Real estate: nearly 500 professionals already registered on Matchstone before its opening

The platform opens today. Where did the idea for Matchstone come from, and what problem did you initially want to solve? Mikaëlle Legerriez: Matchstone was born from a very simple observation that we made for years in real estate: opportunities exist, buyers exist, but they do not always meet.

The information is very dispersed and still remains very linked to each person's network. And inevitably, if the right buyer is not in your network, you can simply miss out. We also spend a lot of time sorting through opportunities that don’t really match what we’re looking for.

It is to address these two problems that we created Matchstone. Matchstone is not an ad catalog. We have developed an intelligent matching algorithm which cross-references the characteristics of an opportunity with searches, but also with the profile and experience of buyers, to select the most relevant ones.

And by better targeting buyers, we also avoid putting several professionals in unnecessary competition for the same property and fueling bidding wars. The idea is ultimately very simple: pass on the right opportunity to the right professional. You postponed the opening by a few weeks.

Why this choice? Laurent Fournet: In recent months we have exchanged a lot with professionals, and these exchanges made us want to go further before the opening. We have notably added a land feasibility and valuation tool, because it is a real subject for professionals who work with land.

We preferred to delay a few weeks and open with a more complete platform. Nearly 500 professionals have already registered. Who are they (jobs, regions) and what does this figure say about market expectations?

Mikaëlle Legerriez: They are quite different professionals: real estate agents, developers, property dealers, investors, real estate agents… For us, these first registrations show above all that the need that we had identified is shared by many professionals, with very different professions. Now, the challenge is that they actually use Matchstone: that they submit their opportunities and their research so that the first matches are created. Access is free until the first match entered.

What happens next, and how much does it cost? Laurent Registration is free and no payment method is required. The professional can create their profile, submit their search criteria or opportunities and discover how Matchstone works.

It is only when a real match is made with another professional that he chooses the subscription corresponding to his needs. The idea is simple: you start paying when Matchstone starts providing you value. On the other hand, how would you describe the state of the real estate market at the end of 2026, in residential, land and commercial real estate?

Machine-translated from French