Who owns Lianjia?
Lianjia is controlled by KE Holdings (China, NYSE: BEKE).[1]
KE Holdings says it owns and operates the Lianjia brand, but it has contractual control, not equity ownership, of Beijing Lianjia, the variable interest entity that runs it; Beike (Tianjin) holds 30% of that entity.
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
- 2001 by Zuo Hui
- Category
- Real estate › Brokerage & services › Real estate brokers
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: BEKE HKEX: 2423
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Lianjia
Lianjia is the real estate brokerage brand that KE Holdings owns and operates itself, founded as Beijing Lianjia in September 2001 by Zuo Hui, who is now the company's permanent chairman emeritus. The 20-F says Lianjia launched Lianjia.com in 2010, put the Housing Dictionary online in 2008 and set up the prototype of the Agent Cooperation Network in 2011.
How often KE Holdings names Lianjia 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 less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Lianjia
- Current owner KE Holdings [1] verified KE Holdings says it owns and operates the Lianjia brand, but it has contractual control, not equity ownership, of Beijing Lianjia, the variable interest entity that runs it; Beike (Tianjin) holds 30% of that entity.
Where Lianjia 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, 6 of them in real estate.
Also in real estate
Other brands in real estate brokers, and who owns them
The 10 brands in real estate brokers on Brandtree belong to 7 owners. The largest is Fathom Holdings, with 3; KE Holdings has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fathom Realty | Fathom Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Compass | Compass | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Douglas Elliman | Douglas Elliman | 🇺🇸 United States |
| HomePro | Offerpad | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Real Brokerage | Real REMAX Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Redfin | Rocket Companies | 🇺🇸 United States |
| My Home Group | Fathom Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| START Real Estate | Fathom Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
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.
🇨🇳 Lianjia 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; Lianjia is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Lianjia?
The parent company of Lianjia is KE Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Lianjia Chinese?
Yes. Lianjia originated in China in 2001 and its owner, KE Holdings, is also headquartered in China.
Is Lianjia still owned by KE Holdings?
Yes. As of 17 October 2026, Lianjia 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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