Makaan.com

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Makaan.com
Makaan-logo.png
Type of business Real estate
Available inEnglish
Headquarters Gurgaon, India
Founder(s) Anupam Mittal, Aditya Verma
CEODhruv Agarwala
IndustryReal Estate
URL www.makaan.com
Launched2007;17 years ago (2007)

Makaan.com is an online real estate portal in India, launched in 2007. It has a rating system for brokers. [1]

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History

Makaan.com was a part of the Anupam Mittal-promoted People Group. The group owned Shaadi.com and Mauj. [2]

Promoters

In April 2015, PropTiger.com, an independent online real estate advisor, took over Makaan.com. [3] Makaan.com is now a part of Elara Technologies Private Ltd., Singapore, which is also the company that owns PropTiger.com. Elara Technologies PVT Limited is a digital real estate marketing and transaction service provider. SAIF Partners, Accel Partners, and Horizons Ventures are some of the major investors in Elara. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a global media, book publishing, and digital real estate services company, took a 25% stake in Elara in November 2014. [4]

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