Uber in real estate?

Question

Startups

Hello!
Please kick the idea (and perhaps someone can add something), codenamed "Uber in the real estate rental industry."
This idea, like all others, arose from the search for a solution to one's own problems, regret that in other areas it is, but in the one in which you need it - no!
So, the essence of the problem: there are several premises that need to be rented out, in addition, in a couple of days an apartment is also vacated, and you also need to look for a tenant!
"Contact a real estate agency (AN)" - many will tell me, but, firstly, with regard to residential real estate - the commission, which in different regions reaches 100%, or even higher from rent, currently scares away many potential tenants, and everyone tries to rent a house through acquaintances/acquaintances/acquaintances (very often, as a result, again falling for a realtor :) ), what about commercial real estate, I will not talk about the central regions, but, in our country (Kemerovo region and many neighboring ) NA is always ready to include an object in its database, but they are not willing to work to find a tenant / buyer - there is a CAM, well, that's good, this is also evidenced by the huge number of "RENT" banners and so on most objects in cities.
Most of the transactions (on commercial real estate) are carried out, as they say, through acquaintances, or direct calls to potential customers (who are usually determined by the owner of the object), but if there are not so many acquaintances, and there is not much time for calling, what to do ? Rely on Avito and other sites / newspapers, etc.?
Let's get to the heart of the idea!
Make a system similar to the one that taxis now use (in particular, Uber, it’s simple, too many people hear it), i.e., the owner needs to rent / sell a property (commercial / residential), he adds the object to the database and this information is distributed among all registered participants in the system who want to earn money and they are already all dealing with this issue.
On the boards there are often objects from AN, unrealistic prices, and so on. (how to avoid this in the system - the issue is being worked out).
Why do people who want to make money on real estate use this system - convenience, up-to-date information and, there is another selfish question - we focus on working with acquaintances (i.e. the owner expands coverage at the expense of system users), and take a percentage from acquaintances as it is not right (of course, not for everyone), the system will help to hide this matter :) !
Methods of monetization:
- who places the object pays for placement
- the one who uses the system pays for providing information
- commission from the transaction
All methods are raw, and are presented here as options!
Perhaps there is something similar, but maybe I just didn’t describe some key points, or I just couldn’t find an analogue, in the form in which I imagine it!
Question:
Is it necessary?
- what did not take into account?
- what to add?
I will be glad to justified criticism / advice / questions / answers!

Answer 1

I feel, novice hipster, you are still at the initial stage of startup. Soon you will realize that it is "fu, corny, obscene" to call your "project" the phrase "uber in the field ....". And in general, of course, stop torturing yourself, you are a useless businessman.
https://thelocals.ru
UPD: you are a professional business coach! Forgive me for not going to your profile right away :) It’s a shame, of course, to offer to analyze the market and not be able to conduct it for myself)

Answer 2

airbnb.com - same idea?

Answer 3

Uber’s analogue is still airbnb, and you don’t have a single original idea for projects like your car on the Internet, which means crushing only a multi-million dollar marketing budget

Answer 4

The whole point is that agents begin to encroach on such organizations en masse and pretend to be the owners. Their bans by phone and other methods are not very helpful because they are cunning, and most importantly, because without them the site becomes empty. After all, the landlord does not often pay the agent, he is paid by the one who rents and the agent also walks to show the apartment, the owner lies lazily on the couch. As for housing for a day, etc. where there are no agents, booking, airbnb have already taken almost everything.

Answer 5

In addition, the realtor takes on such a function as showing the client. In your case, this burden will fall on the dealer.

Answer 6

Do you mean something like that?
https://vc.ru/n/rentberry-money

Answer 7

There was a similar idea about 5 years ago, there was an idea how to make it so that only owners posted ads, but no one will give you the right to do this, unless you are Putin. A very large speculative structure will break down.
But if you agree with Putin, then I will share the idea, for the N-th sum of course.

Answer 8

What does cian.ru not like?

Answer 9

abribook.com

Answer 10

In fact, the idea is good - how to deprive the intermediary between sellers or landlords and actually people who want to buy or rent an apartment, but only realtors immediately come running and start interfering with real estate companies.
Here, for example, they made a search engine among all real estate ads - https://flatfy.com/ - and that, anyway, 90% of ads are from realtors.
That is, how can you do something cool in this area, but you need to take into account that real estate is a very conservative area and most likely you will not be able to do something like airbnb in Russia.

Answer 11

Here the Russian guys tried https://udomi.ru/

Answer 12

As you noticed, the main problem is unrealistic ads from realtors, scammers, etc. And the only way to get rid of them at the moment is manual moderation, and this is a lot of work. There are many projects in this area. Some, having achieved popularity, begin to monetize with terrible force, and forget about the quality that brought the initial popularity. Some cannot gain due popularity due to lack of diligence, etc. Someone who has developed a site with a primitive parser from bulletin boards thinks that's it: I made Uber! where are the investment billions???
In general, what am I all this for: Here is our website https://hozya.ru/site for rental housing from the owners. We call all ads on the site and we do not have realtors, agents, scammers. In some cities the site is paid, in some it is free. There is a distribution of messages in VK with suitable options. In general, on the topic, but as an advertisement)))