Greg Spencer | February 11, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Zillow has announced plans to acquire home touring platform ShowingTime for $500 million. ShowingTime offers technology that coordinates schedules behind the... Greg Spencer | February 10, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Zillow posted a 16% year-on-year revenue drop for Q4 2020, as impressive gains in ad sales and mortgages mixed with reduced turnover in its I-Buying division. The... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | February 05, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
BProperty.com, a Bangladesh-based real estate marketplace, has teamed up with IPDC Finance to offer price valuation and legal validation for mortgaged properties.... Greg Spencer | February 04, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
After a year of drastically declined revenue, leading U.S. I-Buyer Opendoor hopes to raise $700 million to double its metro markets this year. In an SEC filing... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | February 03, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
Ga Technologies, a tech-intensive real estate business in Japan, has launched a new loan service to finance apartment renovation costs. The service is operated by... Greg Spencer | February 02, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
CoStar has reportedly made $6.7 billion all-stock offer to acquire real estate data firm CoreLogic. The bid was bigger than an all-cash offer made earlier by a... Jacopo Natali | January 28, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
99 Group, an operator of property portals in Southeast Asia, saw sales, users and traffic all grow by double digits last year. Sales increased by 66% while net... Greg Spencer | January 26, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
CoStar may be expanding into the residential real estate market, but the company isn't trying to pick a fight with Zillow, according to CEO Andrew Florance. Andrew... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 25, 2021 | Horizontals, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
The marketplace scene in Japan is abuzz with developments this month. Several companies, including Yahoo and Mercari, have launched a series of new innovations.... Greg Spencer | January 25, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
Homes listings site Realtor.com has tied up with closing-services vendor Qualia to give agents and their customers a contactless way to complete home transactions.... Greg Spencer | January 13, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Luxury real estate brokerage Compass has filed for an IPO, the company announced earlier this week. Robert Reffkin The company did not disclose how many shares it... Isaac Simon | January 11, 2021 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Before 2020 ended, Spain-based real estate marketplace Idealista took another step in its digital transformation efforts by acquiring Rentger, a cloud-based SaaS... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | December 30, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Dongnae.com, a South Korean real estate startup, has raised $4.1 million U.S. in a seed funding round led by U.S.-based venture capital firms FlyBridge and... Greg Spencer | December 30, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Rental listings company RentPath, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, has withdrawn from a planned buyout by CoStar. The decision came just weeks after... Jacopo Natali | December 28, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
FazWaz, the Thailand-based property site, recently completed a new funding round. The undisclosed sum will be used to finance its growth in 2021. The funding comes... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | December 22, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Ga Technologies, a tech-intensive real estate business in Japan, beat the financial forecasts by wide margins during the past fiscal year despite Covid-19... AIM Group | December 21, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Flemish rental marketplace Rentio has raised €2 million ($2.5 million U.S.) in growth funding to improve its digital ecosystem. Rentio, which was founded earlier... Lucy Barnard | December 17, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
UAE-based property portal Bayut has partnered with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) to launch a mortgage pre-approval tool. The new tool, called ADCB Dream Home... Ben Salisbury | December 16, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
British real estate portal PurpleBricks made a profit in the six months to October 2020, despite a 6% fall in revenue from £47.1 million to £44.2 million ($59... Jacopo Natali | December 15, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
Juwai IQI has teamed up with Dose Consulting to open a real estate investment wing in Turkey. The launch of IQI Turkey caps a year of rapid growth in the number of... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | December 15, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
BProperty.com, a Bangladesh-based real estate marketplace, has rolled out digital rent management services that lets tenants and landlords pay, collect and manage... Cila Warncke | December 08, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
Idealista, the leading real estate vertical in Spain, has launched a free digital rental contract generator. The new tool allows agents, owners and renters to... Jacopo Natali | November 30, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Philippines-based prop-tech marketplace Aqwire recently raised $2.1 million U.S. in a Series A equity financing round led by the Singaporean venture capital firm... Jacopo Natali | November 30, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
PropertyGuru plans to acquire Malaysia-based property data company MyProperty Data through a share purchase agreement with TechnoDex and Real Estate Solutions. The... Jacopo Natali | November 25, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Philippines-based proptech portal Hoppler has signed an agreement to acquire ZipMatch, a major competitor, in exchange for 10% of Hoppler’s issued capital and a... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | November 19, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, People
Thailand-based real estate marketplace FazWaz has appointed James Whitehead as CEO of FazWaz-kh.com, its new Cambodian property marketplace. Whitehead (LinkedIn... Davide Rasconi | November 16, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
Idealista recently launched a virtual visualization tool called Videovisita. The company follows in the footsteps of many other real estate sites, which have been... Cila Warncke | November 13, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
Mouro Capital, an investment arm of Spanish bank Santander, has invested in Clikalia, a property portal focused on IBuying. Neither party announced the amount of... Ben Salisbury | November 13, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying
A new residential home buying service, Spring, launched in the U.K. this week, with an annual budget of £300 million ($395 million U.S.). Spring buys the property... Jacopo Natali | November 11, 2020 | Real Estate, PropTech / IBuying, Financials / Deals
REA Group plans to acquire Singapore Real Estate Exchange (SRX), a major move in the group's expansion into Asia. SRX is a property marketplace and real estate... 
