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Redfin stock rises again as market cap nears $2B for tech-powered real estate brokerage

Redfin’s momentum as a newly minted public company continues this morning as its stock rose another 15 percent in early… Read More

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Podcast: All about the Redfin IPO, and what’s next for Seattle’s newest public company

Redfin went public Friday morning in the Seattle region’s first IPO of the year, and on this special edition of… Read More

Redfin vs. Zillow: Comparing the two real estate powerhouses at the time of their IPOs

Redfin and Zillow are close neighbors in Seattle, but they’ve not always gotten along. The two companies have vastly different… Read More

Redfin stock climbs in tech-powered brokerage’s first day as public company

UPDATE: Redfin stock increased close to 45 percent in the first day of trading, opening at $19.56 and closing at… Read More

Video: This basketball legend loves Redfin

Redfin is gearing up to go public on Friday, but the Seattle tech-powered residential real estate brokerage already has one… Read More

In updated IPO filing, Redfin says its co-founder is threatening patent suit

Two days before its initial public offering, Redfin disclosed in an updated regulatory filing today that its co-founder and former… Read More

Seattle cranes

Seattle home prices rise at more than twice national average, as U.S. tech hubs see biggest gains

Seattle home prices continue to shoot upward faster than a luxury condo building in South Lake Union. In May, the… Read More

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Redfin expected to go public next week in 1st Seattle-area tech IPO of 2017

Redfin is expected to go public Friday, July 28, according to Nasdaq.  The Seattle-based company, which describes itself as a… Read More

Seattle cranes

Downtown Seattle construction boom at a record $5 billion — 40 percent higher than last year

If the cranes dotting the skyline weren’t a clear enough indication, a new report from the Downtown Seattle Association says… Read More

OfferUp expanding Seattle area headquarters as headcount has doubled to 200 people in last year

OfferUp is more than quadrupling the size of its headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. as the mobile marketplace begins to put… Read More

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Tech-powered residential real estate firm Redfin sets IPO terms at $12 to $14 per share

Redfin is inching closer to its proposed initial public offering, with the so-called “technology-powered residential real estate brokerage” setting terms… Read More

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Key question in Redfin IPO: Will it be valued as a tech company or a real estate brokerage?

Is Redfin a real estate brokerage or a tech company? That’s the key question as the Seattle company — originally… Read More

What’s ahead for the historic UW-China tech school in the Seattle region as it prepares for 1st students

This fall, the Global Innovation Exchange will welcome its first student cohort, representing the culmination of close to five years… Read More

Photos: Qualtrics’ Seattle office has grown so fast it is now the company’s ‘co-headquarters’

Two years after “experience management” company Qualtrics set down roots in Seattle, the office has grown rapidly enough to become… Read More

Permit filings point to another Amazon expansion in highly visible office building along I-5

Even as Amazon builds out millions of square feet of new offices in the Seattle area to accommodate its rapidly… Read More

Inside the luxury apartments in the $1.2B Lincoln Square expansion: 10-year leases, $25k/month penthouses and a ‘tech concierge’

Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts… Read More

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Hip-hop star Ryan Lewis using epic 20-minute video to help sell his Seattle home for $7.45M

Ryan Lewis, the famed DJ and producer who rose to hip-hop fame alongside Macklemore, has busted out on his own… Read More

Glenn Kelman

Redfin enters ‘peculiar’ Manhattan real estate market in New York City as it preps to go public

As Redfin prepares to go public, it is making in-roads in the nation’s most unique and expensive real estate market:… Read More

Ex-Amazon manager’s modular, smart housing startup Blokable is raising cash

Blokable, a Seattle startup focused on manufactured housing, with goals of speeding up production, cutting costs for builders and making… Read More

Why is Redfin running its site from a single data center without a backup facility?

Redfin surprised a few people Friday afternoon when it filed for an initial public offering, but inside the standard boilerplate… Read More

Redfin real estate

Redfin testing ‘Redfin Now’ service that lets it buy and resell homes directly with customers

In Redfin’s IPO filing that posted Friday, the company revealed a new service it is testing called Redfin Now that… Read More

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Redfin files for IPO as online real estate company seeks to raise up to $100M

Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin filed for an initial public offering on Friday with U.S. regulators and will seek to… Read More

Redfin sale sign

Redfin data shows more homebuyers making offers without seeing property in person

The hot housing markets in Seattle and others like it across the U.S. are leading more homebuyers to bypass the… Read More

Seattle housing

Booming Seattle maintains title as nation’s hottest housing market for 8th month in a row

Home values in Seattle continued their steady ascent in April, according to the latest Case-Shiller national home price report. Seattle’s… Read More

McMansion Hell

Zillow threatens architecture critic who runs ‘McMansion Hell’ website over her use of images

Update: Follow this link for the latest developments on this story.  The creator of the popular architecture criticism website “McMansion… Read More

Zillow offices

Judge partially overturns $8.3M copyright verdict against Zillow, orders new trial

A copyright battle between Zillow and VHT Inc. over photographs took a sharp turn this week when U.S. District Judge… Read More

Co-working company Industrious expanding to Seattle with new office near Amazon’s headquarters

Another co-working company is coming to Seattle. Industrious, a New York-based company that bills itself as a “high-end” co-working provider,… Read More

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Seattle makes list of housing markets with a big increase in the number of million-dollar homes

With a shortage of available homes for sale and bidding wars driving up the price on whatever does hit the… Read More

Report: Facebook-owned Oculus expands Seattle presence with new office lease

Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, has upped its presence in the Seattle area. Citing two sources who… Read More

How this tech startup is helping 7 homeowners join forces to sell their properties at a premium

In November, Jane and Andy Freeman received an unexpected letter in the mail. A company called CityBldr reached out to notify them… Read More

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