Global Listings

What Global Listings does

Global Listings, Inc. is a privately held online property listings marketplace and search engine founded in 2016, headquartered in Miami, Florida (with a secondary office in Irvine, California), and operating as a subsidiary of the World Property Markets conglomerate. The platform aggregates approximately 2.1 million active property listings across 102 countries, segmented into residential (2.7M), commercial (133,183), vacation (461), and land (431,913) categories, with transactions spanning sale, rent, and auction. The core user-facing product is a free global property search experience, while property owners, agents, and developers pay to post and promote listings.

The business operates a multi-stream revenue model layered atop a self-serve platform: one-time listing fees and Premium Listings Service for individual postings; recurring GLS Memberships for bulk uploads; API Listings Data Licensing for programmatic data distribution to third-party websites and applications; Private Label Marketplace licensing for real estate associations and MLS organizations; and advertising via Local Search Sponsorships and FSBO advertising. Distribution is amplified through a syndication network that pushes listings simultaneously to newspaper partner websites and authorized API affiliates upon data feed approval (within 1–2 days).

Technical infrastructure centers on a proprietary listings database supporting bulk ingestion via GL XML and GL CSV data feed formats plus IDX compatibility, with staff verification and adaptation capabilities for custom formats. The platform extends into a broader real estate services network of affiliated sub-brands under the World Property Markets umbrella, including World Property Exchange, World Property Search, Better MLS, Price Engine, Property Signals, and Sentient Mortgage. No external funding rounds, institutional investors, or disclosed financial metrics are available; the company is privately held within the parent conglomerate.

Name

Global Listings

Legal name

Global Listings, Inc.

Website

https://globallistings.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Global Listings is a private online property listings marketplace serving individual sellers, agents, brokers, and real estate associations, hosting 2.1M+ active listings across 102 countries via free search, paid postings, bulk data feeds, API licensing, and white-label deployments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Marketplace

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (53121), Directory and Mailing List Publishers (51314)

SIC

Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Seller Representation & Listing Services (BPAJAAAK)

Keywords

• Property listings marketplace
• Real estate advertising
• Online property platform
• Listing aggregation services
• Property search engine

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Listing Fees: Charges for posting property listings on the platform. Users can view listings for free; paid features enable posting and premium placement.
2. Premium Listings Service: Individual premium property listing service with enhanced visibility for sellers and agents.
3. Global Listings Service (GLS) Memberships: Monthly membership plans offering discounted bulk listing uploads to the worldwide property listings search engine.
4. API Listings Data Licensing: Revenue from licensing property listing data to third-party websites and applications via API data feeds.
5. Private Label Marketplace Services: White-label marketplace services provided to real estate associations and MLS organizations, enabling them to operate branded property listings platforms.
6. Local Search Sponsorships: Sponsored placement and visibility features within geographic search results on the platform.
7. For Sale By Owner Advertising: Dedicated advertising service targeting for-sale-by-owner property sellers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Global Listings operates a global online marketplace that connects property sellers (real estate agents, brokers, owners, and developers) with buyers across 102 countries. The platform supports self-serve posting and browsing of more than 2.1 million active property listings, complemented by tiered membership plans, premium listing upgrades, API/data feeds, and white-label private-label marketplace services for partner organizations.

Product overview

Global Listings is a global property listings marketplace operating as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core product is the Property Search Platform enabling access to over 2.1 million active listings across 102 countries in Residential, Commercial, Vacation, and Land categories. The platform is complemented by Post Your Listing and PREMIUM Listings Service for individual property advertising, GLS Memberships for bulk upload subscribers, and API Listings Data Licensing for programmatic data access. Additional services include Private Label Marketplaces for white-label deployment, Association Partnerships, Local Search Sponsorships, and For Sale By Owner Advertising. The network also includes affiliated sub-brands: World Property Exchange, World Property Search, Better MLS, Price Engine, Property Signals, and Sentient Mortgage.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PREMIUM Listings Service: Premium listings advertising service for individual property postings
• Global Listings Service (GLS)
• API Listings Data Licensing
• Private Label Marketplaces
• Local Search Sponsorships

Products and services

• Global Property Listings Marketplace

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Syndication and API AffiliatescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThird-party websites and applications authorized by Global Listings to display property listings and access listing data via API data feeds. Listings are syndicated to these partners' websites simultaneously with publication on the main platform, extending seller reach beyond GlobalListings.com.
• World Property JournalminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThird-party real estate media outlet that sources and publishes property listings from Global Listings, including as noted on individual listing pages (e.g., Windhoek commercial land listing listing sourced from World Property Journal as advertisement).
• Real Estate Associations (Private Label Program)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReal estate associations and MLS organizations that partner with Global Listings to deploy private-label branded property search marketplaces using Global Listings' infrastructure, data licensing, and syndication network.
• Eagle Hills MoroccominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorProperty developer whose listings (Rabat Square and La Marina Morocco projects) appear on the Global Listings platform as third-party seller/agent listings, representing a developer using the platform to market projects internationally.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• CoStar Group: Largest commercial real estate information and listings platform globally. Comparable as a higher-end commercial listings and market intelligence platform (Price Engine/Property Signals sit in a similar adjacent category).
• Mitula / Trovit: Vertical search engines aggregating real estate listings (and other verticals) globally. Comparable as listing aggregators that distribute property data through search; broader in scope than Global Listings but overlapping on the aggregation/syndication angle.

Direct peers

• Realtor.com: Operated by Move (News Corp) with NAR backing; one of the most established U.S. residential listings portals. Comparable in that it aggregates MLS-sourced residential listings for buyers and offers listing/advertising products to agents and sellers.
• Idealista: Leading property listings platform in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Directly comparable as a multi-region (Southern Europe) property listings marketplace with subscription pricing for agents and a consumer search portal.
• Auction.com: Largest online U.S. real estate auction marketplace. Directly comparable for Global Listings' auction transaction type and online auction marketplace model for residential and commercial properties.
• Property Finder: Leading property portal in the Middle East/North Africa. Comparable as a regional listings marketplace with subscription-based agent packages, premium listings, and listing syndication across multiple MENA geographies.
• Rightmove: Dominant UK property listings portal with international reach. Comparable as a property listings marketplace selling listing upgrades, memberships, and advertising to agents and developers — the same GTM motion Global Listings pursues at a global level.
• LoopNet: Largest global commercial property listings marketplace (CoStar Group). Comparable as a commercial real estate listings platform monetized through premium listings and subscriptions to brokers/investors.
• Zoopla: Major UK property listings portal offering agent advertising and home search. Closely aligned in product/GTM: a listing marketplace monetized through agent subscriptions, premium upgrades, and consumer-facing property search.
• Zillow: The largest U.S. residential property listings marketplace. Directly comparable as a multi-category property search platform with listing syndication, agent tools, and global expansion ambitions competing for the same seller/buyer audiences.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/1GlobalListings
• Facebookfacebook.com/GlobalListingsSearch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/globallistings

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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