Homebuying has come a long way. Thirty years ago, there were no online portals. You had to rely on a realtor to find you a property and MLS was highly guarded. They would print out a list for you so that you could travel around with them and look at houses.
Disruption by Redfin, Zillow and others brought the MLS online. While that was a big step forward, the way a home buyer has to search through houses to find their perfect home is property-centric. No longer. Now, two startups in the US are trying to change that. AvocaBleu and Scoot have taken a completely different approach. Instead of being property-centric, they are buyer-centric. They focus on buyer preferences and based on those preferences, they use AI to search for the homes for those buyers. It’s a much better method and saves time for the prospective buyers. It is also catching on. Scoot not only has users in the US, but also in Europe.
AvocaBleu’s founder Hossein Parsa lives in the Bay Area and his co-founder Ehsan Mohammadi is in Calgary. The brother duo are experts in GIS and geospatial programming. Using this background, they created AvocaBleu. Scoot’s founder, Whitney Rich, now resides in Austin, but spent a majority of her real estate career as a realtor in LA. Using her experience with homebuyers, she created Scoot. Both are valued members of the US Proptech Council. Find out more – www.proptechcouncil.com
