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Makaan.com
Type of businessReal estate
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersGurgaon, India
Founder(s)Anupam Mittal, Aditya Verma
CEODhruv Agarwala
IndustryReal Estate
URLwww.makaan.com
Launched2007; 17 years ago (2007)

Makaan.com is an online real estate portal in India, launched in 2007. It has a rating system for brokers.[1]

History

Makaan.com was a part of the Anupam Mittal-promoted People Group. The group owned Shaadi.com and Mauj.[2]

Promoters

In April 2015, PropTiger.com, an independent online real estate advisor, took over Makaan.com.[3] Makaan.com is now a part of Elara Technologies Private Ltd., Singapore, which is also the company that owns PropTiger.com. Elara Technologies PVT Limited is a digital real estate marketing and transaction service provider. SAIF Partners, Accel Partners, and Horizons Ventures are some of the major investors in Elara. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a global media, book publishing, and digital real estate services company, took a 25% stake in Elara in November 2014.[4]

References

  1. ^ Real estate portals looking at rating brokers for more customer satisfaction
  2. ^ Charsley, Katharine (2013). Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home'. Routledge.
  3. ^ Proptiger.com acquires makaan.com to create common platform.
  4. ^ "News Corp acquires 25% stake in PropTiger.com for $30 million". The Economic Times. 25 November 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2020.