Mehmet Erkek
Mehmet Erkek, Co-Founder and CEO of Turkey's Zingat.com, a real estate information and marketing platform bringing together property professionals and consumers, sat down with us for a brief interview at the Property Portal Watch Bangkok 2018 conference.
Among the questions posed to Erkek, we asked what new or innovative products, methods or processes is Zingat currently implementing. Ekek stated that innovative products are exactly why Zingat exists.
Ekek said that when the property portal was conceived three years ago, there were already three or four property portals in Turkey, and although some proposed that Zingat was going against established giants, Erkek was confident that his new company's strength was going to be data science.
The new company used heavily data, life scores, home evaluations etc., all products which Ekek says were very much depreciated by the real estate agents as well as consumers, but which strongly differentiated the company from its competitors, consequently placing Zingat.com in the number 2 spot among other portals in Turkey.
Zingat was launched in 2015 with the cooperation of REIDIN and Doğuş Group. The platform brings together real estate professionals and individuals together using the power of data and information. Zingat's mission is to create a comprehensive reference point for all individuals investing in the real estate sector, selling or renting a house, and for institutions that are professionally interested in the real estate sector in Turkey.
Watch the entire interview below.
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