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REA Group has agreed to sell its European businesses for $189.7 million to the UK's Oakley Capital Private Equity.
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The digital real estate advertising company, which owns Australia's realestate.com.au website, will sell atHome Group S.a r.l. and REA Italia S.r.l. which operate in Luxembourg, France, Germany and Italy.
REA Group said the sale will yield a profit of $168 million.
The announcement said it will allow the company to sharpen its focus in key growth markets in Australia, Asia and North America.
Oakley Capital has digital interests and a geographic focus in Italy, including Facile.it, a Milan-based price comparison website.
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REA quitting European property portals

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The independent real estate portal Jagonal is for sale after the office leasing website was placed in administration.
Administrators from McGrath Nicol were appointed to Jagonal on November 7 after investors in the three-year-old start-up not to inject more cash for the struggling website.
Final bids for the business close today.
"We've spoken with the administrators and put our hands in the ring for some of the assets," Simon Rose, chief executive of CommercialPropertyGuide.com.au, told the Australian Financial Review.
Jagonal was set up by REA Group alumni Serge Kotlyarov, Andrew Brown and Max Sim in September 2013.
It was backed by a group of investors including founding shareholder Godfrey Franz, a director of Sydney-based Matrix Property Group.
The portal offers leased space across 4500 office buildings and includes a patented 3D office space search. 
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Jagonal for sale after office leasing website goes into administration

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Revalu8, a Queensland startup that calls itself the “Uber of real estate”, has sunk into liquidation less than a year after launch.
Creditors decided to wind up the Queensland startup and appoint a liquidator at a meeting last week, with a software company that was developing its online platform owed more than $486,000 out of total debts of $687,938, according to the Business Insider.
The company also owes $13,000 to Broadband Solutions and $11,000 to the Australian Taxation Office. In addition,  OLJ Capital was listed in the creditors meeting as being $120,000 out of pocket
Revalu8 was launched last June with $1.5 million in seed funding.
Its mission was to connect buyers and vendors of residential real estate and bring transparency to the industry. The site contained comparison tools for potential buyers, as well as promising complete transparency on transactions and negotiations between the buyer and the vendor.
“The accepted practices of advertising and selling real estate in Australia favour the advertiser, agent and then the seller, while the buyer is almost forgotten – despite it being the buyer’s money,” founder and chief executive Chris Bilborough said at the time. 
“ReValu8 will bring a new level of transparency to the industry to empower purchasers – in particular first-home buyers and investors – to be able to make an informed decision… ReValu8 also gives buyers a fair share of fees that would otherwise go towards advertising costs and agent commissions.”
While the Revalu8 website is currently still running, filling in a contact form to “join the revolution” results in an error, according to the Business Insider. The company Twitter account has not been active since August.
The company’s website still says, ‘The Uber of real estate has arrived’ and says the company shares the sales commission when a property is sold.
The notice to place the company in liquidation was resolved on March 20.
There was no comment from liquidator Worrells and Revalu8.
According to CRN, a dispute between the startup’s directors and the software development firm Agile Software Services saw the developer withdraw Revalu8’s access to the programming code.
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RealestateVIEW.com.au has developed a tool to help real estate agents comply with the new underquoting laws introduced on 1st May by Consumer Affairs Victoria.
The tool, named 3Comps, is designed to help real estate agents and prospective buyers gain a realistic value of a home based on three comparable sales in the area.
Enzo Raimondo, chief executive officer, RealestateVIEW.com.au welcomes the legislative change because it will improve transparency.
“Whilst the SOI ensures compliance, 3Comps not only compliments and exceeds this compliance, it does it in a way that is responsive, intuitive and in a language, that will improve the user experience for those searching for property," he said,.
“This tool, which has been released today, allows agents to display three comparable properties dynamically on their listing, while creating a personalised, branded SOI for agents, improving the online user-experience for property seekers, further enhancing the industry’s credibility."
Philip Webb from Philip Webb agency said anything that adds transparency, anything that gives the real estate industry and the profession more integrity, is a good thing.
“We have to keep complying with what is needed and I see this as just an extension of that. I think it will turn out to be a very positive thing,” he said.
As part of the Estate Agents Act 1980, real estate agents in Victoria will soon be required to provide a Statement of Information (SOI) and three comparable property sales to prospective buyers across all residential listings.
For more information on the 3Comps tool, the legislation and how it affects both real estate agents and consumers, please click <a href="https://www.realestateview.com.au/3comps/?utm_source=press&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=3comps" target="_blank">here</a>.
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