Realist

What Realist does

Realist is a Paris-based, founder-led private company founded in 2004 by data scientist Benoît Galy that builds consumer-facing real estate portals. The company operates two distinct brands. Green-Acres.com is the international real estate portal serving cross-border property buyers in Europe, with 400,000 listings translated into 23 languages across 14 countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece are highlighted), generating 25 million page views and 5 million visits per month. Vizzit.net is a separate AI-powered generalist real estate search engine with the stated ambition of becoming 'the Google of real estate.'

The combined platform targets two primary user segments: European buyers seeking international properties (65% of Green-Acres' audience is non-domestic) and French buyers seeking homes in desirable domestic regions. The company supports a horizontal, direct-to-consumer go-to-market with a small team of approximately 30 people based in Paris 14ème, distributing exclusively through its own web portals rather than third-party channels.

Realist monetizes primarily through marketplace commissions or transaction-related fees tied to property sales facilitated on Green-Acres; Vizzit.net's monetization model is not detailed in available sources. Realist has no disclosed institutional funding, parent company, or M&A activity, and Coldwell Banker is the only named enterprise partner visible. The company reported 30% revenue growth in 2019 and was actively publishing press content as of December 2019.

Name

Realist

Legal name

Realist

Website

https://realist.webflow.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Realist, founded in 2004 by data scientist Benoît Galy in Paris, operates Green-Acres.com, an international real estate marketplace with 400,000 listings across 14 countries in 23 languages, and Vizzit.net, an AI-powered property search engine targeting European buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Real Estate Marketplace

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (53121)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Real Estate (6500)

akta.pro primary industry

Vertical/Specialty Search (e.g., jobs, real estate, travel, products) (BPAMAAAD)

Keywords

• Real estate portals
• International property listings
• AI property search
• Multilingual real estate
• Online property marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Real Estate Marketplace Commission: Green-Acres.com operates as an international real estate portal with 400,000 property listings, generating revenue through transaction fees or commissions on property sales facilitated through the platform

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Realist develops and operates two consumer-facing online real estate portals. Green-Acres.com is an international real estate marketplace offering 400,000 property listings translated into 22 languages across 50 countries. Vizzit.net is an AI-powered generalist real estate search portal that uses artificial intelligence to simplify property discovery, with the stated ambition to become the Google of real estate.

Product overview

Realist develops two distinct brands: Green-Acres.com, the international real estate portal established in 2004 and now Europe's leading property platform with 400,000 listings across 50 countries in 22 languages; and Vizzit.net, a generalist portal using AI to simplify property search with the goal of being 'the Google of real estate.' Both products share a mission to make property search more intuitive and are operated by a team of 30 people based in Paris.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Green-Acres.com: Leading international real estate portal in Europe with 400,000 houses for sale in 22+ languages across 50 countries. Audience is 65% international with 25 million page views and 5 million visits per month.
• Vizzit.net

Products and services

• Green-Acres.com International real estate marketplace portal offering 400,000 properties for sale in 22 languages across 50 countries. Targets European property buyers seeking international properties and French buyers searching for homes abroad or in domestic pleasant-living regions. Generates revenue via marketplace commissions on transactions and serves 25 million page views with 5 million monthly visits, 65% of which come from abroad.
• Vizzit.net AI-powered generalist real estate search portal that uses artificial intelligence to simplify property discovery. Marketed with the ambition to become the Google of real estate.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% revenue growth in 2019
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Idealista: Europe's largest international/cross-border real estate portal (Iberia-focused), operating a marketplace model connecting buyers with hundreds of thousands of listings. Closest functional analog to Green-Acres in international European real estate search.
• SeLoger: France's leading domestic real estate portal (owned by AVIV Group), listing properties for sale and rent and monetizing via agent leads and subscriptions. Directly comparable to Realist on product (vertical real estate search) and home market (France).
• Leboncoin: France's largest horizontal classifieds marketplace with a major real estate vertical, serving buyers, sellers, and agents across all property types. Comparable to Green-Acres as a high-traffic French real estate discovery and lead-generation platform.

Broad incumbents

• ImmoScout24: Germany's dominant real estate portal and a broad European incumbent, operating multiple country brands (ImmoScout24.at, .ch, .it). Comparable as a scaled, multi-country real estate listing/search destination, though larger and more country-specialized than Realist.
• Rightmove: The UK's leading real estate portal and one of Europe's largest property platforms by traffic and listings. Comparable to Green-Acres as a high-traffic real estate search destination, but operating as a much larger, UK-focused incumbent.
• Zillow: US-based global real estate platform combining listing search with AI-powered tools (Zestimate, Zillow Premier Agent). Comparable to Vizzit.net's ambition of becoming the "Google of real estate" via AI-driven property discovery.
• Zoopla: Major UK real estate portal offering property search, valuation estimates, and agent lead generation. Comparable to Green-Acres as a vertically specialized property search and discovery platform monetizing agent demand.

Emerging players

• PropertyFinder / Bayut: Middle East-focused international property portal serving cross-border buyers across MENA. Comparable to Green-Acres as a high-growth international/cross-border listing platform with a similar lead-generation and partner-referral model.

Regional players

• Immoweb: Belgium's leading real estate portal, listing properties for sale and rent with a similar vertical search experience to Green-Acres. Comparable as a country-level European real estate portal, though primarily regional.
• Homegate: Switzerland's leading real estate portal for rentals and sales, part of the same regional European real estate portal landscape as Green-Acres. Comparable as a high-traffic vertical property search platform in an adjacent European market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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

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