A Qatari tech start-up announced the official launch of a new website that will redefine the way people in Qatar search for a new home to rent. Hapondo is a platform that connects real estate brokers to customers, with a focus on residential rental properties.
The platform already has more than 1,500 listings, and aims to provide the best user experience possible and to improve the quality of listings of real estate in Qatar.
“Hapondo was born to fill the gap we saw in the market. It’s 2020 – people are fed up with looking at low quality photos or poor descriptions of properties. We want to help connect tenants looking for a new home with brokers who have quality offerings” said Abdulla Al Fadhala, CEO of Hapondo.
Al Fadhala and his partners, Haajerah Khan, Abdulaziz Al Yazeedi, and Ahmad Al Khanji, co-founded this venture after realising how difficult and frustrating the process was to actually find a new home in Qatar.
For the Hapondo team, it was important to create a product that was for the Qatari market by those who understand it.
Besides being a platform built specifically for Qatar, Abdulaziz Al Yazeedi, Chief Sales Officer of hapondo, elaborated on other unique aspects of Hapondo, “Our goal for this platform is to provide a good user experience, which is why we have been focusing on the speed of our site.
The broker’s portal was designed to simplify the content uploading process, with a particular focus on the quality of content.
Also, we have phased our approach of product development in a way that allows us to collect feedback from our clients and users so we can create a product that is truly for them.”
With the launch of the platform, the Hapondo team is proud to be part of Qatar’s Tech SME ecosystem, helping contribute towards the country’s economic development.
Hapondo is part of QSTP’s Incubation Center, which has given the company access to resources that have helped accelerate hapondo’s development in the past months.
With a very strong goal in mind, and the proper support, Hapondo seeks to make a lasting impact in the real estate scene in Qatar. Al Yazeedi stated: “We want Hapondo to help elevate the overall quality level of online marketplaces in general in the country.
It’s simple, tenants should be able to find what they are looking for, and brokers should be able to readily display their quality properties. With our unique algorithm and interface, Hapondo will make that happen.”
