Type Private Company Headquarters Charny, Quebec Founder Nicolas Bouchard Parent organization Yellow Pages Group | Industry Real estate Website DuProprio.com Number of employees 400 | |
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Key people Nicolas Bouchard, Founder, Marco Dodier, President and CEO Founded 1997, Charny, Quebec, Lévis, Canada Profiles | ||
Activities
DuProprio and its Anglophone siblings, ComFree and ComFree Commonsense Network brokerage, make up Canada's largest commission-free real estate network. Its website, duproprio.com, lists over 17,000 properties for sale and gets 5 million visitors every month.
History
Nicolas Bouchard founded the company in 1997, in Quebec. The company, which was originally called directduproprio, became DuProprio.com in 2004, and finally became DuProprio in 2011.
In 2009, it acquired Private Real Estate, SKhomes4sale and ComFree; other Canadian companies specialized in commission-free real estate sales. After the acquisition, DuProprio's brand image was revamped.
By 2011, the company said that 100,000 properties had sold through the DuProprio network.
In 2015, the company was purchased by Yellow Pages Group for $50 million.
In 2016, the Quebec Superior Court certified a class action lawsuit by the Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards against DuProprio alleging that its advertisements had unfairly denigrated real estate agents.