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Housing Shuting Down Bangalore Office ? Company Denies

Housing.com earlier laid off 200 employees and is also rumored to have laid off 600 employees in August. Most of these layoffs have happened in engineering and operations team. Housing is also in talks with Snapdeal and NewsCorp for a potential deal.

Housing To Layoff 200 Employees This Month

The laying off will be across departments including product, marketing and operations. The move is being made so as to meet the cost cutting set by the shareholders. Earlier, the company had laid off 600 employees so as to focus on technology and product . The company currently employs 1,960 employees.

Housing.com appoints VP for New Real Estate Projects

Keerthi Kiran will be playing a key role in defining and executing strategy, building and managing the team, ensuring that Housing.com is serving developers and the consumers. He has been with Housing.com for almost 2 years now and has served in various capacities across the business.

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A Late Night Accident; 1 Dead, Housing.com Founder Booked For Negligence

The mishap occurred when the car jumped a speed breaker on LBS Marg which Sharma did not notice.

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Housing Partners With Tata Value Homes; Launches Interactive Home-Buying Feature – Slice View

Slice View provides the user with options to look through every floor and flat in a housing project and tp book a house seamlessly.

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Housing Secures $100mn Funding From SoftBank; Wants To Map EVERY House In The Country

SoftBank has invested $70 million and bought 30% stake in Housing.com

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Housing Launches Online Rental Agreements [Disruption]

Housing.com pays stamp duty on the behalf of tenants and landlords!

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Housing Launches Housing Home Loans

Housing Home Loans helps home seekers find a home loan that is customized to finance their purchases. Housing has partnered with major banks and top financial institutions for this initiative.

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Can Housing.com Disrupt Brokers?

Will it make a journey from a disruptive product to disruptive business model?

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Housing Does Guerrilla Marketing; Sponsors Raincoats of Mumbai Traffic Police

Housing has sponsored Mumbai police’ raincoat (3250 raincoats), as part of its CSR activity!

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Housing Raises Rs 115 cr Funding; Here’s Why They’re Killing It

Real estate classifieds portal Housing.com has raised Rs 115 cr in a round of investment led by Helion Venture partners & Qualcomm Ventures. Existing investor Nexus Venture Partners also participated in the round.

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Housing Launches New Projects Platform; Includes a 3D View of New Projects

Housing.com has a new feature and it looks promising. Users can now view upcoming housing projects with Housing.com’s latest feature ‘Housing New Projects’.

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Out with the Old: How Housing is Trying to Reinvent the Hunt for Rentals

Mumbai based Housing.com has not only changed the way people look for rental spaces, it has also given older, more established rivals a run for their money.