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5i5j Holding Group

5i5j.com ↗

Chinese real estate brokerage platform connecting agents, listings, and buyers.

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Assessed 25 July 2026 · Evidence as of 25 July 2026
Not much stands between this business and its pressures.
On the recordSince 25 July 2026 · Checkable from Aug 28, 2026 · Every call on the record Checkpoint: Next quarterly earnings release
The call

5i5j keeps shrinking inside a shrinking market, with revenue declines that outpace the broader Chinese real estate sector.

5i5j helps homebuyers and sellers connect with real-estate agents in China through its online platform and tools. It is getting squeezed because Beike, a much larger competitor backed by major investors, is absorbing smaller brokerages into its own platform, and because ByteDance (the company behind TikTok) launched an AI-powered tool called Xinghao Youjia that finds real-estate customers faster using short videos. What could change the picture: if 5i5j stops losing customers as quickly by August 2026, it might prove it has found a way to compete, but if it keeps losing 20% or more in sales each quarter, it will confirm it is being replaced.

Why
01
AI pressure: ByteDance's Xinghao Youjia. Short-video AI lead generation tool is pulling early-funnel buyer attention away from traditional listing platforms like 5i5j. Could AI do the core job? Yes, likely.
02
Bigger players: KE Holdings (Beike/Lianjia). Beike's platform model is built to absorb smaller agencies' listings and agents, and 5i5j's revenue is falling faster than the sector average. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.
03
What protects it. Licensed agents and transaction compliance, but this is shared across the whole industry, not unique to 5i5j.
What would change this call
5i5j's Aug 28, 2026 earnings release shows revenue decline rate versus prior quarters. Stabilization would suggest slowed share loss; another 20%+ miss confirms accelerating loss to Beike.
Beike discloses ACN agent/listing counts showing former 5i5j agents joining its network. Direct evidence of Beike absorbing 5i5j's agent base and listings.
Public reports of Xinghao Youjia's real-estate lead volume or city coverage expanding through 2026. Shows ByteDance's AI tool capturing early-funnel customers that 5i5j targets.
Key numbers
  • FY2025 revenue fell 16.4% to CN¥10.48B (2026-07-02)
  • Q1 2026 revenue down 23.5% YoY to CN¥2.16B (2026-07-02)
  • Market cap around CN¥5 billion (2026-07-25)
Named risks
  • China residential property downturn directly depresses brokerage transaction volume. Severity: high
  • Beike's platform model structurally designed to absorb smaller agencies' listings and agents. Severity: high
  • AI-driven lead-generation entrants like Xinghao Youjia eroding early-funnel customer acquisition. Severity: medium
  • Repeated quarterly revenue misses of 25-35% versus analyst forecasts in 2025. Severity: medium
  • Net income volatility swinging from loss to profit to loss across 2023-2026. Severity: medium
Rivals, as read in July 2026
RivalDirectionEvidence
KE Holdings (Beike/Lianjia)losing toBeike's absorb-third-party-agency platform vs 5i5j revenue down 22.1% TTM through Q1 2026
ByteDance's Xinghao Youjialosing toAI short-video lead-gen tool reported growing substantially 2024-2025 (vendor-claimed)
58.com/AnjukecontestingOnline classifieds compete for early-funnel real estate leads against brokerage model
Questions people ask
Is 5i5j Holding Group profitable in 2026?
No. Net income was negative CN¥97.45 million on a trailing-twelve-month basis through Q1 2026, reversing a brief CN¥73-107 million profit in 2024 and following an CN¥848 million loss in 2023, as of March 11, 2026 (WSJ data).
Could AI replace 5i5j's real estate brokers?
Not the licensed transaction work (contracts, notarization, registration), which stays human-dependent, but early-funnel lead generation is already being contested by ByteDance's Xinghao Youjia, a short-video AI tool reported growing substantially in 2024-2025 (company-vendor claim).
Who is 5i5j Holding Group's biggest competitor?
KE Holdings (Beike/Lianjia), a Tencent, SoftBank and Hillhouse-backed, NYSE/HKEX dual-listed platform whose Agent Cooperation Network is built to absorb third-party agency listings, dwarfing 5i5j which saw revenue fall 22.1% YoY through Q1 2026.
Is 5i5j Holding Group laying off employees?
No mass layoffs found. Headcount held roughly flat at about 33,137 employees as of 2025/2026 versus 33,370 in 2022, despite revenue falling 16.4% in FY2025 and 22.1% on a trailing basis through Q1 2026 (Yahoo Finance, stockanalysis.com).
What stock exchange does 5i5j Holding Group trade on?
5i5j trades on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as SZSE:000560, listed since September 1996 and CNY-denominated, not on Nasdaq; the company has been listed there under its current name since an April 2018 rebrand, per Simply Wall St, July 21, 2026.
Who owns or controls 5i5j Holding Group?
Chairman and President Yong Xie has led 5i5j since 2015 but personally owns only about 0.64% of shares outstanding; the company has roughly 2.36 billion shares outstanding and a market cap near CN¥4.9-5.1 billion as of July 25, 2026.
Timeline
  • 2026-08-28Next scheduled quarterly/interim earnings release
  • 2026-07-25Market cap reported at roughly CN¥4.9-5.1 billion
  • 2026-07-21Simply Wall St confirms SZSE:000560 listing, corrects Nasdaq assumption
  • 2026-07-02TTM revenue reported at CN¥9.82B, down 22.1% YoY through Q1 2026
  • 2026-03-11WSJ reports TTM net income of negative CN¥97.45 million
  • 2025-10-21MarketWatch profile discloses Dec 2024 insider stock sales
  • 2024-12Insider Xiao Gao sells ~$2.9M in shares at $3.18-$3.36 each
  • 2020-08Rival KE Holdings (Beike) IPOs, raising US$2.12 billion
  • 2018-04Company rebrands from Kunming Sinobright to 5i5j Holding Group
  • 1996-09Company lists on Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Revision history
25 July 2026
First assessed. Little protection left. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.
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