LONDON, 29 NOVEMBER 2013 – PropertyGuru Group, Asia’s Leading Online Property Group, bagged the gold award for Best Online Service at the OPP Awards for Excellence gala dinner held at the Natural History Museum. Judged by independent industry leaders from around the globe, the OPP Awards celebrated the best property developers, real estate agents and associated companies across 34 award categories.
This is the third time PropertyGuru has clinched an OPP award in the Best Online Service category, previously securing Bronze in 2012 and Silver in 2011. The achievement was also a testament to the Group’s regional brand strength and popularity, being the only Asian property portal to secure a victory at the internationally recognized awards show.
PropertyGuru’s win is a result of continued focus on the development and improvement of AgentNet, a comprehensive online platform which enables agents to easily market their properties in real-time alongside a host of support functions and services specially implemented to expand their exposure.
Commenting on the win, Sarah Baker, Head of Product for PropertyGuru, said “Product development and management is one of the key drivers for our success. In a digital age where the customer always comes first, it is important to take into account the user’s experience to make sure we more than satisfy their requirements. In short, our challenge is to ensure that we continuously innovate our products and services to meet the changing needs of our agent subscribers.”
Steve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PropertyGuru Group mentioned, “It is indeed heartening to know that PropertyGuru has managed, yet again, to secure another milestone in its short history. Customer service is integral to PropertyGuru and as our brand continues to grow, it is important that we consistently foster and build the service-excellence oriented culture we have to provide the best quality online products services in the market”.
Real estate agents, along with property seekers, can be rest assured that they can look towards PropertyGuru to better their business or in finding their ideal home.”
PropertyGuru was also awarded Bronze in the Best Media category.
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EDITOR’S NOTES
PropertyGuru Group PropertyGuru Group is Asia’s leading online property portal group used by almost 11 million property buyers, viewing over 89 million property pages and generating over 350,000 enquiries for real estate developer and agent advertisers – every month. Headquartered in Singapore, PropertyGuru was founded in 2006 by 2 entrepreneurs with a vision to simplify the property search process and help buyers, sellers and investors make better property decisions faster. Taking advantage of Asia’s growing affluence, property demand and online explosion, it received its first VC investment funding in 2008 and most recently secured approximately $60m investment in 2012 from Deutsche Telekom, South East Asia’s largest digital investment to date. Since its launch, PropertyGuru has reported rapid growth and most recently announced a record 96% increase in revenue, 60% increase in internet users and 50% increase in paying agent advertisers to over 24,000 – in 2012.
Steve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PropertyGuru GroupSteve is an award-winning entrepreneur. For the last two decades, Steve built profitable companies throughout Asia and Europe and in 2006 along with his partner Jani Rautiainen, founded PropertyGuru Group. Under the auspices of this newly established holding group, PropertyGuru.com.sg was started with the aim of providing a one-stop online shop for the listing and sale of residential properties to individual and institutional home buyers and investors respectively. Prior to Steve’s current role, he held executive positions in various venture capital firms including Skype, AOL, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Extreme Media, iPass and Ariadne Capital. In all, Steve’s expertise in leading global teams resulted in a US$500 million turnover for a business unit for Cable & Wireless. In 2007, Steve was awarded the Spirit of Enterprise Award, in recognition of his contributions to entrepreneurship in Singapore. Steve is a non-executive director for two other firms, an angel investor and member of the Business Angels Network South East Asia.
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