FazWaz

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FazWaz PTE
FazWaz
Company type Private
Industry
FoundedApril 24, 2015;8 years ago (2015-04-24) in Phuket Province, Thailand
Founder
  • Michael Kenner
  • Paul Trayman
  • Brennan Campbell
Headquarters
Bangkok
,
Thailand
Area served
Key people
Website fazwazgroup.com

FazWaz, also known as FazWaz Group, is a property technology company and real estate marketplace based in Thailand serving greater Southeast Asia [1] , with agency offices operating in all six major regions of Thailand: Phuket Province, Bangkok, Ko Samui, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and Hua Hin District. [2]

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History

The website was first launched in 2015 as a data-driven property platform attempting to solve buyers' issues with market transparency and real home values. [3] At this time, FazWaz served just the Phuket condominium market and differentiated from other property sites by its focus on "accurate and up-to-date data". [4] [5]

Over the first few years of operation, FazWaz continued to gather data on additional regions in Thailand, eventually claiming to offer up-to-date data on all homes for sale and rent in Thailand, with current offerings listed as 40,447 total units. [6] In addition to these data-driven expansions, FazWaz Group partnered with companies like ThaiVisa, offering a search portal on the ThaiVisa website. [7] A network of partnerships with local developers and agencies as well as more-established property companies allowed FazWaz to develop marketing and growth strategies such as native site translations in six languages, soft-launches of sister FazWaz sites with offerings in six additional countries in Southeast Asia plus United Arab Emirates, and new-brand sites like BaanThai focusing on capturing other aspects of the Thailand real estate market. [8] [9]

In 2019, FazWaz officially announced its overseas expansion efforts focusing primarily on improving market transparency on homes in Dubai and Vietnam. [10] A Phuket Property Watch article claims the site saw a 20% rise in organic traffic rankings between the months of December 2018 and January 2019. [11] Recently the group announced that it had secured pre-Series A funding from undisclosed investors based in Singapore. [12] [13]

Milestones

DateEvent [14]
Dec 2020FazWaz raises pre-series A, with CAV Investment Group, 500 Tuk Tuks, Aries Capital and Alpha Founders Capital.
Oct 2019FazWaz announces seed funding from unnamed Singapore-based investors.
Sep 2019Version 3 of the FazWaz platform is developed and released.
Sep 2018FazWaz soft-launches platform sites in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and United Arab Emirates.
Mar 2018FazWaz Group site launched offering information on all company platform offerings.
Aug 2017Version 2 of the FazWaz platform is developed and released.
Apr 2015Official Launch of the FazWaz platform in Thailand.

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