Matthew Page is Commercial Director at Ringier South Africa, a tech hub creating and distributing top-level software solutions to classifieds marketplaces worldwide. In this week's episode, Matt joins Simon Baker and Harvey Hancock to discuss what Ringier is working on, trends across different markets and economies, and what we can learn from Africa. 0:00 intros 3:00 Matthew and Ringier 8:00 Ringier's appearance in Barcelona 9:55 What are the use cases for Ringier tech? 13:00 "It's what you send, not how you send it" 15:00 Tech that does the 'donkey work' 20:00 Implementation and methodology 23:45 Pricing 26:07 Global trends in classifieds 29:21 Profitability challenges of being bloated 31:00 Agent Monetization Models from Ringier's perspective 35:00 Market scraping for sales-focused data analysis 38:15 Scraping without tech expertise 41:01 Bonus Conversation - Business lessons from Africa 45:15 Mobile first 48:10 AI prefers simplicity 49:25 outros

Simon Baker and Harvey Hancock get together to discuss the biggest stories from the past month.

0:00 intros0:59 Patient CoStar

6:15 Underperforming Domain

10:15 Dominant Hemnet

14:32 Sellable Homely?

16:57 Public Dubizzle Group?

20:20 Noncompliant FangDD

24:02 Private PropertyGuru

29:12 Disruptive AI

30:22 upcoming events, content and outros

In a first for the PPW Podcast, Simon and I take the back seat and let artificial intelligence take the lead (really). After a short introduction to set the context, this episode hands over to two non-existent podcasters to discuss all things real estate and conference takeways - all taken from Simon's notes from the on-stage presentations throughout the conference. A stroke of genius, or scary? You decide!