Idealista

www.idealista.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Seed

Idealista is Southern Europe's leading online real estate marketplace, connecting buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants across Spain, Italy and Portugal, with adjacent services in mortgages (idealista/hipotecas), data and analytics, virtual home staging and vacation rentals (Rentalia, AvaiBook). Founded in Madrid in 2000 and profitable since 2005, it is no longer a venture-stage startup but a private-equity-owned scale-up: EQT bought it in 2020 at a €1.3bn valuation, and in 2024 Cinven agreed to acquire a ~70% stake in a deal valuing the company at €2.9bn, with founder Jesús Encinar retaining his stake and continuing to lead it. It operates offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Elche, Milan, Treviso, Como, Ascoli Piceno, Lisbon, Porto and Aveiro.

Founded

2000

Founders

Total funds raised

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SectorsProptech, Real Estate Marketplace, Online Classifieds, Mortgages / Fintech, Data & Analytics, Vacation Rentals Start-up MapProptech & Construction › Real estate marketplaces

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Founders

Bernardo Hernández González

Co-founder (exited 2015; now co-founder of Pensero AI)

Angel · 5 rounds →

Also at Pensero →

César Oteiza Aniz

Co-founder & COO

Fernando Encinar

Co-founder & Head of Research (jefe de estudios)

Jesús Encinar

Co-founder, Chairman & CEO

Global models 5

KE Holdings

China · www.ke.com ↗

China's largest online property platform, linking buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants with agents, with mortgage and other add-on services on top.

~$6BComparable

QuintoAndar

Brazil · www.quintoandar.com.br ↗

Latin America's largest online property marketplace for rentals and sales, which also sells add-on services such as financing and insurance.

~$755MComparable

NoBroker

India · www.nobroker.in ↗

Online property marketplace where owners, buyers and tenants deal directly with each other, with paid services such as home loans, legal help and moving.

~$360MComparable

Property Finder

United Arab Emirates · www.propertyfinder.ae ↗

The Middle East's leading property listings portal, earning money from agents' and developers' listing subscriptions plus data and mortgage services.

~$220MComparable

Housing.com

India · housing.com ↗

Indian property listings portal for buying, selling and renting homes, earning from advertiser listings and mortgage and data services.

~$150MComparable

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Venture Debt · €67.7M

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Notes: Most funded first

Investors 7

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BBK (Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa)

www.kutxabank.es ↗

Seed 2000 Spain

Caixa Catalunya

Seed 2001 Spain

Apax Partners

www.apax.com ↗

Investor United Kingdom

Cinven

www.cinven.com ↗

Investor United Kingdom

Oakley Capital

www.oakleycapital.com ↗

Investor United Kingdom

Funding rounds 3

Date	Round	Amount	Lead
2003-01	Seed	—	Bonsai Venture Capital
2001-01	Seed	—	Lead not disclosed +1 more
2000-01	Seed	—	Lead not disclosed +1 more

News 5

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Published	Article
2026-11-09	Revel raised €120M, Titan OS picked up $46M, data centre fear mongering (Dealflow.es #534) ↗ Dealflow.es 2026-11-09
2026-10-02	Los Idealista sitúa el precio de la vivienda en Madrid en máximos: el centro y el noroeste lideran las subidas ↗ Merca2 2026-10-02
2026-09-14	Dealflow #526: Self-driving taxis in Madrid in Q4 2026. The data centre doubts. idealista launches in France. ↗ Dealflow.es Newsletter 2026-09-14
2026-09-10	La plataforma idealista inicia operaciones en Francia ↗ El Economista 2026-09-10
2026-09-10	idealista inicia operaciones en Francia ↗ idealista/news +2 sources 3 reportsfirst 2026-09-10 idealista inicia operaciones en Franciaidealista/news · 2026-09-10↗ Idealista aterriza en Francia y avanza en su expansión internacionalCrónica Global (El Español) · 2026-09-10↗ Idealista expande su presencia europea y desembarca en FranciaEl Independiente · 2026-09-11↗ 2026-09-10