The PPW Podcast
by Online Marketplaces Group
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News Roundup 6/11: Big Four Portal Results, PPW Madrid Debates &…
News Roundup 6/11: Big Four Portal Results, PPW Madrid Debates &…
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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 as well as our own team's analysis of current events and trends.
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- News Roundup 6/11: Big Four Portal Results, PPW Madrid Debates & Zillow's $212.5m Settlement · 46 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, four of the biggest real estate portal operators report, and the story is the same everywhere: growth is coming from charging more, not from traffic…
- Live From PPW Madrid 2026: AI Results, Business Models & Best Talks · 18 min · Season 3Recorded live on stage at Property Portal Watch Madrid 2026, Edmund Keith, Harvey Hancock and Simon Baker take stock of two and a half days of talks in front of more than 460…
- News Roundup 23/10/26: Hemnet Q3, Compass Sues CRMLS & Zillow Comes to Claude · 48 min · Season 3In our last news roundup before PPW Madrid, Hemnet's shares jump despite falling numbers, Compass sues California's biggest MLS, Zillow launches inside Claude, HouseCanary adds a…
- News Roundup 16/10/26: Hemnet's 17x Price Hike, REA Shorted & PPW Madrid Countdown · 43 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, we dig into Hemnet's 16.8x price rise over a decade and what it has cost the Swedish portal, ask whether vendor-paid advertising is really the…
- Why Phone Leads Still Win in the Age of AI with Ryan Gallagher, Founder & CEO at iovox · 53 min · Season 3Ryan Gallagher, Founder & CEO of iovox, joins Edmund Keith and Simon Baker to talk about what communications data really says about marketplace leads. He explains why swapping…
- News Roundup 09/10/26: AI-first Portals, M&A Updates and Product Talk · 44 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, three AI-first portals launch in the UK and Australia, 360Latam and SeLoger both buy niche players, and we ask whether the industry talks too much…
- News Roundup 02/10/26: Zillow In Court, REA Backs Distilled, Hemnet's Free Tier & Rightmove Activist · 46 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, Ed, Harvey and Simon cover four big stories from four big companies: Zillow's latest legal setback, REA Group's return to Europe, Hemnet's…
- Are Portals Becoming Someone Else’s Lunch?, with Malcolm Myers · 51 min · Season 3Harvey Hancock hosts Simon Baker and Malcolm Myers for a wide-ranging conversation about portals, AI, agents, M&A and brokerage, ahead of Malcolm's keynote presentation at the…
- News Roundup 25/09/26: Idealista Signs Orpi In France, Compass See It First & Portal Shake-Up · 42 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, Idealista lands its first big agency partner in France, Compass puts serious marketing money behind its exclusive listings, and a wave of leadership…
- The Portal That Takes the Buyer's Side, With Maxim Bours, Co-Founder & CEO of Huispedia · 47 min · Season 3Maxim Bours co-founded Huispedia in 2018, after he and co-founder Ramon, both then working in IT at KLM, each tried to buy a house and found a Dutch market where listings were…
- News Roundup 18/09/26: REA Vs ACCC, Zillow Vs MRED, Hemnet's Buyback & Schibsted Vs Schibsted · 49 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, regulators and courts take centre stage: REA Group settles with the ACCC, a Chicago judge hands MRED and Compass a win over Zillow, Hemnet's activist…
- Exploring an AI-first Vacation Rentals Marketplace, with Christian Schwarz Lausten, CEO at Landfolk · 48 min · Season 3Simon Baker and Harvey Hancock are joined by Christian Schwarz Lausten, founder and CEO at Landfolk, for a peek behind the curtain of an increasingly AI-first vacation rentals…
- News Roundup 11/09/26: Zoopla Opens The Books, The Narrative Lever & Claims Nobody Checks · 44 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, Zoopla breaks cover with a full set of FY2025 numbers, and that sets up a longer argument about the cheapest growth lever in the portal business: the…
- Reupload: The War on Portals, with Mike DelPrete · 41 min · Season 3Hi everyone - we have reuploaded our interview with Mike as there was an audio dropout in the original episode. Sorry for this - it sounded great during recording and editing!…
- The War on Portals, with Mike DelPrete · 41 min · Season 3Harvey Hancock is joined by Mike DelPrete and Simon Baker to unpack the war on portals. 00:00 - intros 00:52 - Mike's Madrid preview 04:12 - The FTC's settlement with Zillow and…
- News Roundup 04/09/26: Portal Shares Rebound, Compass vs StreetEasy & Silver Lake Sells Hometrack · 36 min · Season 3In this week's news roundup, Ed, Harvey and Simon look at a portal share price recovery that's outpacing the market, the escalating Compass–StreetEasy standoff in New York, and…
- Going Viral with 'Moving Out', with Rita Goh · 39 min · Season 3Harvey speaks with Rita Goh from Property Guru about the company’s “Moving Out” micro-drama campaign, a social-first marketing experiment that went viral in Singapore, and…
- News Roundup, 28/08/2026: Idealista, Zillow, Bezrealitky, and more... · 47 min · Season 3Harvey joins Simon for a fast-moving news roundup covering Idealista’s planned expansion into France, Zillow’s FTC settlement over its Redfin rentals deal, and results from KE…
- News Roundup, 21/08/26: Silver Lake, Redfin, Boneo, and Expansions · 51 minSimon and Harvey get together for a roundup of this week's news stories, including Silver Lake's Housetrack divestment, new data on Redfin and Boneo, and a long conversation…
- News Roundup 14/08/26: Financials Season Continues · 50 minSimon and Harvey catch up on some financial results around the world, with some adjacent conversations including traffic, hirings, amortization, LLM traffic, legislation changes…
