Housing.com

Housing.com is an Indian real estate search portal which allows customers to search for apartments for rent and sale.^[1][2] The company has 6,000 brokers and serves 40 cities in India including Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kochi, Kolkata and Delhi.^[3][4][5]

Housing.com

Type of business	E-commerce, Real Estate, Classifieds
Available in	English
Headquarters	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served	India
Founder(s)	Rahul Yadav
CEO	Dhruv Agarwal
Industry	Real estate
Parent	REA Group
URL	housing.com
Launched	June 2012; 13 years ago (2012-06)
Current status	Active

History

A group of twelve students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay founded Housing.co.in in June 2012.^[1][6][7][8] The company purchased Housing.com from San Francisco-based internet entrepreneur, Peter Headington, and the telephone number 03-333-333-333 in September 2013 for a total of $1m.^[9][10]

Since its founding in 2012, Housing.com has raised four rounds of funding. The company raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners in June 2013.^{[2][3][4][11]} The company used the funds to create its Data Science Lab and to expand to four cities: Bengaluru, Gurugram, Pune, Hyderabad. ^{[3] [12][13]} The company raised another $19M in venture funding, led by Helion Venture Partners, in April 2014.^[14][15]

Housing.com acquired real estate discussion forum, Indian Real Estate Forum (IREF), for $1.2 million in March 2015,^[16] Realty BI, a risk assessment firm for realty projects, for $2 million in June 2015,^[17] and HomeBuy360, a cloud-based sales lifecycle management platform, for $2 million in August 2015.^[18]

In June 2015, Housing.com then-CEO Rahul Yadav accused Sequoia India MD Shailendra Singh of poaching Housing.com staff.^[19] Subsequently, he was asked to leave the company altogether, citing objectionable behaviour.^[20][21] Rishabh Gupta was temporarily in charge, before being replaced by Jason Kothari in November 2015.^[22]

Product

Housing.com lists properties submitted by users, either brokers or owners, on an interactive map.^[6] Search results are filtered by available rooms, lifestyle ratings, child friendliness index (CFI), and area-based pricing.^{[2][3][7][9][23]}

The company has mapped approximately 650,000 houses in India.^[4][12]

Housing.com's Data Science Lab (DSL) has generated a number of "Heat Map" algorithms and demand flux maps based on these filters.^{[5][13][9][5][10]}