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Housing.Com had earlier this year merged itself with the News Corp-backed PropTiger.Com.

Realty portal Housing.Com, which has recently merged with PropTiger.Com, has re-entered into rent business and targets to list 2 lakh homes in the next three months.

Realty portal Housing.Com today appointed Amit Masaldan as national sales head to expand its senior leadership team.

Online real estate advisor PropTiger today said it has acqui-hired Mumbai-based startup PropRates, a move that will help the News Corp-backed realty portal to add advanced data collation tool to its offering.

Realty portal Magicbricks.Com has acquired property analysis platform Properji.Com for an undisclosed amount and plans to come up with reports for more than 10,000 projects in six metros that would help prospective buyers in taking right decision

Japan's SoftBank has made a fresh investment of Rs 100 crore in Housing.com to help the realty portal consolidate its position in the heavily contested online property segment.

Realty portal Housing.Com on Wednesday signed an agreement with the realtors' apex body CREDAI to set up an online platform that would help developers to engage with customers effectively.

In November last year, News Corp acquired a 25 per cent stake in Singapore-based Elara Technologies Pte Ltd which owns PropTiger.Com.

"Yadav who is also the co-founder of the company, will no longer be an employee of Housing and be associated with the company in any manner, going forward," it added.