Noida,99acres.com, the No.1 real estate portal in India has emerged as the most preferred site by NRIs for real estate information in India as per the recently released NRI Online 2010 report by Juxtconsult. The study revealed maximum number of online NRI users preferred 99acres.com to other real estate portals when it comes to searching for real estate. The report provides some interesting insights into the online behavioural patterns of NRIs.

Vineet Singh, Business Head, 99acres.com said 99acres.com has always been the No.1 destination for the NRI property buyers over the years. This years results show that 99acres.com continues to grow strength from strength in the NRI community. With over 20% of NRI traffic, 99acres.com is the chosen platform for most of the builders and brokers wanting to reach out to the Indian diaspora abroad.

The survey covered the activity of 1,549 online NRIs from various parts of the world and responses were collected using geographically targeted contextual search ad campaign on Google as well as from some country-specific online panels. It covered NRIs from US, Canada, UK, Western Europe (West-based), Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, central and South America and South Asia to understand NRI Internet usage behavior. They have taken into account NRI user online behaviour, years of experience in using internet, places of accessing internet, frequency of usage and time spent on the net.

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About 99acres.com

99acres.com is the no.1 property portal in India. It was launched by Info Edge, in September 2005, as a gateway to the countrys property bazaar, and an information exchange for buying, renting and selling of all types of residential and commercial properties anywhere in the country. The website enables easy access to a huge property bank for netizens and allows for direct connect with brokers/builders in cities in urban and remote parts of India. With properties of almost 8000 builders, 60,000 brokers and 1,00,000 individuals, the portal lists over 200000 properties at any time. The website has a registered database of 3,00,000 users.

Info Edge is a leading provider of online recruitment, matrimonial, real estate and educational classifieds and related services in India. Our business is managed primarily through five divisions, which comprise online recruitment classified division, online matrimonial classified division, online real estate classified division, offline executive search division and online educational classifieds division. The company to address the Middle East job market has launched a Gulf version of the recruitment site. The company also launched a career counseling and guidance site, a professional networking site and an education classified site.