by Karl Wilson
BEIJING , Sept.14 (Xinhuanet) -- Juwai may not be a household name in Australia, Europe or the United States, but in China it is the "must-go-to" site when looking for property overseas. Launched in 2011, Juwai now outranks all US websites combined, according to Baidu, China's version of Google, with 71 percent share of all Chinese online real estate sites.
The site has 2.6 million monthly consumer visits from 315 cities in the Chinese mainland and 48 countries and regions around the world and has more than 2.8 million listings from 89 countries.
The seeds for Juwai , which literally means "home overseas", were sown by two young Australians from Queensland five years ago over a couple of beers in Hong Kong.
Simon Henry and Andrew Taylor had been working in real estate in Hong Kong and Macao since the mid-2000s.