Commonfloor.com declared ‘Best Housing and Interior Website’ by MetrixLab

The Website of the Year (India)award is an online people's choice initiative by MetrixLab.The yearly initiative saw 264 websites nominations across 22 categories and more than 15,000 votes were cast by netizens, based on which the winners were arrived at. In each category there were two prizes to be won. The title 'Best Website' was awarded to a website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood, while the title 'Most Popular Website' was provided to the one with the highest number of votes. Commonfloor has won this award owing to its voluminous database for properties including detailed descriptions, proper maps, pictures by owners / users as well as easy navigation and strong area-wise recommendation.

Launched in 2007 by Sumit Jain, Lalit Mangal and Vikas Malpani, Commonfloor.com is an innovative online solution that addresses a person’s complete residential requirements. The objective behind setting up Commonfloor is to make an apartment buyer / owner’s life easier by bringing him to a common platform where he can interact with others like himself and avail services which would help solve his problems. The portal is committed to become a one-stop destination for home seekers, residents, association members and service providers.

Commonfloor helps different stake holders in real estate market in different ways. On one hand, it helps apartment seekers identify the right apartment to rent / buy, interact with dealers as well as owners and collect relevant information about a property, thereby helping him make a decision. On the other hand, Commonfloor helps apartment owners connect with buyers / tenants / agents and for agents and builders, Commonfloor helps in providing relevant and accurate information about the property to prospective buyers / tenants.

On the apartment management front, Commonfloor acts as a tool to computerize the community management processes and leverage the internet to discuss issues and share information through e-mails and SMS. Commonfloor also acts as a sourcing and marketing channel for property agents, developers, service providers, brands and businesses to offer their services to the relevant target audience in apartments, in a non-intrusive manner.

Vikas Malpani, Head, Marketing & Communities at Commonfloor.comsaid, “We are honored and happy that our effort towards providing a unified platform for all kinds of realty requirements has been recognized. This is proof that we have been able to understand the needs of our different customer-sets and have created a successful portal which is a one stop shop for a person’s residential requirements. We see a great opportunity in this market going forward and believe that, as pioneers in this space, we are perfectly placed to avail it.”

About Commonfloor.com
Launched in 2007 by Sumit Jain, Lalit Mangal and Vikas Malpani, Commonfloor.com, is an innovative online portal that combines property search with apartment management services and caters to a person’s complete residential requirements. From searching for an apartment to facilitating interactions within an apartment community on the ‘common floor’ platform, to connecting one to relevant service providers, the portal is dedicated to meeting all aspects of consumers’ needs around their home. Commonfloor is currently present in 105 cities and has over 28,000 communities listed with it, which constitutes more than 25 Lakh homes. The company has been funded by Accel Partners.
To know more about Commonfloor, please visit: http://www.commonfloor.com