Mumbai-based real estate portal Housing.co.in, has raised an undisclosed amount of angel investment, reports Yourstory.in. The report states that the investment was led by Chaupaati Bazaar co-founder Zishaan Hayath and saw participation from other investors like Vaibhav Puranik, Shishir Kapoor, Hemanth Goteti, Gagan Goyal, Harsh Baid, Aditya Agarwal and Aatif Misbah. The company plans to use the raised capital for hiring. Interestingly, Housing.co.in has as many as 12 co-founders. Founded in 2012, Housing.co.in is a location based rental property listing portal available as a web app and a mobile site. The company is currently operational only in Mumbai and its suburbs including Navi Mumbai. It claims to include only curated property listings on its portal, although when we checked, we found the portal to have a significantly low number of property listings. The company website also suggests that it plans to extend its offerings to allow users to list their property for sale and search for property to buy. Map-Based Search When we checked, we noticed that the site currently offers a map-view of all the properties listed in Mumbai. One can select their preferred region to rent a flat to view various types of properties listed in that region. What's worth noting is that the site offers an visualization of the pricing for each room type based on the area, when one hovers over any specific area. We also noticed that one can further filter the results based on price, number of rooms and furnishing or choose to see listings only from brokers or landlords. Interestingly, the portal also offers specific furnishing/amenities filters. For instance, one can search for a…
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