Hoomzz: Zero-Brokerage Property Marketplace for India's Tricity Region
PropTech & Real Estate MarketplaceThe Tricity rental market runs on phantom listings — broker-controlled posts that look like a direct-owner deal until a wasted site visit says otherwise. We built Hoomzz as a verified, zero-brokerage marketplace covering rent, buy, PG, flatmates, and new projects, with the on-site verification and financial calculators needed to earn trust a broker would normally charge for.
Hoomzz set out to fix a specific trust problem in the Tricity rental and resale market (Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Kharar, Zirakpur): most listings students, IT professionals, and families find online are broker-controlled, meaning what looks like a direct-owner listing is frequently a 'phantom listing' re-posted to farm brokerage fees, with real availability and price only surfacing after a wasted site visit. A marketplace can't compete in that market by being just another listings board — it needs a way to prove a listing is real before a renter travels to see it, cover five very different housing needs (rent, buy, PG, flatmates, new projects) under one product without diluting any of them, and give budget-conscious users like students and first-time buyers enough market data (average rents, per-sq-ft prices, EMI costs) to negotiate with confidence instead of trusting whatever a broker quotes.
Core Pain Points Addressed:
- ❌ Phantom listings — broker-reposted units misrepresented as direct-owner deals, discovered only after a wasted site visit.
- ❌ Brokerage fees — traditional listings funnel every deal through a middleman charging commission on both sides.
- ❌ Five audiences, one board — renters, buyers, PG seekers, flatmate hunters, and project shoppers were underserved by generic listing templates built for one use case.
- ❌ No independent market data — students and first-time buyers had no way to check a quoted rent or price against real locality averages.
Hoomzz
PropTech & Real Estate Marketplace
Web Marketplace Platform
UI/UX, Marketplace Build, Verification Workflow & Financial Tools
Five Journeys, One Verified Marketplace
Wise Hustlers built Hoomzz as a direct-to-consumer property marketplace for India's Tricity region, replacing the broker-mediated listings model with owner-direct posting and a verification workflow that checks every listing's documents and physical on-site condition before it goes live.
The platform covers five separate housing journeys — rental flats and independent floors, resale/purchase listings, PG accommodations, flatmate matching, and new project discovery — each with its own search and filter experience, but unified under shared city and sector landing pages for Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Kharar, and Zirakpur.
To replace the market knowledge a broker would otherwise gate-keep, we built EMI, stamp duty, and rent-vs-buy calculators directly into the browsing flow alongside locality-level average rent and per-square-foot pricing, so a student, IT professional, or first-time buyer can evaluate a listing without a second opinion.
Five Pieces, One Marketplace
Verification Workflow
Every listing passes document validation and a physical on-site check before publishing, directly countering the phantom-listing problem that defines the broker-driven market.
Five Property Journeys
Rent, buy, PG, flatmate matching, and new projects each get their own filters and detail-card layout, all drawing from the same owner-direct listings pool.
City & Sector Landing Pages
Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Kharar, and Zirakpur each have dedicated landing pages with trending listings and locality-level pricing data.
Financial Calculators
EMI, stamp duty, and rent-vs-buy calculators are built into the browsing flow, giving budget-conscious renters and first-time buyers the numbers a broker would normally control.
Owner-Direct Posting
Owners post listings themselves — free for the first two — with saved listings and account management for users on both sides of the deal.
Technology Stack
A verified property marketplace with five listing journeys, built on a stack chosen for real-time data and secure payments at once.
Next.js
Powers every surface — city landing pages, listing search and filters, property detail pages, and the financial calculators — from one codebase.
Firebase Auth
Handles sign-in for both owners posting listings and renters/buyers saving searches, gating the account-only features like saved listings.
Firebase Storage
Stores and serves the property photo galleries attached to every listing, from a single owner-uploaded photo to a full gallery.
Razorpay
Handles checkout for listing upgrades beyond an owner's first two free posts, integrated directly into the post-property flow.
What Shipped
A complete zero-brokerage property marketplace, live at hoomzz.in.
Hoomzz is live at hoomzz.in, serving renters, buyers, and owners across Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Kharar, and Zirakpur.
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