Nuroa, a property search engine platform, has just announced the launch of Migoa.com, an international vacation homes search and reservation service (Update – Janauary 2023: The service seems to be no longer in business via this link and we therefore deactivated the link).
This new service of the Barcelona-based startup Nuroa will provide travellers and holiday rental agents with a quality-driven booking and payment platform, which aims to be both simple and secure.
Unlike Airbnb and its competitors, Migoa.com assures holiday home renters that all of the listed properties are professionally managed, which greatly reduces the risks of last-minute cancellations, and guarantees a level of customer service which cannot otherwise be assured by private property owners. On the other side, property managers on the platform benefit from access to an international audience and qualified leads, as well as an advanced information extraction and indexing technology, which automatically uploads their content into Migoa’s platform.
Nuroa’s entry into the vacation rental market with Migoa.com is a natural extension of its existing property search service. Nuroa currently provides millions of qualified leads and a database of more than 20 million properties available for long-term rental and sale in 15 countries. According to Nuroa, its success is due to the strength and dexterity of its content aggregation platform, which will also play an important role in the development of Migoa.com.
Oriol Blasco, Nuroa’s CEO and founder, commented on the recent launch: “Four months into the beta launch, Migoa.com already has 80,000 holiday rental properties listed in 5 languages and 200,000 unique users per month. Migoa.com is positioned to become the leading platform for vacationers searching for professionally managed holiday rentals. We plan to update the service with advanced features and tools in the next few months which will continue to improve the user experience.”
The real estate search engine Nuroa is available in 15 markets with over 5 million users per month. Nuroa was founded in 2007, has a team of 22 people, and has been financed with €1.5 million by Highgrowth Partners and leading business angels. In addition to these private investments, Nuroa also received some soft loans from the Spanish government.
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Once upon a time, a vacation home was something that was accessible only to the fabulously wealthy and located in far-flung places. Of course, we now know this isn’t true. A vacation house doesn’t have to be out of reach if you’ve put enough planning and budgeting into your vacation home plans.