Ghana's number one property website is five years old

meqasa.com, Ghana’s largest property website is five years old this June. The real estate portal is the brainchild of three young Ghanaians; Kelvin Nyame, Kofi Amuasi and Rashad T. Seini. meqasa.com was established in 2013 to provide quality listings to house seekers who are actively looking to buy, rent or sell property in Ghana.

Finding quality listings was once a major challenge of finding property in Ghana.The emergence of meqasa five years ago signified a progression from laborious house hunting for property to the convenience of a digitized market place with the largest number of quality property listings.

In the last five years, meqasa has achieved tremendous milestones including their acquisition of Jumia House Ghana in 2017. They’ve also hosted two major property expos that brought together the biggest real estate players and seekers under one location. The meqasa property expos were organized with the agenda to identify the needs of property seekers, have a fair idea about their budget and then tailor the events to suit their needs.

meqasa.com turned 5 years old in July of 2018. This landmark anniversary was celebrated with a rebranding exercise consisting of a change of colors and a new logo.

As part of the rebranding exercise, meqasa has launched two mobile apps called the meqasa seeker app and the meqasa agent app - to make it easier for people to navigate their own property preferences, tailor their property searches and to communicate with agents easily and directly. This has provided cost and time efficient means of acquiring property.

The meqasa seeker app allows people to browse through thousands of listed properties three times faster than the desktop application, all at the click of a button. The app allows seekers to save their search preferences, filter their searches and send their search preferences to others. Seekers also receive notification alerts on their phones concerning properties they may be interested in based on their search preferences. Another amazing feature about this application is that seekers can directly call, text, whatsapp or email property agents at the click of a button. The application is user friendly which makes it easy for anyone to use.

The other mobile application, primarily for real estate agents delivers up to three times quicker listing of properties to agents’ portfolio, and also serves as a virtual office once logged into. Every detail of agents’ portfolio is synced online, allowing them to preserve information even when their devices malfunction. The app also features push notifications from seekers on properties managed by agents, this has allowed agents to respond to the needs of seekers promptly.

The meqasa agent app now allows agents to make edits to their portfolio easily, especially when listing a new property on the market or marking it as unavailable. This is because with the mobile app, there is no third party interference.

The highlight of the meqasa@5 anniversary will be a fundraiser event organized on behalf of Hope Christian Academy; a school established in 2002 for little children from the Village of Hope orphanage in the Gomoa Fetteh township in the Central region of Ghana, who are deprived of essential facilities such as adequate computers and a modern library, which are indispensable tools that drive innovation, growth and development in today’s world.

The aim of this fundraiser is to furnish the school with computers and a modern library to better equip the pupils in facilitating their learning, training and personal development in becoming wholesome citizens and agents of change functioning effectively in this very competitive world.

Meqasa is counting on the benevolence of the general public in realizing the dreams of the pupils.

Funds for the donation can be given via mobile money from all networks to 0267150275 (meqasa Ltd).