The PPW Podcast

By Online Marketplaces Group

The Online Marketplaces team delve into the online real estate marketplace industry as well as the broader world of PropTech surrounding it. We bring you news, views and interviews from the industry a... more

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The podcast currently has 110 episodes available.

The PPW Podcast episodes:

June 25, 2024 Under The Radar Real Estate Marketplaces
The Online Marketplaces news team has to look through a lot of different real estate marketplace businesses and we often get naked if we've seen any interesting ones.
Ed and Harvey try to impress Simon Baker with two companies that they think have gone a little under the radar: Tsukuruba in Japan and DomClick in Russia...
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38min
June 18, 2024 Is Time Up for Classifieds Aggregators? with Rubrikk CEO, Adil Osmani
Ed and Simon are joined by Rubrikk Group CEO, Adil Osmani to talk about the future of real estate classified aggregators.
These businesses sit above portals and pass them traffic but they have been in the news for the wrong reasons recently. Is time up for the aggregator-to-portal CPC business model?
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45min
June 11, 2024 AI Staging and the Consumer Experience, with Stefan Gunnarsson, CEO at Proptexx
On this week’s podcast, Harvey Hancock and Simon Baker speak to Stefan Gunnarsson, CEO at PropTexx.From which photos get the most attention, to the importance of flexible pricing—and chewing glass—enjoy!
0:00 Intros and Proptexx in context
3:20 Proptexx’s widget and functionality
7:00 What can Proptexx do and not do?
11:00 Data collection and usage
14:10 Challenges, and minimising lag times
18:20 Building in a high-growth space—what did you do right/wrong?
23:30 Where does user engagement evolve to next?
29:00 AI, Search and co-piloting
34:45 Pricing
40:00 Goodbyes
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42min
June 06, 2024 The Idiot’s Guide to Running a Property Portal
Edmund Keith interviews Simon Baker about running a real estate portal. They discuss the first steps a CEO should take, the importance of defending and extending market leadership, and the focus on pricing and adding new products and services. They also explore the role of operational expenses and the need to free up resources rather than just cutting costs. The conversation touches on the significance of traffic and leads for a portal's success, the challenge of measuring lead quality, and the importance of building relationships with agents. The conversation explores various levers that a real estate portal CEO can pull to drive success. These levers include staying connected to the audience, understanding unit economics and price increases, diversifying revenue streams, and navigating market dynamics. The key takeaway is the importance of clarity in strategy and execution, focusing on the core business, and avoiding distractions.
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47min
June 04, 2024Taking on Incumbents in the Italian Market, with Pietro Pellizzari
Ed and Simon are joined by Pietro Pellizzari, CEO of Wikicasa, to talk about the unique challenges and opportunities in the Italian real estate market.
Discussion points include
The state of the Italian market and the challenges and opportunities.

The state of real estate portal competition.

What makes Wikicasa different from its competitors Idealista and Immobiliare.

The challenges of being an agent-backed portal business.

FSBO listings
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43min
May 29, 2024 Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace, with Dhruv Agarwala
In part two of our interview with Dhruv Agarwala, we discuss a much-needed topic: health and wellbeing.
Dhruv is the ideal interviewee—his personal and professional journey involved losing over 70 kilos in just two years, without any surgery, supplements or coaching; he did it all organically, by himself.
How did he do it? How has it impacted his work? Find out all this, and more, on this episode of the Property Portal Watch Podcast.
0:00 Dhruv's Journey
09:20 Mindfulness and Prioritising Self
30:36 The Key to Successful Acquisitions
40:53 Longevity: A Focus on Quality of Life
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44min
May 21, 2024 Growing to #1 in an Emerging Market, with Dhruv Agarwala
Dhruv Agarwala, CEO at REA India, joins Simon and Harvey for an in-depth conversation about the opportunities and challenges of operating a "not quite" market leader in one of the most hotly contested markets in the world.
From the structure of sales teams to real-time strategizing about the future of the company (and the Indian market as a whole), this is an unmissable episode that acts as a fascinating follow-up to Dhruv's well-received presentation at the Property Portal Watch conference in Bangkok earlier in 2024.
0:00 intros and Quarterly Results
5:50 History of REA India
8:10 PropTiger in context
14:00 Building a sales team
18:30 Focusing energy on specific markets
20:30 Building meaningful synergies between brands in REA India
32:00 "What challenges keep you up at night?"
41:00 Is consolidation the future of the Indian market?
52:15 Goodbyes
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53min
May 17, 2024 “I have an idea for a Startup: What do I do now?”
Simon and Harvey get together to go through the early days of a PropTech startup.
0:00 intros and PropTech Startup Day
3:50 Takeaways from the first PropTech Startup Day
6:15 Who is invited?
7:33 What makes a valid Startup?
11:00 What's makes a valid Entrepreneur?
16:00 The Assumption of Perfection
19:40 Strategic Priorities in the early days
22:00 My first investment
24:15 Valuing my business
26:30 My exit plans
30:00 How to signup for the Startup Day event in Barcelona
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34min
May 15, 2024 Lessons From Australia’s Leading Rentals Portal, with Greg Bader
Greg Bader, CEO at Rent.com.au, Australia's leading rentals platform, joins Simon and Harvey for a wide-ranging conversation including the housing shortage in Australia, building a market-leading product, the challenge of being a small fish in a big pond, and his vision for the future of the company.
00:00 Introduction and Overview of rent.com.au
02:19 Changing Perceptions of Renting in Australia
06:57 Challenges in the Australian Rental Market
14:32 Rent Pay: A Dual-Sided Product for Tenants and Agencies
23:56 Exploring Partnerships and M&A in the Real Estate Market
27:53 The Future of rent.com.au as a Consumer-Focused Business
32:10 AI: Assisting Renters in Becoming Homeowners
38:44 Building Customer Relationships in the Real Estate Market
42:26 Balancing Commercial Growth and Values in a Publicly Listed Company

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45min
May 09, 2024 News Roundup: Financials Season Winners and Losers
Simon and Harvey take a quick dip into the Quarterly Financial results released in the past month, including big names like Square Yards, Hemnet, Opendoor, Zillow, and the Baltics Classifieds Groups.
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22min

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