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  • Housing.com announces new ad campaign ‘ Parr…se Perfect’

    Housing.com announces new ad campaign ‘ Parr…se Perfect’

    Mumbai: Housing.com announced the launch of its latest TV and digital advertising campaign, “Parr…se Perfect.”

    With this new campaign, the company acknowledges that home buyers/renters or homeowners may end up not making a final decision to rent, buy, or sell for a variety of unique and personal reasons.

    The series of four ads was created by advertising firm McCann Erickson and is aimed at reaching over 100 million impressions, according to a statement from Housing.com.

    Housing.com, PropTiger.com, and Makaan.com Group CEO Dhruv Agarwala said, “We are really excited about our new ad campaign that captures the ethos on which Housing.com has been built—to facilitate the search and discovery for everyone till they find their perfect home. Our brand aspires to be a part of the consumer’s journey and provides them with maximum options so that they don’t have to settle for anything less than perfect.”

    With a clever word-play on the Hindi word Parr (which means “but,” referring to the many doubts that arise in the minds of anyone dealing with the question of property sale and purchase) in its slogan “Parr… se Perfect,” the Housing.com ad campaign showcases the real estate company’s basic principle of providing the maximum choices for homebuyers, owners, and tenants.

    Housing.com, PropTiger.com, and Makaan.com chief growth and marketing officer Snehil Gautam said,  “Through our brand-new ad campaign, we plan to send across a message to our audience that it is okay to have doubts when it comes to buying, selling, or renting a home. We all have doubts, and we shouldn’t bury them. At Housing.com, we are celebrating even the smallest of doubts as we are committed to providing maximum property options to home seekers and maximum customers to sellers and landlords.”

    Housing.com’s 360-degree campaign will help the company leverage high-impact TV, digital, and OTT platforms to capture more eyeballs with a blended media strategy.

    The campaign will be featured on live cricket and prime-time TV shows such as the T20 World Cup, Asia Cup, India vs Australia series, The Kapil Sharma Show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Khatron Ke Khiladi, Indian Idol, Superstar Singer, and Jhalak Dikhla Jaa, as well as social media for a multiplier effect.

  • Housing, PropTiger, Makaan blogs to be available on Alexa

    Housing, PropTiger, Makaan blogs to be available on Alexa

    MUMBAI: Elara Technologies, a Singapore-based digital real estate company and owner of Housing.com, PropTiger.com, and Makaan.com, has announced the launch of an initiative offering latest news of the Indian real estate sector on Alexa- compatible smart home devices. Alexa users will now be able to consume respective news and blog sections of housing news, PropGuide, and MakaanIQ on Amazon Alexa.

    To listen to daily updates, users need to add Housing News, MakaanIQ or PropGuide to the Alexa skill set, and it will read the latest news in real estate along with other news from sources that one may have added. The cloud-based voice service from Amazon Alexa will present a compact brief of the news that can be consumed efficiently by a user. 

    Housing.com, PropTiger.com and Makaan.com group CPTO Ravi Bhushan said, “With almost 28 per cent of queries, voice-enabled searches are the new frontier and they are expected to contribute 50 per cent of all global searches. We are always at the forefront of adopting technology and transforming customer experience by providing instant solutions. Getting our news content in the voice format is another step towards offering our customers the utmost convenience. We see immense potential in serving informational queries such as latest news, property rates, how to guides and more such content in the voice format.”

    “With emerging technologies shaping our lifestyle and dependencies, the recent development demonstrates our single-minded focus and commitment towards consumers, helping them experience property in a way never envisaged before. Most forward-thinking companies have pioneered change, in our field, we are delighted to have done it again,” added Bhushan.

  • News Corp backed PropTiger acquires Makaan.com

    News Corp backed PropTiger acquires Makaan.com

    MUMBAI: With an aim to ramp up its presence in India’s secondary property market, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp-backed real estate portal PropTiger has acquired rival Makaan.com for an undisclosed amount.

     

    PropTiger’s parent firm Elara Technologies has entered into a transaction with Makaan.com. Both portals will run separately.

     

    “Our parent firm Elara has acquired Makaan.com, which will keep operating as a separate portal. No fresh funds were raised for this acquisition,” PropTiger.com co-founder Dhruv Agarwala told PTI.

     

    The acquisition creates a comprehensive online real-estate platform, which will offer end-to-end services to home buyers, real estate developers, property brokers, banks and private equity investors. Since 2011, around 12,000 homes worth $1.2 billion have been purchased through PropTiger’s platform.

     

    The Noida-based firm, which was founded in February 2011, has eight offices in the country with employee strength of around 500. In November last year, News Corp had acquired 25 per cent stake in PropTiger for $30 million as part of its strategy to expand presence in digital media.

     

    Earlier this month, PropTiger also acquired the Bangalore-based digital interaction design company Out of Box Interaction (OoBI), which specialises in displaying real estate projects in an immersive way.

     

    Entrepreneur and investor Anupam Mittal, whose other digital ventures include Shaadi.com and Mauj Mobile, founded Makaan.com within People Group.