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Real Estate

Pro.com’s new service enables real estate agents to help clients with home repairs

Pro.com, the Seattle startup looking to create one-stop shopping for home repairs, has released a new service for real estate agents… Read More

City of Seattle takes cues from indie app with new site for tracking big real estate projects

The City of Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development released a new online feature this week called “Shaping Seattle: Buildings” —… Read More

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Redfin unveils new housing demand index, shows ‘cooling’ homebuyer interest

Redfin today is unveiling its new Housing Demand Index, a new service that it calls the industry’s “first and only measure… Read More

Zillow takes direct swipe at DocuSign with acquisition of digital signature upstart DotLoop

Five months after acquiring rival Trulia in a blockbuster $2.5 billion deal, Zillow is back in the acquisition game. The… Read More

Zillow Group

Looking to stay innovative, Zillow rejiggers corporate stock structure

Zillow Group is rejiggering its corporate stock, part of an effort to help the Seattle company stay innovative even as… Read More

Paul Allen’s new apartment project is a tribute to Ada Lovelace, and Allen’s history with Bill Gates

The name “Augusta Apartments” might not seem like a programming reference, but it is, and it’s just one of the ways… Read More

Zillow hit with copyright suit that claims ‘brazen theft’ of hundreds of images

Zillow Group has been sued by real estate image provider VHT over allegations that the Zillow Digs home improvement site… Read More

Zillow CFO Chad Cohen steps down after 9 years; shares dip nearly 5%

Zillow Group CFO Chad Cohen is stepping down after nine years at the Seattle online real estate company. Cohen will step down… Read More

30 Rock star Elizabeth Banks instructs folks how to buy homes in humorous video series from Realtor.com

News Corp.’s Realtor.com unit is looking to put more pressure on Zillow with a new set of digital videos featuring… Read More

Redfin unveils ‘Book it Now’ service, giving home shoppers flexibility to schedule on-demand tours on their schedules

Redfin today is introducing a new service dubbed “Book it Now” that allows home shoppers to quickly and easily reserve… Read More

Zillow says national ad campaign working well, now controls more than 50 percent of real estate searches

Zillow Chief Marketing Officer Amy Bohutinsky said the company’s foray into television advertising is working well, and that the Seattle-based… Read More

Zillow Group sells off real estate industry social network ActiveRain

Zillow Group announced today the sale of ActiveRain, the social network for real estate agents, to the Ben Kinney family… Read More

A buyout of Zillow? Rumors send stock of online real estate juggernaut higher

Shares of Zillow jumped more than four percent on Friday after rumors circulated that the Seattle-based online real estate powerhouse… Read More

An exclusive peek inside Dropbox’s new Seattle office, and inside details on the company’s plans

Dropbox officially opened its new Seattle engineering office this week, and walking into the office, there’s no mistaking the location.… Read More

Blame tech workers for the soaring cost of Seattle real estate, Redfin says

When it was first reported that Silicon Valley residents were thinking about moving to Seattle in droves, people immediately wanted to know if these transplants were to blame… Read More

Old meets new: Allen Institute reconstructs historic facade on new Seattle building

How’s this for a trick? Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate today unveiled the new facade for the new Allen… Read More

Zillow’s new ad highlights mobile features when looking for a home

Zillow unveiled a new ad this week called “Homecoming” to pull at your ol’ heartstrings, but mostly to show how… Read More

Xome launches new online home buying site in Zillow and Redfin’s backyard

Xome is launching a brand new twist today on house hunting. In addition to searching for a house online, it… Read More

Seattle’s Zonar Systems opening big new engineering office in downtown Seattle

It’s a popular trend for companies to establish engineering offices in downtown Seattle, aiming to attract tech talent not interested in making… Read More

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A Silicon Valley exodus? Redfin analysis finds Bay Area residents are increasingly looking for homes in Seattle and Portland

One of the most interesting trends we’ve tracked at GeekWire over the past few years is the arrival in Seattle… Read More

Zillow Group

Zillow gets letter from former executive struck from trade secrets case

Zillow scored a few small victories in its legal battle against Realtor.com operator Move, Inc. after a judge granted the… Read More

Investor Ali Partovi described as the ‘polar opposite’ of Warren Buffett when it comes to diet

Despite what people think, organic food can be cheaper and more profitable to grow than their chemically produced counterparts. That… Read More

Redfin touts success of ‘Last Call’ feature in raising last-minute home offers

Homebuyers who are outbid for that new domicile may have technology and data mining to blame — though undoubtedly sellers are… Read More

Zillow accuses Move of scraping its listing data — after Move accused Zillow doing the same

In a filing made public today, Zillow accused Realtor.com operator Move, Inc. of scraping the listing data from its website… Read More

Former Zillow vice president named as writer of accusation-laden letter

Last week, Realtor.com operator Move, Inc. shook up its trade secrets litigation against Zillow by filing an anonymous letter with… Read More

Zillow Group

Zillow tries to coax listing data from multiple listing services with promise of free public records

Zillow announced today that it will begin offering a free feed of public records data to multiple listing services that… Read More

Zillow Group

Zillow fires back at Move in trade secrets case, gets parts of anonymous letter put under seal

The legal drama around an ongoing court case involving Zillow and Realtor.com operator Move, Inc. continued this week with Zillow… Read More

Zillow cites ‘protracted’ Trulia buyout process for 2015 revenue miss, CEO says they’ve got ‘ground to make up’

Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff says he couldn’t be more pleased with the integration of Trulia, the San Francisco-based online… Read More

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Anonymous letter filed in trade secrets case accuses Zillow execs of illegal conduct

Move, Inc., the News Corp. subsidiary that operates Realtor.com, submitted a new filing in its ongoing trade secrets litigation against… Read More

ListHub says Zillow still using its listing data despite contract expiration

ListHub isn’t happy that Zillow is still using its data. The Move Inc.-owned company issued a letter to its customers… Read More

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