Unidad Buys Stake in globaliza.com

Spanish online publisher Unidad Editorial has bought a 22 percent stake in globaliza.com, which claims to be Spain’s third most popular real estate classifieds website.

A globaliza.com blog post explains that the website has been in business for 11 years and sees 1.2 million visitors per month. globaliza.com says these visitors generate 180,000 communications between buyers and sellers on the website.

globaliza.com works on a free-to-list, pay-to-upgrade model.

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