condogala.com

condogala.com is a new entrant in the condo property portal market place – competing with the likes of condo.com based out of Miami.  condogala.com has the aspiration of a global coverage and given the early stage of growth,  will be a site to watch.

 

 

Ownership | Market Position | Key Measurements | Market Coverage | Advertising Model | Financials | Site Sections | Technology | Key Management | History | Recent Press | Information Sources

Ownership

CondoGala.com is a privately funded venture of inMotion Real Estate Media, a real estate marketing company based in the U.S.

Market Position

CondoGala.com was recently launched, on October 1, and intends to be a leading site for condo development search and reviews.

Key Measurements
(October 2008)

Too early to provide significant metrics. N/A

Market Coverage

All major international condo markets with particular focus on the United States.

Advertising Model

Currently, there are two options for advertising on the site – featured listing and site sponsors. Site sponsors receive premium ad placement in the top-right corner (half-banner 234 x 60 or square 250 x 250) with impressions on every page of the site, except the home page. Featured listings are displayed in the footer area and would also receive impressions on all pages.

Property submissions are completely free and can be submitted by anyone and will be included, upon review and approval.

Financials

Unknown

Site Sections

The key sections of the website are:

• Property search

In addition, visitors to the site are able to comment on listings and read the reviews of other people visiting the site.

Technology

CondoGala is developed in PHP and it includes several AJAX components. The back-end platform utilizes MySQL.

Key Management

The key management are:

• Babak Samii – Founder

History

The site was conceptualized in spring of 2008 and development began in the summer. Originally, CondoGala was intended to be a catalogue of luxury property development websites but soon evolved as it was realized that a good platform for commenting and reviewing properties did not exist. In an effort to provide a forum to easily enable reviews of properties (in conjunction with key property information), CondoGala took a new, more lofty direction. The Beta site was launched October 1, 20008.

Recent Press

No links to recent press releases

Information Sources

Management Interview
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