot of headlines in the industry recently. CoStar has been explicit about its mission to become a market leader in both the US...

As CEO of REA India, Dhruv Agarwala heads up one of the most ambitious projects in global real estate: becoming the outright number one player in the most populous market...

Building a market-leading billion-dollar business is seldom straightforward. Few understand the journey better than Michael Lahyani, the founder of Property Finder, a leading real estate classifieds platform in the Middle...