KUALA LUMPUR, 10 January 2012: HomeGuru.com.my, Malaysia's property expert, has announced the launch of its collaboration with Malaysiakini.com since the start of January 2012.
The move, which follows HomeGuru's similar arrangement with Yahoo! Malaysia in August 2011, entails a redirection to HomeGuru's homepage when visitors of Malaysiakini.com click on its ‘Property' tab, located at the top right-hand corner of every page within the independent news site.
Via the Malaysiakini.com Property tab, visitors can access HomeGuru's pages on Market Research Reports, Upcoming Events and Property Experts' Blog, as well as browse through the property portal's dedicated tabs that includes the likes of Find Property, Property News and Ask Guru.
Commenting on the agreement, Country Manager at HomeGuru Sdn Bhd Steven Tan said, "This collaboration with Malaysiakini.com marks continuous efforts to drive further traffic to both sites whilst amplifying brand awareness for HomeGuru, as it is undeniably that Malaysiakini.com has a reach that is widespread throughout the country and overseas as well."
Having tallied over 37 million page views and 750,000 video downloads per month to over 1.6 million absolute unique visitors (source: Google Analytics), Malaysiakini.com delivers daily news and views in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil and has achieved top rankings of being the most read news website as well as the most popular Malaysian website (source: Alexa).
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Media Contact:
Mr Jason Thoe, Head of Marketing
Contact number: +603 2279 7555 ext. 320
Email: jasonthoe@homeguru.com.my
Ms Widya Sharkawi, Editor
Contact number: +603 2279 7555 ext. 320
Email: widyawati@homeguru.com.my
About HomeGuru:
www.HomeGuru.com.my is the fastest growing Malaysian property portal set up as part of a joint venture between PropertyGuru Group and Malaysia's RedBerry. Currently the 80th ranked website in Malaysia based on Alexa, from its initial ranking of #499 in January 2011, HomeGuru has over 345,000 users viewing more than 1.7 million pages monthly. With over 70,000 listings and 3,000 agents signed up, HomeGuru gives consumers the platform to find properties for purchase, sale, rental or investment and a direct channel to search for and contact agents. An SME Tiger Award Winner for Online Business (Gold Award), HomeGuru is designed with the end-user in mind; featuring real-time access to multimedia-rich content, covering property-related products, services, news, advice, guides, tools and a rapidly growing online property database in Malaysia.
About PropertyGuru Group:
PropertyGuru was founded in 2006 as a self-funded company, with a vision to make the property search process a breeze for buyers, sellers and investors. Taking advantage of Asia's growing affluence for property and the online boom, it received its first VC investment funding in 2008. Since then, the company has grown rapidly, reaping profits and positive cash flow in 2009, tripling revenue in 2010.
PropertyGuru is now Asia's leading online property portal, with a presence in 10 countries, including offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and partnerships with leading property websites in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, China and Macau. It has almost 6 million buyers viewing approximately 55 million property pages monthly, with a growing database of 350,000 opted-in buyers and over 19,000 real estate agents.
PropertyGuru provides an integrated media platform that real estate developers and agencies can use to promote their brands and generate sales leads. The entire PropertyGuru community boasts 400,000 residential and commercial properties and clients include almost 500 prominent developers from Asia, Europe and the Americas, as well as over 19,000 real estate agents in Asia.
PropertyGuru has also won multiple awards, including the Overseas Property Professional "Best Online Media (Gold) Award 2011" and "Best Online Service (Silver) Award 2011", Red Herring "Top 100 Asia Technology Award 2011", Hitwise "No.1 Website in the Property Industry" award, the Singapore IT Federation (SITF) award for "Best Mobile Application (Merit) 2011" and "E-Enterprise Company 2010", the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA) award for "Best Performing VC Backed Company 2010", Marketing Magazine's "Top Digital Media of the Year 2010" award, CNBC World's "Best Property Portal Award 2009" and the "Google Zeitgeist Singapore 9th Fastest Rising Search Term 2009".