Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: discountedflats.com has become the preferred channel over portals, grouping sites, brokers, and conventional channel of buying homes. More and more brokers are tying up with discountedflats.com as their source of business, providing on-ground support. discountedflats.com offers package of grouping, advance searches, on-ground support, corporate culture providing end-to-end personalized services to home buyers at no brokerages. Builders see discountedflats.com as an opportunity, and are more than happy to pass on certain discounts to home buyers as they get bulk bookings.
Pricing
Portals: Standard
Brokers: Standard
Builders: Standard
discountedflats.com: Discounted (Up to 3 lacs savings)
Remark: discountedflats.com is able to provide better prices than any conventional channels, simply because they negotiate the cost by “grouping home buyers”.
Distance Search
Portals: No
Brokers: No
Builders: NA
discountedflats.com: Yes
Remark: discountedflats.com offers unique reverse mapping search: say for e.g. where one can find all projects with 50 lacs budget at less than 3 km from workplace/kids school.
Ownership of Content
Portals: No
Brokers: Limited
Builders: Yes
discountedflats.com: Yes
Remark: On portals, home buyers are not sure if the information is genuine: no one takes the responsibility or guarantee reliability.
Single source for all Projects
Portals: Hardly 400
Brokers: Hardly 40
Builders: Own
discountedflats.com: All 7000 projects
Remark: There was no single source to compare all the residential projects prior to discountedflats.com
On - Ground Support
Portals: No
Brokers: Yes
Builders: Yes
discountedflats.com: Yes
Remark: Unlike DF, no portals are offering on-ground support and no one is going to buy flats worth lacs of rupees on internet.
Brokerage to Home Buyer
Portals: Yes/No