Pakistan’s largest property website, Zameen.com, has hit a miraculous 2 million property listings.
2015 was a great year for this real estate-based startup. They hit a 1 million property listing mark in March last year, released an iOS app, raised $9 Million in funding, was listed among the top 8 property portals in the world and boast 3 million monthly visitors on the website. 2016 appears to have started of with continuous success for them.
Zameen.com has exhibited impressive growth over the last year, posting massive gains in all metrics such as paying agencies and traffic, with 160,000 new listings being added to the website every month from across Pakistan.
The senior management pays particular focus on the quality of the content, with every new listing being carefully vetted by a large, dedicated operations team comprising of quality control staff, photographers and data entry operators.
Speaking of this remarkable feat, Zameen.com’s CEO, Zeeshan Ali Khan said:
“As we celebrate the 2 millionth listing on Zameen.com since the website’s inception, we are humbled but not surprised. A lot of hard work has gone into making this possible. Our goal remains constant: to make the most extensive and legitimate property database available to users in the most convenient way possible. With this propelling us forward, we have no intention of slowing down”.
Zameen.com was founded in 2006 by Zeeshan Ali Khan and his brother Imran. In the eearly days access was limited very few people and seeing that Pakistan’s market was not yet ripe, the brothers focused their attention on U.A.E instead. Meanwhile, the Pakistani market grew and in 2009, they noticed that the website’s traffic had increased dramatically. Today, they have a team of close to 500 people, offices and field presence in 30 major cities, and over 8,000 estate agencies on board. The portal also publishes a dedicated real estate magazine, hosts large-scale property expos around the country, and offers mobile apps on all major platforms.
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