Comments on: 100Floors – Real Estate Marketplace

By: sichermove

sichermove — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:38:56 +0000

Bubbles in real estate India.

By: Shekhar

Shekhar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:52:12 +0000

I observed their alexa rank to be 95K. I dont think that the paid traffic will take them any longer. 100floors need to work on building value and not spending too much on marketing. Attempt was to make some me-too stuff. Good luck guys anyway.

By: PerSquareFeet

PerSquareFeet — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:27:23 +0000

@Sandeep, PerSquareFeet is not under Sulekha’s leadership. From where did you get this info? Or are you talking about some other portal?

By: Vinodh Nandakumar

Vinodh Nandakumar — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:16:34 +0000

@persqaurefeet Thanks for your interest in 100floors. Quality of data on our site is a very critical performance indicator for us and we strive to keep the bar high on this. Real estate related stats and trends are something which is not available currently and we realize it would add a lot of value and rest assured we are looking at this. Let’s have an offline conversation sometime and discuss other issues and possible alliances. I’m on vinodh@suksh.com

@Chintan We appreciate you taking the time and effort to try out 100floors.com Noted the issues that you have mentioned, we will iron these out in the days to come. Maps and data around maps are a tricky proposition (as Ashish also mentioned) especially in the India scenario of connectivity etc, so we are trying out some things currently internally to improve the experience around maps.

@Alok Getting consumers access to real data from real people is our key goal. Agree to the online and offline strategy part, in fact we are looking at several aspects around this.

By: Alok

Alok — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:04:16 +0000

Ashish, Well I do think that information aggregation is a problem and a good problem to be solving especially in a space like real estate in India where data is not openly available and in the offline reference which you made, brokers hardly share their data with other brokers hence leading to a limitation in choice especially in the rental segment. Key to success could be an online and offline strategy which looks like 100floors is getting at, though quite far away from it in the near future. Found maps to be quite useful especially in terms of visualizing the area around.

By: Sameer

Sameer — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:07:03 +0000

@Chintan, Very true! Infact, the focus is purely on making money..rather than user experience..
infact, overall UI is quite buggy..and somehow I was able to see other user’s internet mail id as well..so its open for spam.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:59:45 +0000

Persquarefeet under Sulekha’s leadership is the best real estate portal in India. I don’t think 100floors has a chance with Sulekha pioneering the real estate business in the world

From whom have they raised this $1.5m?

By: Chintan

Chintan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:44:04 +0000

I just tried this out. While the concept is good. I feel they have spent more focus on getting ads and other biz deals than actually dealing with product usability. Some case in points:
1. several agents are listed as individuals. This adulterates the categorization.
2. There is a lot of redundancy in local neighbourhood list for a given city. E.g. There is Airport Road & AirportRoad and airport road.
3. Maps integration is pretty useless. For a given property the map seems to indicate the location of the property while actually it is indicating the location of the neighbourhood of the property.

I suggest they make the site more usable for all target customers before focusing on biz deals and ad revenues.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:18:29 +0000

seems like a me too effort in a market crowded by giants… Value proposition isn’t strong enough….

By: PerSquareFeet

PerSquareFeet — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:16:34 +0000

I have seen this website earlier and it sounds really interesting to me. I’ve specially noticed that websites like 99acres and all have a lot of duplicate listings as well as lot of junk (non-existent) properties listed. If somehow this issue s taken care of, then real value can be added. Another interesting think that they can do is to creates some area wise trends data based on the listings that they get on the website.