Who owns Flatmates.com.au?
Flatmates.com.au is owned by REA Group (Australia, ASX: REA).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: REA Group Ltd Annual Report 2026 (year ended 30 June 2026), 6 August 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- REA Group Ltd reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇦🇺 Australia, Melbourne
- Origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Property listings
- Parent ticker
- ASX: REA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Flatmates.com.au
Flatmates.com.au is the Australian website for share accommodation, where people with a spare room look for flatmates and renters look for a room, and it is held through the wholly owned subsidiary Flatmates.com.au Pty Ltd. REA Group describes it as the leading website dedicated to share property, citing 2.7 million average monthly website visits in the year to June 2026 against its closest competitor, and says that year's work went on rebuilding the app's messaging, a suburb-finding tool and a room valuation tool.
Ownership timeline of Flatmates.com.au
Where Flatmates.com.au sits in REA Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by REA Group
REA Group controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in property listings, and who owns them
The 19 brands in property listings on Brandtree belong to 8 owners. The largest is CoStar, with 6; REA Group has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments.com | CoStar | 🇺🇸 United States |
| 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 |
| Domain | CoStar | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: REA Group
REA Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, founded in 1995. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as ASX: REA.
REA Group is the Australian property-technology company behind realestate.com.au, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with its registered office at 511 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria, and operating there since 1995. In the year to 30 June 2026 it reported revenue of $1,793 million and a net profit of $650 million, with about 2,900 staff. Alongside its portals it owns Mortgage Choice, PropTrack, CampaignAgent and Realtair. It holds only 20 per cent of Move, Inc., the operator of realtor.com in the United States, and sells its remaining Indian business, Housing.com, to Aurum PropTech, a sale still awaiting completion at year end. Its directors include nominees of News Corp.
🇦🇺 Flatmates.com.au and other Australian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 203 brands that began in Australia. 59 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Flatmates.com.au is not one of them.
- 7plus — Southern Cross Media Group 🇦🇺
- 9Now — Nine 🇦🇺
- Afterpay — Block 🇺🇸
- Corporate Traveller — Flight Centre Travel Group 🇦🇺
- Domain — CoStar 🇺🇸
- Google Maps — Alphabet 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Flatmates.com.au?
The parent company of Flatmates.com.au is REA Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Australia.
Is Flatmates.com.au Australian?
Yes. Flatmates.com.au originated in Australia and its owner, REA Group, is also headquartered in Australia.
Is Flatmates.com.au still owned by REA Group?
Yes. As of 2 October 2026, Flatmates.com.au is still owned by REA Group. 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] REA Group Ltd Annual Report 2026 (year ended 30 June 2026) — REA Group Ltd, Annual report, published 6 August 2026; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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