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The PPW Podcast — 138 episodes

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News Roundup 03/07/26: CoStar Group, Square Yards, Zillow + Google, Consideration Phase

2

Evolving Zumper from Lead Delivery to Leasing Outcomes, with Shawn Mullahy, CEO at Zumper

3

The Real Estate Marketplace Threat Landscape: With Toby Chapman, Partner & OC&C Strategy Consultants

4

News Roundup 05/06: CoStar Pays $800M For Zonda + Testing Realtor.com's New RealAssist AI

5

News Roundup 29/05/26: Scout24's Agentic Future, Zillow Defends Listings, Google's RE Return

6

Share Prices, Narratives & AI Experimentation | Christian Printzell Halvorsen, CEO of Vend

7

Zillow vs Compass Round 2 + Financial Results From REA Group, Realtor.com & Rightmove

8

News Roundup: Pre-Market Polarisation, Square Yards, Vend's AI Unit & Portal Comms

9

News Roundup 01/05/26: Q1 Results, Savvy UK Agents + The Perfect 'And Finally'

10

The Past, Present and Future of Building with Concrete, with Qingyang Chang, founder at ConcreteAI

11

News Roundup 24/04/26: Rightmove Gets Commercial, Jinka vs Leboncoin, Immobiliare.it Taps Subito

12

Findings from the Global Property Portal Index, with Stuart Shapley and Fouad Bekkar

13

News Roundup 17/04/26: Casavo Pivots (Again), 25-Year-Old Portal Shuts & Domain Frees Matterport

14

How Do Agents Think About Marketing? With We Are Unchained Founder, Simon Leadbetter

15

News Roundup, 10/04/26

16

AI, Data and Product at Swiss Marketplace Group, with Martin Waeber, Head of Real Estate at SMG

17

News Roundup, 02/04/2026: Rightmove Sued, Zillow Vs CoStar Lawsuit, Hemnet's Bet

18

News Roundup 27/03/26: Zillow Pre-Market Scheme, More AI Product Updates, Domain Price Freeze

19

Bonus Episode: On Stage At PPW Bangkok 2026

20

Daft’s Vendor Paid Advertising Journey: With Adam Ferguson, CCO of Daft.ie

21

News Roundup 13/03/26: CoStar Feud, Portals Turn To AI Search, Purplebricks Founders Return

22

Where Are We With AI-Powered Real Estate Search? With Mathew Heywood, CEO of NeuralIndex

23

News Roundup, 27 February 2026 CoStar Q4, Trouble in Sweden

24

Building Financial Infastructures for Real Estate, with Edoardo Ribichesu, CEO of Homepay

25

News Roundup 20/02/26 Homes.com’s Big AI Announcement and Domain Divestitures

26

Why Did Zumper Build An App for ChatGPT? With Anthemos Georgiades, Co-Founder & CEO of Zumper

27

News Roundup 13/02/26 Financial Results for Zillow, REA, Realtor and Vend + More ChatGPT Plugins

28

Stepping On Toes In South Africa, With Adriaan Grove, CEO of Entegral

29

News Roundup 6/2/26: CoStar’s Investor Spat, QuintoAndar Invests in Rio, Leboncoin Shuts Vertical

30

Operating From Trinidad to Mongolia: With Slava Rodriguez, Real Estate Vertical Director at Larixon

31

News Roundup: CoStar vs Investor Feud, Hemnet’s Q4 and M&A Speculation in The UAE

32

Is The AI Threat To Real Estate Portals Overblown? With Giles Thorne

33

News Roundup: US Portal Wars, Casavo Rolls The Dice, Inconsistent Regulatory Outcomes

34

From a Marketplace to 'Taking Responsibility' in Rental Management, with Andries Oudshoorn

35

Why Are Real Estate Portal Operators' Share Prices Plummeting? With EIV Founder, Malcolm Myers

36

Why Google's Listings Test Matters, with Mike DelPrete

37

Using Pre-market Listings And A Unique Network To Take On Hemnet, With Boneo CEO, Fredrik Engdahl

38

REA Partners with OpenAI, Zillow’s ‘No Win’ Situation, Product Updates from Hemnet & idealista + Portal Financial Roundup

39

Traffic in Australia, Market Leadership in France, SMG Acquisition and IPO Review + Zillow Update

40

Lawsuits Target Rightmove and Zillow + Results from Realtor.com, REA Group, Beike and Lifull

41

Cutbacks at SeLoger, Yad2 Valued at $1.2 Billion, Financials Season + Is innovation Accelerating?

42

The Most Interesting Company in the Industry: Deep Diving CoStar Group’s Q3 Results

43

Live From PropTech & Portal Watch Madrid 2025

44

Operating as an Industry-Backed Market Leader with Funda CEO, Joost Dop

45

The Big Retail Opportunity for Real Estate Portals with PropTexx CEO, Stefan Gunnarsson

46

Previewing PropTech & Portal Watch Madrid 2025

47

Why Aren’t Real Estate Portals Embracing Search Innovation? With Taha Dar, CEO of SearchSmartly

48

Fourth Owner in Two Years for Fotocasa, Opendoor Madness, Zoopla Takes a Hit and Another Lawsuit for Zillow

49

Understanding France's First AI-Powered Real Estate Marketplace - With Remy Fabre, CEO of Zefir

50

Too Late to Start a New Portal? Scout24 Makes the DAX, Plus Our Product & Services Roundup

51

Property Finder Investment, Big Departure from REA, Hemnet’s Dilemma and OpenAI to Partner With a Portal?

52

Spaghetti Code, Credit Systems, User Profiles and a Cars Vertical - With Ingatlan.com CEO, József Keleti

53

Revolutionising Real Estate with AI, with Coraly CEO, Fouad Bekkar

54

CoStar's Domain Purchase, SMG to Go Public? Fresh Start for Opendoor + FDV's Colombian Headache

55

Going Niche to Compete with Giants in Australia with Mike Bird, CEO of Apartments.com.au

56

REA Gets a New CEO, Property Finder Not Floating Yet, KE Holdings Settles Investor Dispute & Homes.com’s New Segment

57

Roundup: Another Lawsuit for Zillow, REA’s Innovative Investment & Financials and M&A Roundup

58

Lessons From Brazil's diverse Real Estate Market With Marcos Leite, GM of OLX Brasil

59

Roundup: REA’s CEO Dilemma, More Mudslinging in the US, M&A Roundup and Portal Financials

60

Navigating Vend’s Vertical Transformation, With Vend CEO, Christian Halvorsen

61

Why Is Compass Suing Zillow? With Compass SVP of Growth & Communications, Rory Golod

62

Roundup: Compass Sues Zillow, Realtor.com Weighs In and Adevinta Spain For Sale

63

Running Canada’s Leading Rental Portal Network with rentsync CEO, Max Steinman

64

News Roundup: Domain Rename, QuintoAndar Ditches Guarantees, TradeMe’s Media Investment and Competition Authorities vs Portals

65

Waking a Sleeping Classifieds Giant in Germany with Kleinanzeigen VP of Real Estate, Simon Bray

66

Being a ‘Dominant Advertising Portal’ in Southeast Asia, with 99 Group CEO, Darius Cheung

67

News Roundup: REA Under Investigation, Square Yards Profitable FY, Big Money for Egyptian Portal and Zillow’s Controversial New Feature

68

Why Haven’t Those ‘Demographic Tailwinds’ Worked Out in Africa Yet?

69

Anecdotes and Lessons from Running The REA Group, with Simon Baker

70

News Roundup: CoStar Buys Domain, Free Boosts on Homes.com, OnTheMarket Traffic Controversy and a PR Disaster In India

71

News Roundup, 30 April 2025

72

Finding a Niche Within a Niche, with Margaux Scalisi

73

News Roundup: CCP Debate, CoStar Impetus for Homes.com, Croatian Domain Names & Deep Demographics

74

Building a Trustworthy Real Estate Marketplace in Egypt, With Property Sorted Co-Founder, Abdelrahman Zohairy

75

Lessons from U.S. Real Estate, with Mike DelPrete

76

Roundup: Immobiliare.it in Spain, RockFin, CoStar’s Australian Quest, a Russian MLS and Politicians vs Portals

77

Why Is Zoopla So Confident Despite the UK Competiton? With Zoopla COO, Rich Hayes

78

How to Take On Established Market Leaders With Adevinta Spain GM, Tony Blamey

79

Bangkok Conference Roundup

80

The Future of Real Estate Portals with Toby Chapman, Partner at OC&C Strategy

81

The Real Estate Portal Landscape with Toby Chapman, Partner at OC&C Strategy

82

From Classifieds to Transactional in Latin America with Ricardo Frechou

83

News Roundup: CoStar-Domain Deal, PropertyGuru Layoffs and US Rental Wars

84

Should Portals be Terrified by AI Agentic Search? with Mal McCallion

85

Building Real Estate Portals Around The World with Theo Mseka

86

Debating the Future of Real Estate Search with Christophe de Rassenfosse

87

News Roundup: 31 January, 2025

88

Taking on the biggest challenge in the industry with Mike Kenner

89

Building India's "Full Stack" PropTech Platform with Tanuj Shori

90

Roundup: Propertyguru, Beike, off-market listings and AI search

91

News Roundup (part 2), November 2024

92

Taking on a Horizontal Market Leader, with Sarah Wood

93

The U.S. and MLS in Context, with Brian Boero

94

News Roundup (part 1), November 2024

95

Tackling Inefficiencies in Slow Economies, with Matthew Page

96

News Roundup, October 2024

97

Barcelona Conference Roundup (AI version)

98

Going Public, a Double-Edged Sword

99

"REA-Move" Special: What now after failed bid?

100

Scaling and Exiting, with Joe Hanna

101

"REA-Move" Special: What's in a deal?

102

Pivoting from iBuyer to portal to pursue the Mexican opportunity with Bernardo Cordero, co-founder of Clau

103

Can EQT double its money? PropertyGuru special

104

Raising Capital in Today's Market, with Mike Plichta

105

Is CoStar Group Winning the Portal Wars Yet?

106

Should Real Estate Portals Put More Data in Front of Their Users?

107

Merging a Real Estate Marketplace with a FinTech Business

108

Are Real Estate Portals Invincible?

109

Under The Radar Real Estate Marketplaces

110

Is Time Up for Classifieds Aggregators? with Rubrikk CEO, Adil Osmani

111

AI Staging and the Consumer Experience, with Stefan Gunnarsson, CEO at Proptexx

112

The Idiot’s Guide to Running a Property Portal

113

Taking on Incumbents in the Italian Market, with Pietro Pellizzari

114

Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace, with Dhruv Agarwala

115

Growing to #1 in an Emerging Market, with Dhruv Agarwala

116

“I have an idea for a Startup: What do I do now?”

117

Lessons From Australia’s Leading Rentals Portal, with Greg Bader

118

News Roundup: Financials Season Winners and Losers

119

SEO vs Artificial Intelligence with Mike van der Heijden

120

What do AI-Powered Portals do Best?

121

Is CoStar Overpaying for Matterport?

122

Malcolm Myers on AI, CoStar, and Much More

123

Lessons From the Early Days of Rea Group With James Gray

124

From Portals to Transaction Platforms with Juwai IQI Chair, Georg Chmiel

125

From an Ice Cream Shop to a Real Estate Unicorn

126

Are Number Two Portals Zoopla, Realtor.com and Domain About to Lose Their Places?

127

Is AI the New ‘Mega Change’ for Property Portals?

128

Real Estate Portals and AI

129

The Past, Present and Future of Property Finder with Founder & CEO, Michael Lahyani

130

Who will win the US 'Portal Wars'?

131

Is iBuying dead? Who will buy idealista? What do we make of Zillow's results?

132

What's so special about Property Portal Watch? With James Gray

133

Building a Successful Niche Marketplace - The Snowonly Story

134

The Future of Real Estate Search

135

Vendor Paid Markets

136

Moving Portals Over Borders

137

Exciting new content from Online Marketplaces in 2024

138

Can Homes.com and OnTheMarket Become CoStar's Market Leaders?