{"id":1551,"date":"2018-08-20T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/bayut-raises-50-million-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:25:34","slug":"bayut-raises-50-million-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/bayut-raises-50-million-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Portal Bayut.com&#8217;s EMPG Raises $50 Million Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bayut.com\u2019s parent company EMPG raises $50 million as part of a&nbsp;larger investment round<\/h2>\n<p>Emerging&nbsp;Markets Property Group (EMPG), the parent company&nbsp;of&nbsp;vastly successful property portals in the MENA and South Asia regions, has announced that it has wrapped up a first close of $50 million as part of&nbsp;a&nbsp;substantially larger&nbsp;investment&nbsp;round.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Bayut.com in the UAE, EMPG owns and operates&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zameen.com<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;Pakistan,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bproperty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bproperty.com<\/a>&nbsp;in Bangladesh, and recently announced its acquisition of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mubawab.ma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mubawab<\/a>&nbsp;in Morocco.&nbsp;The Pakistan, Bangladesh and Morocco portals&nbsp;are clear leaders in their respective markets, and&nbsp;Bayut.com, one of the top portals in the UAE with a lead in some geographies, is well on its way to achieving <a href=\"execute-your-business-vision\/\">clear leadership<\/a> by December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Haider Ali Khan, the CEO of&nbsp;Bayut.com, said $25 million of these funds would be deployed in the Emirates with a focus on further consolidation. \u201cThe&nbsp;remaining&nbsp;funds will&nbsp;be&nbsp;used to&nbsp;further&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;EMPG\u2019s leading&nbsp;position in&nbsp;its other&nbsp;markets,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Together, these portals generate over 2 million leads for their clients every single month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEMPG\u2019s growth has been comprehensive across all metrics, on the back of some of the world\u2019s most advanced digital real estate platforms developed by&nbsp;our&nbsp;R&amp;D teams,\u201d said Group CEO Imran Ali Khan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a compounded annual revenue growth rate of over&nbsp;100% over the last five years,&nbsp;more than&nbsp;15,000 real estate&nbsp;agencies,&nbsp;and 8 million-plus monthly visits across our portals, EMPG is ideally positioned for regional dominance,\u201d&nbsp;he added.<\/p>\n<p>EMPG&nbsp;has raised a total of $60 million in its four previous rounds, and the current round is its largest yet, bringing up the grand total to $110 million.&nbsp;The Group has a presence in&nbsp;40&nbsp;cities&nbsp;across&nbsp;the UAE,&nbsp;Pakistan, Bangladesh,&nbsp;Morocco, Spain and Romania&nbsp;with over 1,500 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayut.com\u2019s parent company EMPG raises $50 million as part of a&nbsp;larger investment round Emerging&nbsp;Markets Property Group (EMPG), the parent company&nbsp;of&nbsp;vastly successful property portals in the MENA and South Asia regions, has announced that it has wrapped up a first close of $50 million as part of&nbsp;a&nbsp;substantially larger&nbsp;investment&nbsp;round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Real Estate Portal Bayut.com&#039;s EMPG Raises $50 Million Funding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Haider Ali Khan, the CEO of\u00a0Bayut.com, said $25 million of these funds would be deployed in the Emirates with a focus on further consolidation. 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