About Us
 
iProperty.com formerly RealAcres.com, venture of Horizon InfoVentures Pvt. Ltd., an IPGA Limited invested Company, Australia Stock Exchange-listed Company www.ipgalimited.com (ASX: IPP).

iProperty.com India is India's leading online real estate portal that caters to real estate industry with more than 300,000 active fresh property listings. iProperty.com India formerly RealAcres.com is India's First Online realestate portal now with the brand now having global presence in more than 6 countries and expanding. Launched in October 2005, the brand has bagged CNBC Asia Pacific Property Awards in the 'Best Property Portal', Stieve Award for Best Property Website, Red Herring Asia Award for top Pvt Companies in Asia.

Working with India's top Builders and premium Brokers iProperty.com India has the largest and strongest real estate community platform "iConnect" with more than 350,000 Subscribers sharing and discussing realestate trends and issues. ValueMeâ„¢ an ultimate realtime property valuation estimator is the first and only tool to evaluate property, ValueMeâ„¢ is formulated with proprietary algorithm and reaches the maximum accuracy with the current trend. iProperty.com's networked team track and interpret the market forces and trends that affect real estate business to provide the best-informed solutions for real estate professionals such as developers, builders, financial institutions etc., with the major thrust in residential sector. It provides financial and real estate news to those who evaluate, invest-in and manage real estate industry.

iProperty.com has a strong media presence in Asia and supports and organizes International events and conferences.


iProperty.com Network of Websites:

 

Investors
 
IPGA Limited (www.ipgalimited.com)

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, IPGA Limited (ASX:IPP) owns Asia's No. 1 network of property websites under the iProperty.com umbrella brand (www.iproperty.com). The Company is focused on developing and operating Internet-based real estate portals with other complementary offerings in Asian markets. It currently operates consumer and business online property portals in the markets of Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Philippines. With further expansion planned, IPGA is continuously working to capitalise on its market-leading positions and the rapidly growing online property advertising market throughout the region. Recently, the Group made history by winning the highly prestigious CNBC Asia Pacific Property Awards in the 'Best Property Portal' category for 4 of our websites Malaysia (www.iproperty.com.my), Singapore (www.iproperty.com.sg), Hong Kong (www.gohome.com.hk) and Philippines (www.iproperty.com.ph).

 

Management
 

Murli Ramkrishnan

Chairman & Managing Director - Horizon InfoVentures Pvt Ltd

Murli, founder of Horizon InfoVenutures Pvt Ltd is responsible for the company’s corporate strategy and implementation of the technology to leverage all facets of the business. Murli holds a Bachelor degree Engineering in honours and specialized in Information Technology, conceptualized and structured the backbone of the Company’s business model and continues to direct its growth strategies. Murli in 28, exhaustively and aggressivly researched the industry and each of its segments in order to assemble the most effective management team to develop, expand and launch his vision. One of his previous experiences included India’s leading matrimony portal, BharatMatrimony.com withhands on start up experience with ClickJobs.com. His success in creating profitable concepts stems from a combination of effective management skills, synergistic strategic alliances, operational efficiency, quality control and work ethic.

Murli also founded Studio HIGH, a full service digital agency in India which bagged excellence award in innovation and is one of the leading Agency in the country.
He was honored by Czech Republic Government for excellence in creative and was the finalist in Business World’s “Young Entrepreneur 2010”. Murli played a key role in bagging the “RED Herring Asia Award” at Hongkong, where the company was awarded as the best Pvt Company among 16 countries in 2007. Company has won the prestigious “CNBC Asia Pacific Property Award” at Singapore in year 2009. Murli was recently honored as the “Young Entrepreneur India Award 2011” at WatAwards - India’s Digital Stalwarts.

 

 

Smita Thorat

Co-Founder & Director - Horizon InfoVentures Pvt. Ltd.

Ms. Smita Thorat, Co-Founder and Director of iProperty.com India formerly RealAcres.com, holds a Bachelors Degree in Architecture and has been responsible for execution of the strategy, business plan, managing growth, revenue generating operations and fund raising for the company. Her architectural work experience encompasses a broad range of projects within residential, second homes and urban design settings. With her strong domain knowledge, experience of multi-Industry convergence and handling turnkey projects she co-founded RealAcres.com in October 2005. She has ably undertaken the additional responsibility to review activity reports, financial statements of the company, to determine progress and update the status periodically in attaining objectives and fine tuning them according to the current business environment. She has also been able to develop strong and durable partnerships & alliances with various esteemed real estate associations.


Smita promotes the company at various real estate conferences and events, print media, television etc. and has been regularly quoted in large media such as Times of India, Live Mint, Indian Express, Outlook, Business World, etc. for real estate industry insights.

Credentials:

•"Young Achiever of the Year Award 2011" by CMO Asia for Excellence in Branding & Marketing at Singapore from 25 countries.

• Finalist for "Best Young Entrepreneur" by the "Stevie Awards for Women in Business 2011" at New York, USA

• Finalist for Business World's "Young Entrepreneur 2010" at Mumbai

 

 

Shaun Di Gregorio

Director - Horizon InfoVentures Pvt Ltd

As the Chief Executive Officer of IPGA Limited, Shaun is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Company. Prior to joining iProperty.com, Shaun was the head of the Australian operations of the REA Group (2005-2008) and the General Manager of the REA Group’s international businesses (2008-2009). Shaun holds a Masters of Business Administration from Australian Graduate School of Management and Bachelor of Business with a major in Marketing from Monash University.

 

 

Patrick Grove

Former Chairman - Horizon InfoVentures Pvt Ltd

Patrick Grove is a co-founder of IPGA Limited. Patrick is also the Group CEO, Executive Chairman and major shareholder of the Catcha Media Group, one of South East Asia's most dynamic media companies, incorporating publishing, online and event businesses, including Malaysia's largest English language magazine publisher. Catcha Media Group is also the major shareholder of IPGA Limited. Prior to his founding of the Catcha Media Group, Patrick worked in Corporate Finance at Arthur Andersen. His specific areas of experience and expertise include mergers and acquisitions and extraction of investment value in high growth, media, new media and technology environments. Over the past decade, Patrick has built a number of significant media and internet businesses across Asia and has been independently recognised with numerous international awards, including as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (2001), a New Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum (2003) and as the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2004). Patrick received his undergraduate degree in Commerce, majoring in Finance from the University of Sydney and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Going forward, Patrick's focus will be on the formulation of IPGA Limited's strategy and business plan, and on the sourcing of merger and acquisition opportunities for the Company.

 

 

Kensuke Tsurumaru

Former Director - Horizon InfoVentures Pvt. Ltd.

Prior to joining IPGA, Ken was both a founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Catcha Media Group, responsible for the operations of the business across four countries, including budget management and business plan implementation. Ken has also worked in Tokyo, Japan, as a Senior Project Manager at ICM Marketing, a leading business to business event management company. Ken has a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Marketing.

 


 

Vikram Thakre

Shareholder - Horizon InfoVentures Pvt. Ltd.

Vikram holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering specialized in Information Technology. Vikram, Regional Head - Pune, drives the company's sales strategies in both media as well as events in Pune. Vikram manages the relationship between sales and other company functions and has pioneered in real estate marketing techniques.

An avid cricket enthusiast, Vikram likes to spend most of the time strategizing business solutions.

 
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