Who owns Beike?
Beike is controlled by KE Holdings (China, NYSE: BEKE).[1]
KE Holdings has contractual control, not equity ownership, of the variable interest entities that operate the Beike and Lianjia apps and websites.
Evidence: KE Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- KE Holdings Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Founded
- 2018
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Property listings
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: BEKE HKEX: 2423
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Beike
Beike is the housing transactions and services platform of KE Holdings, which the 20-F says it launched in 2018. Customers reach existing-home, new-home and rental listings through the ke.com website, the Beike apps and its Weixin mini programs. Brokerage brands connect to the platform under business cooperation agreements, which give them its Agent Cooperation Network and SaaS systems.
How often KE Holdings names Beike in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Beike
- Current owner KE Holdings [1] verified KE Holdings has contractual control, not equity ownership, of the variable interest entities that operate the Beike and Lianjia apps and websites.
Where Beike sits in KE Holdings
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by KE Holdings
KE Holdings controls 7 brands on Brandtree.
Other brands in property listings, and who owns them
The 20 brands in property listings on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is CoStar, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments.com | CoStar | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flatmates.com.au | REA Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| StreetEasy | Zillow | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flatfox | SMG Swiss Marketplace Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Bina.az | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Mercado Libre Classifieds | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
| realtor.com | News Corp | 🇺🇸 United States |
| OneRoof | NZME | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
About the owner: KE Holdings
KE Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China, founded in 2001. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: BEKE and HKEX: 2423.
KE Holdings is a Cayman Islands holding company, trading as Beike, whose principal executive offices are in Beijing. Its 20-F for the year to 31 December 2025 says it began operating in 2001 through Beijing Lianjia, and that its housing transactions platform had about 58,000 active brokerage stores and over 445,000 active agents at year end, with gross transaction value of RMB3,183.3 billion for 2025. Its ADSs have traded on the NYSE since August 2020 and its Class A shares in Hong Kong since May 2022.
🇨🇳 Beike and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 327 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Beike is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Beike?
The parent company of Beike is KE Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Beike Chinese?
Yes. Beike originated in China in 2018 and its owner, KE Holdings, is also headquartered in China.
Is Beike still owned by KE Holdings?
Yes. As of 17 October 2026, Beike is still controlled by KE Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] KE Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 24 April 2026; retrieved 17 October 2026.
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