Real Estate – Page 11 of 42

Zillow expanding home buying and selling program to Atlanta, its 3rd market so far

Starting this fall, homeowners in Atlanta will be able to request an offer from Seattle real estate giant Zillow Group… Read More

Fast-growing sales automation startup Outreach scoops up Big Fish Games space for new HQ

Outreach is moving to a new headquarters as the enterprise software startup has already outgrown its current digs in Seattle,… Read More

Amazon HQ2 is still a mystery, but this real estate startup already plans to expand to the winning city

Bryan Copley remembers “the day that the last single-family residence in South Lake Union was bulldozed.” The CityBldr CEO has… Read More

TLDR: Rumored Surface smartphone, Lime scooters in Uber app, dorm-style housing for adults

Today’s featured stories Windows Phone fans lobby Microsoft not to kill rumored Surface dual-screen device aka Andromeda With $335M in… Read More

Co-living startup Common moves into Seattle with dorm-style housing for adults

Cities across the country are contending with housing affordability issues, especially in regions with booming tech economies where high-paid newcomers… Read More

Ex-Peach execs launch tech-powered escrow startup Modus to make home closing less ‘painful’

Alex Day had already been chatting about getting into real estate with his colleague, Jai Sim, at the lunch delivery… Read More

Paul Allen-backed Blokable delivers first unit as part of housing project in Seattle suburb

Blokable, the Seattle startup looking to transform how housing is developed, delivered its first unit as part of a larger… Read More

Microsoft’s massive campus refresh starts later this year, as tech giant picks architects and contractors for the job

Microsoft is one step closer to getting underway with the sweeping refresh of its Redmond, Wash. headquarters campus, with construction… Read More

TLDR Editor’s Picks: How Tech is Changing Seattle

This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: Tech… Read More

Seattle engineer creates Cluck, a Chrome extension to identify scams in Craigslist apartment listings

After spending a couple years working at Zillow as a software development engineer, Joyce Wu thought she had a grasp… Read More

Seattle hits 20 months as the nation’s hottest housing market, but relief for buyers may be on the horizon

Seattle retained its long-running title of the hottest housing market in the country, according to the Case-Shiller national home price report,… Read More

Seattle trails only Bay Area cities when it comes to greatest profits for home sellers, Zillow finds

Buying a home in Seattle these days is no easy task, thanks to low inventory and competition among the many… Read More

Airbnb opens big new Seattle office with room for 300 people, setting down permanent roots

Airbnb has opened a new office in Seattle with room for more than 300 people, making it the latest tech… Read More

Housing markets across the country show dire warning signs — in West Coast tech hubs, it’s worse

Housing in America is getting more expensive, disproportionately burdening middle- and low-income people, and perpetuating wealth inequality. Those dynamics are… Read More

Microsoft spends whopping $250M on huge office complex near its HQ campus

Microsoft just paid nearly $250 million for a 725,000-square-foot office complex that represents something of a missing piece of the puzzle… Read More

Redfin’s first chief economist, Nela Richardson, leaving real estate company after four years in role

Nela Richardson, the first chief economist at Seattle-based Redfin, is leaving the real estate technology company it was announced on… Read More

CityBldr will start buying homes in Seattle — taking on Zillow, Redfin, Opendoor with a twist

Seattle startup CityBldr is getting into the home buying game, taking on real estate heavyweights in its backyard. But unlike… Read More

Zillow hit with patent infringement lawsuit over ‘real estate information search’ apps

Zillow Group and its subsidiary Trulia have been hit with a lawsuit alleging that the real estate tech companies’ mobile… Read More

Seattle ‘out of reach’ for many as new report details the big salary needed to afford a small apartment

In order to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Seattle, you’re going to need to make $61,160 a year. If you… Read More

Blokable aims to solve housing affordability crisis with ‘housing development as a service’ model

Blokable has set its sights on fixing what its leaders deem a broken U.S. housing market. The Seattle startup pulled… Read More

Zillow expands new business of buying and selling homes to its second market: Las Vegas

Zillow Group has expanded its new business of directly buying and selling homes to Las Vegas, its second market after kicking… Read More

Opendoor raises $325M as it battles Redfin and Zillow in competitive homebuying and selling market

Opendoor, a San Francisco online marketplace that buys and sells homes, has raised a whopping $325 million to expand to… Read More

Homes sell faster in Seattle than in any other U.S. real estate market, according to Trulia report

When a for sale sign went into the yard of the house across the street from mine recently, I figured… Read More

Zillow and Redfin execs explain why they jumped into buying and selling houses directly

Both Zillow Group and Redfin have evolved from just trying to simplify residential real estate, to controlling the process from… Read More

‘I’d like to make at least a nickel for our shareholders:’ Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on company’s future goals

There’s a sense of accomplishment that comes with going public, as tech-powered real estate brokerage Redfin did last year. But… Read More

FlyHomes raises $17M to purchase homes for buyers battling cash offers in hot housing markets

In Seattle, the nation’s hottest housing market for 19 straight months, frustrated buyers are losing out to all-cash offers left… Read More

Historic population boom pushes Seattle to 19th month in a row as the nation’s hottest housing market

Seattle has earned a couple of titles that explain a lot of the tension going on in the city lately:… Read More

Home-sellers continue legal battle against Zillow, appeal judge’s decision to toss Zestimate lawsuit

A group of home-sellers in Illinois on Thursday appealed a federal judge’s decision dismissing a lawsuit over Zillow’s Zestimate tool. U.S.… Read More

After the tax: What happens if Amazon puts the brakes on its Seattle growth?

A standoff between Amazon and the city of Seattle ended this week when the City Council passed a pared-down version… Read More

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman sounds off on housing market, says U.S. has become a ‘landlord nation’

Aspiring homebuyers losing out on bidding war after bidding war aren’t the only ones frustrated with the housing market. Redfin… Read More