Online portals have become the preferred tool.
Market experts have valued Housing.com at $700 million.
These days, one frequently hears of consolidation, rollback and even closure from the start-up world.
In India, he has already made investments in both his personal capacity and through DST Global, his venture firm.
New real estate portals like PropTiger and Commonfloor are also focusing on the secondary market in a big way.
From Twitter to Facebook to Spotify, everyone it seems is clambering aboard the social audio bandwagon. Neha Alawadhi reports.
CF Retina helps a potential buyer get a near-real experience.
Property sizes are shrinking in Mumbai.
Major shareholder Kinnevik, a Swedish investment firm, devalued Quikr by 45%, referring to the exaggerated revenue resulting from fraudulent transactions that rocked the company. Quikr is now valued at about $577 million.
Sumit Jain, CEO and co-founder, Commonfloor talks about serendipity and his entrepreneurial destiny.
About 5.5 million users are looking for real estate online in India
Property markets in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, which have had a dream run in recent years, are set to face a downturn.
One of the reasons behind the changing trend is that the applicants are spoiled for choice
NRIs are increasingly buying properties in India online.
OlaCabs' hyper-growth and an ambitious plan to expand to 100 cities by the end of 2015 are perhaps what attracted Japan's richest man, Masayoshi Son, chairman of telecom and media group SoftBank Corp, to announce an investment of $210 million (around Rs 1,260 crore) in the company.
Prominent recruiters were Flipkart, Urban Ladder, AskmeBazaar etc
The start-up works with 2,000 owners and hosts 10,000 tenants across four cities - Bengaluru, the National Capital Region, Hyderabad and Pune.
Quikr founder & CEO Pranay Chulet tells Raghu Krishnan and Bibhu Ranjan Mishra why money has never been an issue for Quikr and that someday he will make a romantic comedy.
Internet entrepreneurs are the next big thing in India.
The real estate sector is set to enter a progressive phase in 2015.
E-commerce is awash in money, raising concerns about whether this is just another unsustainable internet trend headed for a bust.
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