Seattle’s ‘Manhattan moment’: Luxury condo preview is a house party for a changing city The Rolls-Royce and the Ferrari parked in front of a real estate sales office in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood Wednesday night were… Read More
Newly leased Amazon office building in Seattle sells for $330M to German investors Another Amazon building has sold for big bucks. This time around it’s a building called Midtown21. Amazon announced its lease… Read More
Airbnb cements Seattle presence, establishing permanent office with room for 300 people Airbnb is putting down permanent roots in Seattle with a major new office that makes the vacation rentals company the… Read More
Expedia clears major planning milestone in preparation for 2019 HQ move to Seattle Expedia just cleared an important permitting milestone with the city of Seattle as it prepares to move the majority of… Read More
Smart home startup Kirio’s first product works with pretty much any device, including the kitchen sink Seattle area smart home startup Kirio just released its first product, and it aims to take home automation to a new… Read More
Amazon Go job posting points to potential expansion of checkout-free retail concept Amazon is still refining its checkout-free grocery experience, Amazon Go, but there are new signs that the online retail giant… Read More
Seattle-area homebuilder now including smart home tech packages standard in all future projects It wasn’t long ago that smart home technology — such as connected lighting and thermostats — was a luxury only… Read More
Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’ Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out… Read More
Portland approves first wood high-rise building in U.S. with 12-story project called Framework A 12-story, wood-construction high rise in Portland will be the first of its kind in the country after the project, called… Read More
Sphere of influence: 46-story tower near Amazon campus will have domed top reminiscent of tech giant’s new landmark They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Amazon, get ready to be flattered. The idea for the… Read More
Big demand, little supply: Seattle’s hot housing market gets hotter with highest price gains in U.S. Hopeful home buyers in the Seattle area are up against the toughest purchasing prospects in the country as the market again posted… Read More
Zillow announces $1M prize for anyone who can improve the algorithm for its Zestimate The Zillow Zestimate, that much-debated, computer-generated home valuation tool, has been a fixture of the Seattle-based real estate media company… Read More
Zillow ‘Instant Offers’ launches in two cities to test quick-and-easy option for home sellers Zillow has waded into the complicated and sometimes lengthy process of selling a home by launching a new product on… Read More
Building home to Facebook’s Frank Gehry-designed Seattle office sells for $286M Dexter Station, a 10-story building in Seattle’s South Lake Union that is home to Facebook’s new Frank Gehry-designed office, just… Read More
New Seattle apartment building has ties back to Paul Allen, Bill Gates and computer programming Another development from the real estate wing of Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. is currently welcoming its new residents, and the… Read More
Aerial photos: Construction begins on Google’s massive Seattle campus in Amazon’s backyard Crews have started work on Google’s new campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, on the edge of Amazon’s global headquarters. The… Read More
Real estate lawyer sues Zillow, calls Zestimate a ‘tremendous roadblock’ to selling her home Since its inception, Zillow’s home-value calculator, know as the “Zestimate” has been one of the most controversial features of the… Read More
Those big white signs posted on Seattle development projects are getting a makeover They’re as much of a symbol of the changing face of Seattle as the hoard of six-story apartment buildings going up… Read More
How F5 Networks emerged from behind the scenes to claim an iconic new Seattle skyscraper This week, F5 Networks signed the biggest office lease of the year in Seattle, in a striking new skyscraper under construction… Read More
F5 Networks will move HQ to glitzy new Seattle skyscraper, to be called ‘F5 Tower’ Updated below with financial terms of the lease. F5 Networks has leased all of the office space in an eye-catching skyscraper under… Read More
Zillow Group launches RealEstate.com to target first-time home buyers, with a focus on budget Grabbing and keeping the attention of millennials online these days is a challenge for any company. But when it comes to… Read More
Zillow dropping manual listings as it seeks to heal relationship with Seattle listing service Zillow today is ending a feature that let brokers manually add their home listings to the Seattle real estate company’s… Read More
Amazon makes a ‘regional play’ with surprise Bellevue expansion — and it could be just the start More than two decades ago, long before Amazon was the king of online retail and cloud computing, the company ran… Read More
New Zillow commercials tug at the heart strings by playing off emotion that goes into ‘Finding Home’ If you think looking for or attempting to buy a home is already an emotional experience, new ads from Zillow… Read More
Redfin report tracks which cities people want to flee (Bay Area) and where they want to stay (Seattle) An inaugural quarterly report from Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin takes a look at the migration patterns of people… Read More
This real estate analyst remains an optimist during the Trump era — for now Long before he became real estate powerhouse CBRE’s head of research for the Americas, Spencer Levy was a young lawyer in… Read More
Trulia debuts ‘Affordability Calculator’ to help house hunters better understand their price range Home prices are steadily crawling upward nationwide, due to high demand and low inventory. That means house hunters may be… Read More
Siemens touts benefits of open office setup as it moves teams to new Bellevue location Siemens’ Building Technologies and Digital Factory teams have made a move west on Interstate 90 from the suburb of Issaquah,… Read More
Former Redfin employees aim to simplify the mortgage process with new startup: Approved Technology has made finding a home a lot easier, with a variety of services such as Zillow, Redfin and many… Read More
Amazon confirms plans for big new office in Bellevue; employees set to move in this summer Amazon has confirmed previously-reported plans to open a big new office in downtown Bellevue, Wash. GeekWire reported last year that… Read More
