[HONG KONG] United States real estate information service Zillow Inc plans to partner with a Beijing-based peer to tap growing interest from Chinese mainland clients, the second-largest foreign buyers of US homes last year.

Seattle-based Zillow said in a statement yesterday it has signed an agreementwith Beijing Yisheng Leju Information Services Co in a deal that will see a co-branded website translated into Chinese but operated by the US company.

The site will operate from early summer this year, giving users of Leju, an affiliate of E-House (China) Holdings Ltd, access to home search data in the US.