Property discovery platform HousingMan, yesterday said in a statement that it has raised $1.5 million as seed funding to expand operations across PAN India.
The startup which is based out of Bengaluru-based was co-founded in the year 2015 by Two IITian Bhavadeep Reddy and Rajendran R to bridge the search gap between property buyers and sellers. “HousingMan has closed a seed fund round of $1.5 million from undisclosed sources,” the company said in a statement yesterday.
The company which has consolidated its presence in the last two years in some of the metropolitan cities which includes Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune will use the fund to scale to other key cities, it added.
HousingMan provides cognitive tools to shortlist a buyer’s preferences and then accordingly recommend properties to them. The startup latest innovative tool helps property agents in dealing with the transactions more easier and quicker which thereby results in higher manpower effciciency.
The latest technology is aiming to disrupt the brokerage industry as it can be easily remotely triggered and can also easily be managed to empower the local ecosystem.
“The Indian market is currently ripe for our model as the government is bringing about regulations like RERA and housing schemes like PMAY (Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana) to aid and assist the industry to achieve the goal of Housing for All in rapid time,” said Reddy.
Rajendran R said: “Home buyers are often confused with conflicting messages that they receive about properties. The reality is that one person may prefer a particular property which another person does not due to their preferences. We have hence developed tools that take into account the accurate preferences of buyers and to then recommend properties, resulting in making the decision making cycle shorter and quicker.”
