When founded: Zonda, formerly construction industry media company Hanley Wood, traces its roots to its founding in 1976 by Michael Wood and Michael Hanley.

What Zonda does: Zonda provides real-time market data and advisory services to homebuilders, land brokers, developers, mortgage lenders, finance professionals and building product manufacturers.

History: New York private investment firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson bought Hanley Wood for $260 million in 1999, followed by private equity company JPMorgan Partners (now CCMP Capital Advisors) in 2005 for an estimated $650 million, according to Crunchbase, an online tracker of private deals.

In 2012, Hanley Wood recapitalized and reduced its long-term debt by $330 million. A new ownership group, led by Oaktree Capital, Strategic Value Partners and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, invested $35 million in the company.

In 2018, New York City-based private equity company MidOcean Partners bought Hanley Wood and Meyers Research, a real-time market data service in the homebuilding industry and a unit of Beverly Hills-based global real estate firm Kennedy Wilson, for an undisclosed amount. In 2020, the company was rebranded as Zonda Home.