About us

Gumtree was founded in 2000 as a community site in London to help Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans find a place to stay, a job, and everything one needs to settle in, including furniture and new friends. The expats liked the idea so much, they started Gumtree sites in their own countries. Meanwhile, the London site became the city’s most popular online classifieds.

In 2005, Gumtree became part of eBay. Today, we’re the leading classifieds site in the Australia, South Africa and Singapore. We’re also in Hong Kong and major cities in New Zealand and Poland.

The Gumtree spirit remains cheerfully local and filled with passion – for some, the passion is driven by the uniqueness of the platform, for most it is the power of the platform to fulfil the core need of finding immediate value across a range of categories – goods, jobs, cars and more. Our user base is diversifying, geographically beyond the main cities, and broadening beyond its antipodean roots.