Sharon Hill | February 24, 2014 | Real Estate
New York City-based rental listing site RentHackr has added several new features to help prospective renters find a new home. Zeb Dropkin, RentHackr founder and...
AIM Group | February 24, 2014 | Real Estate
John Whitney, VP of industry relations for Move, Inc's ListHub for about two years, has taken over as director of business development at Trulia. Whitney will...
Steve Shipside | February 20, 2014 | Real Estate
Seemingly sick of the duopoly of Rightmove and Zoopla estate agents are rushing to sign up to a new property portal in the U.K. More than 500 agents with over...
Sharon Hill | February 19, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
For homeowners that need help with the ugly front yard, the broken toilet, or installation of new flooring, angel-funded startup FriendTrusted enables competitive...
AIM Group | February 19, 2014 | Real Estate
ApartmentGuide, part of the RentPath family, just promoted two of its regional sales director to vice presidents for its sales division. Here's the announcement:...
Andrzej Sowula | February 17, 2014 | Real Estate
The revenue of Morizon Group, owner of Polish real estate search engines Morizon.pl and Nportal.pl, continues to grow rapidly and pulled Morizon Group in the black...
Sam Wakoba | February 17, 2014 | Real Estate
New Kenyan real estate site 2ishi.com targets young users and mobile users for marketshare in a country dominated by multinational and investor-backed real estate...
AIM Group | February 14, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
On the Q4 2013 and year-end earnings call Move, Inc. CEO Steve Berkowitz announced the change from paid to free Move.com and Realtor.com rental listings for...
AIM Group | February 14, 2014 | Real Estate
The bad news for real estate and rental service Trulia is a 2013 net loss of $17.8 million, partly due to increased marketing spend in the fourth quarter. The good...
AIM Group | February 14, 2014 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
For all of 2013, The McClatchy Company realized a year-over-year drop in classified advertising revenue of 6.4 percent, with recruitment advertising in both print...
AIM Group | February 14, 2014 | Real Estate
Kira Wampler, former Lytro VP of product and marketing, has been named Trulia CMO. She'll head the real estate and rental service's new $45 million national...
Sharon Hill | February 13, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Zillow just keeps on jumping out ahead of the competition as well as its own prior quarters and years - in revenue, in traffic, and in the all-important...
Sharon Hill | February 13, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Home-Improvement provider directory Porch.com recently announced a collaboration with Home Innovation Research Labs to help consumers learn about and find green...
AIM Group | February 11, 2014 | Real Estate
RentPath, publisher of Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com, and Rentals.com, just announced the sale of DistribuTech, the subsidiary which distributed its print...
Christo Volschenk | February 10, 2014 | Real Estate
This brief is about a new tool for the real estate vertical which may make a few real estate site operators say "why haven't I thought about that before?"...
AIM Group | February 10, 2014 | Real Estate
Bob Mylod, former Priceline CFO and vice chair, and Selina Tobaccowala, president and CTO at SurveyMonkey, have joined the eight-member board of directors of...
Sam Wakoba | February 10, 2014 | Real Estate
Multinational entertainment and digital company Naspers launched its Property24 real estate search site in Zimbabwe just days after it partnered with Philippines’...
AIM Group | February 10, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Houzz recently announced Site Designer, which gives any service provider with a profile on Houzz the opportunity to build a business website at no charge. The site...
Steve Shipside | February 06, 2014 | Real Estate
Back in 2011 Acheter-Louer announced a new strategy of favouring internet development over its traditional background in printed property classifieds. It's a move...
AIM Group | February 05, 2014 | Real Estate
The Q4 2013 earnings report of IAC, parent of HomeAdvisor, indicated that HomeAdvisor U.S. consumer requests for providers dropped 6 percent since Q4 2012, while...
Christo Volschenk | February 04, 2014 | Real Estate
It was reported over the weekend that Germany’s Axel Springer and Markt Gruppe were locked in negotiation for the sale of real estate site Immowelt to Axel...
Sharon Hill | February 03, 2014 | Real Estate
After Craigslist initiated HTML tag blocks in late October, 2013, Keller Williams associate broker Paul Surles devised a way to use the listing giant to market...
Christo Volschenk | February 03, 2014 | Real Estate
Sanoma Digital Romania, a subsidiary of Sanoma Romania and (in turn) Helsinki-listed Sanoma Group, sold its Romanian real estate site MagazinuldeCase.ro to a...
AIM Group | February 01, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Former Adobe and Hewlett Packard VP Paul Weiskopf has been named SVP of corporate development at online real estate marketplace Auction.com. Here's the...
Sam Wakoba | January 30, 2014 | Real Estate
Real estate site PrivateProperty.co.za, steered its business in a new direction with the help of Microsoft Windows Azure, an open and flexible cloud platform, the...
Sharon Hill | January 30, 2014 | Real Estate
Jay Thompson Anatomy of a Rental Scam, the story of Jay Thompson's conversation with a Craigslist rental advertiser who was up to no good, is notable for...
Talal Abu Issa | January 29, 2014 | Real Estate
Real estate site NoCorner.com launched as a new platform for professional and private-party real estate sellers and buyers in Egypt. On the site, sellers can place...
AIM Group | January 29, 2014 | Real Estate
Who owns the listings on classified platforms? Africa is in the middle of its first emotional debate about this topic in the real estate markets of Kenya and...
Sharon Hill | January 29, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Contact At Once, live chat provider for more than 13,000 auto dealers, has significantly expanded its move into the real estate industry, with the signing of...
Sharon Hill | January 29, 2014 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Postlets, the snazzy Zillow-owned tool that allows real estate and rental advertisers to easily create, post, and manage listings to multiple sites, is now...
