wg-suche.de

Name

wg-suche.de

Legal name

Immobilien Scout GmbH

Website

https://wg-suche.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

wg-suche.de is a Berlin-based, private online portal founded in 2012 that helps users in Germany find shared rooms, flats, and student apartments through a listings marketplace.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Core offering

wg-suche.de is an online portal where users can search for and rent shared rooms (WGs), flats, and student apartments. The legal entity operating it, Immobilien Scout GmbH, is the same entity behind ImmobilienScout24, and the WG listings experience is integrated with the ImmobilienScout24 platform (wg-zimmer page).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WG-Zimmer (shared room) listings
• Flat and student apartment rental listings

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Immowelt: Major German real estate portal with a broad rental and purchase marketplace including shared housing listings. Overlaps with wg-suche.de on the rental/WG segment but as part of a wider property category.
• Kleinanzeigen (eBay Kleinanzeigen): Germany's largest general classifieds platform with a substantial subcategory for shared apartments and rooms. Indirect competitor that captures demand through breadth rather than vertical specialization.
• ImmobilienScout24: Germany's largest real estate marketplace covering rentals, purchases, and commercial properties, with a dedicated WG-zimmer section. Broader incumbent competitor that overlaps with wg-suche.de on shared accommodation but operates across the full real estate vertical.

Emerging players

• HousingAnywhere: European marketplace for student and young professional housing rentals, allowing landlords to advertise rooms/apartments to international tenants. Comparable in student housing vertical but with a stronger international/English-speaking focus than wg-suche.de.
• Spotahome: Online rental marketplace focused on mid- to long-term bookings for students and professionals across European cities. Comparable digital-first rental marketplace model, though with verified listings and broader geographic scope.

Direct peers

• WG-Gesucht: Germany's leading dedicated platform for shared apartments (WGs), student housing, and flat-sharing. The most direct competitor to wg-suche.de given identical target audience (WG seekers), category (shared housing listings), and business model (classifieds marketplace).
• WG-Zimmer.info: Smaller dedicated portal for finding WG/shared rooms and student apartments in Germany. Direct niche competitor with the same target audience and listing-based business model as wg-suche.de.
• Studenten-WG: Smaller German platform dedicated to student shared housing (Wohngemeinschaften). Direct niche competitor in the student WG segment, similar in scale and focus to wg-suche.de.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/wg_suche

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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