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Domain Group is a wholly owned business of Fairfax Media, a major newspaper publisher in Australia, primarily operating the property portal domain.com.au and associated real-estate industry businesses. Fairfax branded their real-estate sections in print with the Domain brand and first established an online presence in 1999.<ref name="domain">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since then the Domain Group has grown from the real-estate portal domain.com.au into Australia's second largest real-estate marketing business with 90% market penetration,<ref name="rebonline">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> competing directly with REA Group.<ref name="fool">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="theaustralian">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In March 2015 Fairfax held an investor briefing focused on the Domain Group <ref>http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20150331/pdf/42xmmyz8m76ktx.pdf</ref>
The Domain Group consists of a portfolio of businesses<ref name="domain2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> including:
- The home listings portal domain.com.au
- The commercial property portal commercialrealestate.com.au
- An agency CRM and listings management system called My Desktop
- APM Pricefinder, a property data business whose products focus on modelling projected values of real estate for investors, agents and financial institutions
- Metro Media Publishing Group (MMP), which was fully acquired by Fairfax Media in January 2015<ref name="fairfaxmedia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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In February 2015, the Australian Financial Review published an article highlighting Credit Suisse analyst expectations of a likely float of the Domain Group in the future, and attributed an AUD $1.3 billion valuation to the group.<ref name="afr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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