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Real Estate

Q&A: Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff takes the long view after first-day IPO pop

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff started his day by ringing the bell on the Nasdaq stock exchange, setting off a flurry… Read More

Shares of Zillow skyrocket in debut

There were a lot of doubters about whether Zillow had what it takes to become a publicly-traded company. But, at… Read More

Zillow prices IPO at $20 per share, signaling strong demand for the online real estate company

Call it a little IPO euphoria. For anyone wondering whether investors would bite on Zillow’s initial public offering, here’s your… Read More

Zillow set to price IPO this week: Six things to think about

It has been just over a year since a technology company in Washington state — Bellevue-based Motricity —  completed an… Read More

Zillow boosts IPO price range to $16 to $18, aims to raise $71 million

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Executive Chairman Rich Barton must have a polished pitch on their IPO road show. The… Read More

Amazon eyes new Seattle tower for even more growth

Amazon.com has been growing like crazy — adding 4,200 people worldwide in the first three months of this year alone.… Read More

After reverse split, Zillow sets IPO price range at $12 to 14 per share

Zillow continues to inch toward the public markets, disclosing in a SEC filing today that it plans to sell 3.4… Read More

Redfin cuts home buyer’s refund to 33 percent in Boston

Redfin’s Boston customers won’t be walking away with as much cash in their pockets thanks to a new pricing model… Read More

Zestimates wildly inaccurate in Kenmore: A $395,000 home valued at $10 million?

Earlier this week, Zillow introduced a new-and-improved Zestimate algorithm which was supposed to assign more accurate values to homes across… Read More

Zillow makes real estate ‘sexy,’ revamps Zestimate algorithm

Zillow is making big changes to its Zestimate, the algorithm it uses to determine the value of homes across the… Read More

Zillow’s traffic is booming, posts 22 million visitors in May

Zillow is still showing a net loss, but the Seattle online real estate company’s traffic continues to increase as it… Read More

Zillow drops the dot com: Is it even relevant anymore in a mobile world?

I’ve been covering Zillow from its inception, stretching back to 2005 when it was just a seed of an idea.… Read More

Zillow’s new iPhone app helps home shoppers get mortgage quotes on the go

Zillow’s mobile applications are some of the most frequently downloaded in the real estate industry. Now, it is adding a… Read More

Redfin CEO Kelman on IPO plans: ‘We’re not ready yet’

IPO fever is spreading once again through the tech ranks. And while Zillow.com recently filed, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman says don’t… Read More

Bursting at the seams at Bellevue HQ, Expedia inks lease next door

Expedia has outgrown its downtown Bellevue headquarters location in Tower 333, and as a result plans to expand into a… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff joins board of travel startup

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff has a lot on his plate these days, including positioning the Seattle online real estate company… Read More

Zillow.com selects “Z” for ticker symbol, trims Q1 net loss

Zillow.com plans to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the one letter ticker symbol Z when it expects to… Read More

Seattle daily deal site Zulily signs big lease for Sodo office building

We’ve been hearing rumors for weeks now about Zulily’s insane growth curve and aspirations for bigger offices. Now, word comes… Read More

Redfin cleans house, removes 50 partner agents including some who faked reviews

Call it a little Spring cleaning. Redfin announced on its corporate blog this week that it has removed 50 partner… Read More

Video game school picks Seattle Center for new campus

With companies such as Big Fish, PopCap, Nintendo, Microsoft and Valve, Seattle is a well established center for video game development.… Read More

HotPads

Time for A New Apartment? How Your Phone Can Help

It’s springtime and, in addition to tulips, baseball, and short sleeves, that means apartment-hunting time for many people. Traditionally, that… Read More

How Spencer Rascoff’s Tweets tossed us off the Zillow IPO trail

Team GeekWire loves nothing more than a good news tip. So, when a reader passed on a hot lead last… Read More

Curbed and Eater hit Seattle, dish scoops to real estate nerds, foodies

Seattle has long been a center of hyperlocal news experimentation, from gritty upstarts like MyBallard.com and The West Seattle Blog… Read More

Chart: Zillow is the third most visited real estate site, while Redfin cracks the top 20

This sure is timely. Just a few hours after Zillow.com announced its intentions of going public, Experian Hitwise released its… Read More

Zillow.com files to go public, beats Trulia to the punch

It has been a long dry spell. But a Seattle Internet company is finally getting ready to take the IPO… Read More

Seattle Art Museum sues MOD Systems over unpaid rent

Troubles continue to mount for MOD Systems. The Seattle Art Museum has filed a lawsuit against the maker of digital… Read More

The sniping continues: Trulia heralds itself as the top dog over Zillow in online real estate

Trulia CEO Pete Flint took a shot at his Seattle competitor Zillow.com last month, telling GeekWire that it was “just… Read More

Zillow.com makes its first buy: Online listing service Postlets

Zillow.com has pretty much grown on its own since Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink founded the company in 2005, preferring… Read More

‘Bill is the guy that made MS happen,’ and other top comments of the week

Paul Allen gets into some of the nitty-gritty details of the early days at Microsoft. Steve Ballmer receives a low… Read More

ThePlatform sets sail for new digs in downtown Seattle

ThePlatform, an online video company owned by Comcast, is moving from its longtime digs in the old Airborne Express building… Read More

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