The PPW Podcast

Ed, Harvey and Simon break down the week's biggest stories from the world of real estate portals: a Baltic classifieds giant borrowing to buy back its own shares, the escalating legal fight between REA Group and Domain over their marketing claims, and OMYHOME's unusual delisting back to its own founders for a single dollar. Plus, is the market overestimating AI's short-term threat to p...

Ed, Harvey and Simon get together for an overdue rundown of the latest news in portals and proptech.0:00 Intros0:39 CoStar board member renewals and activist investors.15:00 CoStar Investment in Wikicasa18:27 Square Yards Fundraise27:10 Zillow + Google Gemini, and the Consideration Phase

Shawn Mullahy, newly appointed CEO at Zumper, joins Harvey for a conversation about taking over from Founder, Anthemos Georgiades, and moving towards a new business and revenue model that fills houses faster. 00:00 Intros and Zumper changes 04:35 Zumper's strategic shift under new leadership 10:08 AI Integration and Future Business Model 17:02 Challenges in Lead Attribution and Customer Engage...

Toby Chapman from OC&C Strategy returns to the PPW Pod for a follow-up on last year's debate around AI and real estate marketplaces. A year on from his "AI truck" prediction, Ed, Simon and Toby unpack why share prices are down 30-50%, whether portals are undervalued or were overvalued, and where the real existential risks actually lie. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:03 Has the AI truck...

In this week's news roundup, Ed, Simon Baker and Harvey Hancock unpack CoStar's $800M all-cash swoop for new-homes data specialist Zonda, and share their first-hand impressions of Realtor.com's new Google-powered RealAssist AI search tool. Chapters:00:00 Intro00:52 CoStar Buys Zonda for ~$800M09:40 Realtor.com's New RealAssist AI (with Google)18:59 Can AI-Native Challengers Beat th...

In this week's news roundup, Edmund Keith, Simon Baker, and Harvey Hancock dig into Scout24's bet on becoming the first AI-native real estate marketplace, the escalating Zillow vs. MLS listings war, and Google quietly putting for-sale listings back at the top of search. Chapters:00:00 Intro01:48 Scout24's Agentic Future & Capital Markets Day17:13 Zillow vs. MRED — The Chicago Listi...

In this episode of The PPW Podcast, Edmund Keith and Harvey Hancock are joined by Christian Printzell Halvorsen, CEO of Vend — the leading operator of marketplaces in the Nordics across real estate, mobility, jobs and re-commerce (Finn, Oikotie, Qasa and more). We discuss the sector-wide share price drop, the CEO's role as a salesperson for the company story, Vend's brand new autonomous AI native...

In this week's news roundup, the team unpacks Zillow's antitrust lawsuit against Compass and MRED, plus Q3 financial results from REA Group, Realtor.com and Rightmove. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:17 Zillow Sues Compass & MRED 22:13 REA Group Q3 2026 Results 30:28 Realtor.com Q1 Renaissance 41:04 Rightmove Market Update Zillow Sues Compass & MRED Zillow has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Compass a...

In this week's news roundup, Edmund Keith and Simon Baker break down four of the biggest stories from the world of real estate portals. Zillow & Realtor.com Pre-Market Partnership Zillow and Realtor.com — long-time competitors — have announced a deal to share pre-market "preview" listings, forming a rival to the Compass-Redfin pre-market network. Unlike the Compass-Redfin arrangement (which is...

Ed, Simon and Harvey discuss this week's news from the world of real estate portals. Costar Group moves past the investor dispute as it posts a 60th consecutive quarter of double digit revenue growth, Hemnet's results are impacted by its new business model, Scout24 incorporates Fotocasa into its reporting, 'pre-market' buzz arrives in the UK and Apartments.com.au has a new admirer.

Qingyang Chang is the founder at ConcreteAI, and the new holder of the title of Pitch Club winner for the PPW Bangkok conference. Qingyang joins Harvey for a wide-ranging interview covering the science and business behind ConcreteAI, cultural hurdles, expansion plans, educating the market...and a whole lot of concrete. 00:00 Introduction to ConcreteAI and Conference Insights 01:32 Understanding Co...

Ed, Harvey and Simon discuss the news from the world of real estate portals this week. Rightmove makes moves in commercial, a French aggregator loses its second court case, clickbait shows off Zillow's brand power and Immobiliare.it turns to Adevinta's Subito for a traffic boost.

Stuart Shapley and Fouad Bekkar join Harvey and Simon for a conversation about the health of portals around the world using Coraly's new Global Portal Portal Index, which ranks portals across several key metrics including discoverability, listing quality, market experience, and innovation. 00:00 - Intros 02:10 - Coraly’s AI capabilities for real estate portals 05:44 - The GPPI's four core...

Ed, Harvey and Simon discuss the most interesting points from this week's news coverage on OnlineMarketplaces.com, including... * Casavo has announced it's third pivot and a return to iBuying * Domain has made Matterport tours free on its standard package * View.com.au is to be shut down after 25 years in the game * Zillow says it was coming up with its pre-market strategy two years ago

Simon Leadbetter is a marketing Strategist who teaches estate agents in the UK how do a better job with their marketing. He's also the person behind the influential 'The Voice of The Agent' reports, which show a clear picture of how UK agents think about their marketing... and about portals. Ed spoke to Simon about...- The report's latest findings (29% of agents spend their marketi...

Harvey and Simon get together for the weekly news roundup, featuring Zillow, REA Group and Fotocasa. There's also some AI search, data talk, and a conversation about Buyer Agents. 00:00 - Intros 04:20 - Share prices 09:14 - Zillow's strategy with listings bans and off-market products 14:16 - New ChatGPT integration for Fotocasa 27:22 - REA Group’s acquisition of Neighbourlytics and data in...

Martin Waeber, Head of Real Estate at SMG, joins Harvey and Simon, including an update on financials since it IPO'd last year, and the Group's thoughts on AI and Data being rolled into Product. 00:00 Intros 03:18 SMG basics 09:08 Business Model 15:18 Lead Attribution and AI Integration 18:10 The Future of AI in Real Estate 21:03 Data as a Competitive Advantage 24:11 Sustainability and Data...

Harvey, Edmund and Simon get together for a breakdown of the industry's latest news, from lawsuits in the UK to multi-market challenges for CoStar Group... 00:00 Introduction and Overview of the Real Estate Market 01:41 Rightmove's Legal Troubles in the UK 14:33 Zillow vs. CoStar Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Update 25:18 Hemnet rolls out 'Sell Now, Pay Later' offer Nationwide 31:...

Ed and Harvey discuss the latest news from the world of property marketplaces, including... - Zillow's move to get with the program and offer pre-market listings - Domain's price freeze and possible layoffs - SMG's first set of results as a public company - AI products are becoming table stakes Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Conference Highlights 03:28 Zillow's Pre-Market Listings...

Ed, Simon and Harvey discuss what's been said on stage at the PPW Bangkok Conference 2026 including 'wicked AI' and 'babies being thrown out with the bathwater'. Apologies for the lack of video. The edit on this one was a nightmare.

Ed is joined by Daft.ie's CCO, Adam Ferguson to talk about the challenges in the Irish housing market, the introduction of vendor paid advertising, the rollout and adoption challenges, the relationship with agents, subscription costs, competitor reaction, international adoption, AI search, bidding system, market conditions, and the impact on affordability and market dynamics. Chapters00:00 Int...

Ed, Harvey and Simon discuss the latest news from around the world of real estate marketplaces. This week's topics... - CoStar's ongoing feud with activist investors gets even spicier - Portals are increasingly turning to AI for search - Purplebricks founders are set to return - The competition authorities in Czechia have clamped down on sweetheart deals Chapters 00:00 Jet Lag and Commitme...

Mathew Heywood is the CEO of NeuralIndex, a specialist that helps portals turn listing photos (and other inputs) into queryable, semantically enriched data. We spoke to Mathew because NeuralIndex sponsored The State of AI-Powered Real Estate Search and because his central claim maps neatly onto what the benchmark shows: most portals can only “converse” over thin listing data unless they enrich it...

Ed, Simon and Harvey discuss CoStar Group's Q4 and end of year financials, Zillow's lawsuit, an acquisition by Zoopla, Native AI Portals, and sea change in Sweden. 00:00 Intros 01:00 CoStar Group financials and investor call highlights 17:00 Homes AI 21:00 Zillow litigation update 25:00 Zoopla acquisition 30:00 AI-Native portals 36:00 Sweden

Edoardo Ribichesu, CEO at Homepay, joins Harvey and Simon for a conversation around why he is building the next generation of financial infrastructure for real estate transactions in Europe (and potentially beyond). 00:00 Introduction to HomePay and the Real Estate Sector 02:47 Understanding HomePay's Financial Infrastructure 06:05 The Process of Real Estate Transactions in Southern Europe 11:...