A property portal Lamudi with over 6000 property listings in Ghana and more than 670,000 across 28 countries worldwide has marked its first anniversary. Lamudi was founded on October 13, 2013, by German startup incubator Rocket Internet.
Lamudi is real estate marketplace which offers sellers, buyers, landlords and renters a secure and easy-to-use platform to find or list properties online.
Lamudi a property website focusing on the emerging markets, grew by 116 percent between April and September this year, a statement issued by Mr Fidel Amoah, Lamudi Content Manager and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday said.
The statement said Lamudi Ghana over the past year has helped connect hundreds of house-hunters in the country.
?More than half the property listings from across the Lamudi network come from its Asian websites, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
?In April, Lamudi received $ 7 million in investment to grow its operations in Asia,? the statement stated.
According to the statement, Lamudi is now the leading property portal in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
It said the property platform was launched in 16 countries one year ago and had since grown to cover 28 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, with the Ghana operations being launched in October 2013.
Led by Global Co-Founders Paul Philipp Hermann, Kian Moini and Antonius Salis, Lamudi now employs more than 400 staff split between its headquarters in Berlin and local teams in each market, it stated.
Global Co-Founder and Managing Director, Paul Philipp Hermann, said the goal from the very beginning has been to deliver a high-quality property portal in markets where searching for real estate online is a relatively new phenomenon. In all those markets we want to establish Lamudi as the market leader.
Kian Moini, Global Co-Founder and Managing Director said: ?House-hunters in these regions should not be overlooked; as the internet becomes more widespread, they are seeking out the same services that are already commonplace in more established markets.
“Lamudi is innovative because we tackle markets that other property portals have so far ignored.
“We expect Lamudi?s growth spurt to continue for the remainder of 2014, and beyond. It is for this reason that we believe our product has resonated so strongly with property-seekers around the world.?
The statement noted that globally, Lamudi launched both Android and iOS apps during 2014, which had been downloaded close to a 100,000 times since June.
