After viewing 40 apartments online and touring 10 in person in the spring, Sicheng Wan finally decided on a US$3,000 (RM13,420)-a-month one-bedroom in a luxury building in Jersey City, New Jersey, a one-transfer commute from his graduate studies at Columbia. The rental platform the Chinese expatriate used: Ehomie.
By offering an all-in-one Internet service, Ehomie New York Inc is like a combination of StreetEasy, Zillow, and Facebook Marketplace for Chinese renters, using an embedded application in the social media app WeChat and a separate brokerage service on its website.