SINGAPORE, 17 February 2015 - PropertyGuru, Asia's leading online property group, and EasyHomeFix.com, a first-in-the-market online platform for home repairs, recently announced the signing of a joint partnership.
While property seekers in Singapore take an average of seven months from the start of their property search to closing the transaction, they simultaneously search for home repair and renovation service providers. This collaboration will provide them convenience and accessibility to a range of high quality services in home maintenance and renovation. The agreement will connect over 10 million property buyers across South East Asia starting with Singapore on PropertyGuru.com.sg, with hundreds of qualified service providers such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, handyman, locksmith, movers, pest controllers, air-con service companies and much more.
"It is PropertyGuru's brand philosophy to empower property seekers and home owners to make better property decisions, regardless of whether it is at the initial property search process or during the home ownership phase. By working together with EasyHomeFix.com, we will be able to provide more value to these consumers, while at the same time, create opportunities for home repair service providers in Singapore to connect with potential clients, and grow their businesses even more rapidly," mentions Steve Melhuish, CEO of PropertyGuru Group.
The partnership comes at a time when the home repair and maintenance market in Asia amounts to $26 billion, and expected to grow at 9 percent CAGR. In Singapore alone, with 90 percent of Singaporeans owning at least one property and an existing supply of 1.2 million homes in the market, it makes Singapore's home repair and maintenance market worth almost $1 billion.
"Repairs and house maintenance can be a problem area for many home owners. The issue is often three-fold; whether the service provider is available to do the repairs at the time you need, his quality of service and reliability. EasyHomeFix.com provides a single online solution to day-to-day house repair problems, in an age where property owners are going online to conduct their searches," explains Neha Chopra, founder of EasyHomeFix.com.
For consumers and property agents, EasyHomeFix makes the painful home repair and maintenance jobs a breeze. On www.easyhomefix.com, you can select the type of service you want, enter your preferred time and date, and submit your request instantaneously. Within minutes, your job request is shared with a large pool of qualified & experienced service providers who will provide you with a non-obligatory quote after understanding your job. It's that simple. "We want to make home repairs as simple as taxi-booking," says Neha. "Partnership with PropertyGuru will allow the majority of homeowners in Singapore an access to our pool of high quality home service providers - with minimum hassle," she adds.
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For further information or to arrange an interview contact:
EasyHomeFix.com - Neha Chopra at +65 93269075 or neha@easyhomefix.com
PropertyGuru Group - Esther Toh at +65 62385871 or esther@propertyguru.com.sg
About EasyHomeFix.com
Founded by Neha and Arjun Chopra, EasyHomeFix.com was developed around the vision of making home repairs easier for home owners. Through EasyHomeFix.com, homeowners can manage their home repairs anytime, anywhere, from any device, and is a single touch point for any house repair or service. Currently focused on the Singapore market, EasyHomeFix.com plans to enrich the site by adding more features and categories. With more than 9% users signing organically from other markets such as Malaysia, US, and India, the expansion plan includes Malaysia by Q3 2015 and India, starting with Bangalore and Gurgaon, in Q1 2016.
About PropertyGuru
PropertyGuru Group is Asia's leading online property portal group used by more than 10 million property buyers, viewing over 90 million property pages and generating over 400,000 enquiries for real estate developer and agent advertisers - every month - across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. The Group has developed and launched 15 mobile applications in four countries and three languages. At the end of 2014, the Group recorded almost 2 million downloaded mobile apps, resulting in a slew of three MOBEX awards sweep. Headquartered in Singapore, PropertyGuru was founded in 2006 by two entrepreneurs with a vision to simplify the property search process and help buyers, sellers and investors make better property decisions faster. Taking advantage of Asia's growing affluence, property demand and online explosion, the company is market leader in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia, receiving its first VC investment funding in 2008 and secured approximately $60m investment in 2012 from Deutsche Telekom, South East Asia's largest digital investment to date. PropertyGuru was also the first to integrate its website with social media, first to launch Singapore's only dedicated property newspaper - read by more than 100,000 readers island-wide every month - and it has also developed a property events platform, with approximately 30 shows held annually across four countries, addressing 30,000 potential property buyers on the ground.