RentSpace.sg goes live
November 12, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs
Filed under Entrepreneurs, Web
Brought to you by the same team who gave us HomeSpace.sg, we now have its sister, RentSpace.sg! Face it, searching for rentals tends to be a painful and time-consuming endeavour - RentSpace aims to make this process painless for you.
As a teaser to the launch, two viral videos were released last month that got some buzz going for RentSpace. View them here and here.
While RentSpace seems to be off to a good start with more than a thousand listings on their site. They should be looking to increasing this figure to make their search more comprehensive. At the moment, thousand listings just won’t cut it.
But one thing that is cool though, is the rental request page. This page allows you to submit a request for a property that you are looking for. Many a time, rentals are not marketed well enough and hence do not get the level of exposure that they should. Let them know what you’re looking for (location, budget, size) and they’ll have someone look for a unit that meets your criteria, even if it’s not on RentSpace. Now that’s customer service!
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cedchong on Wed, 12th Nov 2008 3:39 pm
im not exactly sure why they would separate rentspace.com from homespace.com. Surely both concepts can exist on the same site. Makes marketing so much tougher with 2 identities, especially against the other more established players in this space.
Vin on Wed, 12th Nov 2008 5:34 pm
Hey Ced, actually it really depends how you slice it. We did a pretty through analysis and realized that the demographics of people looking for sales and rentals are very different. As such, it makes marketing easier, because each site has it’s own target audience.
Moreover, the product features over time will evolve to suit the different segments even better. :)
Peter on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 5:01 pm
Why are you guys just trying to win in the Singapore marketspace instead of focusing on the US/European Markets? Whats the potential revenue assuming you become one of the largest players in this space in SG versus becoming one of many players for US/Europe markets?
geekycoder on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 10:02 pm
Vin,
why not place a link to homespace.sg or rentspace.sg under the top header ?
Eg Under HomeSpace.sg header banner, put statement such as
Consider Renting ? Try RentSpace.sg
In RentSpace.sg,
Consider Buying ? Try HomeSpace.sg
And when click, will open another browser tab window, in this way user can navigate between the windows.
This at least gives user a perception of integration albeit in more limited way.
Vin on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 11:49 pm
We’re working on a way to do somewhat seamless integration, where the user can click on a button on the map and it will take them to the other site and display homes for sale or rental accordingly.
Peter, we do plan to expand overseas, just need to take it one step at a time. Real estate needs to be highly localized and every market is slightly different. :)
Faliq on Sat, 7th Mar 2009 11:59 am
Vin,
Can u give some hint on what API and methodology
u use in developing both rentspace and homespace.
Vin on Sat, 7th Mar 2009 10:16 pm
Hey Faliq, we use RoR, GMaps and some javascript libraries…
Faliq on Mon, 9th Mar 2009 6:15 pm
Thx Vin,
Im zero on mashing up service. How bout
the data being used, apart from user input
data. By the way, what is the database being
used?
I know this leads to chain of question, i do
really need help on this.
Hope u can be my mentor :)
p/s : lack of guidance here in m’sia