I first heard about Lamudi from a cousin who was trying to sell a condo in BGC. “Try Lamudi,” she said, swiping through listings on her phone like it was Facebook. I shrugged. Real estate online? I wasn’t sure. It felt a bit risky—like, how can you trust a website with something as big as buying or selling a home? But a few months later, I found myself knee-deep in apartment hunting. Rent was...