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Partner & Chief Growth Officer | 1001square Network
Ivo Perts is an entrepreneur and property portal operator with over 15 years of experience building and growing online real estate marketplaces.
He is a Partner and Chief Growth Officer at 1001square. After joining, he analysed the network’s leads, commercial data and client relationships, and found that commercial real estate runs on the relationship with the tenant. That insight shaped 1001square’s tenant-first approach and its 2026 pilot programmes with selected partners such as iO Partners.
From 2011 to 2022, he was co-founder and CEO of Mesto.ua, a real estate classifieds platform in Ukraine. At its peak, Mesto had over 1 million monthly unique visitors, 300,000 listings and 40 full-time staff.
He then joined Realo in Belgium as VP of Growth, leading sales, customer success, marketing and product through to its exit to AVIV Group. After the acquisition, he became Head of Data Products at AVIV, overseeing property valuation and market insight products.
Today, he is focused on turning tenant demand into closed deals, using data and AI to connect occupiers with the right agents and spaces across borders.
One Marketplace, Eight Markets:Building Europe’s First Country-Agnostic Commercial Real Estate Platform
Most commercial real estate portals stop at the border. Around 30% of the tenant requests flowing through this network do not. For 15 years Officerentinfo.com and Warehouserentinfo.com have run a network of commercial property marketplaces across eight European markets, serving around 750 clients – including CBRE, JLL, Knight Frank and Savills – and handling over 4 million square metres of office, warehouse and retail requests a year.
Vincent and Ivo explain why they are now merging that network under a single umbrella to create the world’s first country-agnostic marketplace for commercial real estate, and what that means for brokers and landlords who have always sold space one country at a time.They also cover the shift from listing fees to monetising tenant leads with selected partners, and how AI runs through the business: from platform development to AI agents that qualify tenants, follow up across the whole buyer journey and close deals.
