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Commonfloor

Overview

Commonfloor is an Indian real estate portal founded in 2007. The platform aggregates listings for residential and commercial properties, including apartments, independent houses, plots, and rental accommodation, and offers tools for property search, society management, and project discovery across major Indian cities.

Key facts

Type Online real estate portal
Industry Real estate, Internet
Founded 2007
Country of origin India
Headquarters Bengaluru, Karnataka
Services Property listings, project search, rental search, society management

Background

Commonfloor was launched as an internet-based service intended to address fragmentation in the Indian housing market, where buyers, tenants, owners, brokers, and developers historically depended on offline channels. The portal combined classified-style listings with neighbourhood and project information, allowing users to compare apartments and housing societies in addition to individual units.

Alongside its consumer marketplace, the company developed an apartment management product aimed at residents' welfare associations and housing societies. The tool offered features for maintenance billing, visitor tracking, notices, and community communication, and was used by societies in several metropolitan areas.

History

  • 2007: Commonfloor is founded as an Indian real estate portal.
  • Late 2000s–early 2010s: The portal expands its city coverage and adds tools for housing society management.
  • 2010s: Commonfloor raises venture funding from investors active in the Indian internet sector and broadens its product range to include rentals, new projects, and resale listings.
  • 2016: Commonfloor is acquired by Quikr, an Indian online classifieds company, in a transaction that consolidated their respective real estate offerings.

Products and services

  • Property search: Listings for buying and renting apartments, villas, plots, and commercial spaces, searchable by city, locality, project, budget, and configuration.
  • New projects: Information on under-construction and newly launched residential projects from developers, including floor plans and amenities.
  • Society management: A web and mobile application for residents' welfare associations to manage operations, communications, and accounting.
  • Tools and content: Property valuation aids, locality guides, and editorial content related to the Indian housing market.

Significance

Commonfloor is one of the early Indian online real estate ventures that helped move property discovery from print classifieds and broker networks to internet platforms. Its combination of marketplace listings with apartment community software placed it within a small group of Indian proptech firms that targeted both transactions and post-purchase residential life. The 2016 acquisition by Quikr was among the notable consolidation events in the Indian online real estate segment during that period.

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