Amazon’s future in Seattle uncertain as neighboring city looks more and more like HQ2 For years, Amazon has gobbled up office space in Seattle at a breakneck pace, creating a red-hot commercial real estate… Read More
Appeals court sides with Zillow in lawsuit over Zestimate accuracy A federal appeals court sided with Zillow in a long-running lawsuit over the accuracy and marketing of the real estate… Read More
Amazon’s birthplace for sale: Home where Jeff Bezos started company listed for nearly $1.5M Silicon Valley might have the HP Garage, but Seattle has the Amazon Mailbox. Amazon’s first home, a residential property at… Read More
Facebook reveals size of its Seattle-area footprint, confirms mysterious Oculus ‘Building X’ Facebook has grown as fast as any company in the Seattle area in recent years, but it has done so… Read More
Meet the ‘Zillow Prize’ winners who get $1M and bragging rights for beating the Zestimate If the winners of the Zillow Prize decide to spend their $1 million winnings on a new house, at least… Read More
Facebook scoops up yet another Seattle-area office building, continuing blistering growth UPDATE: Facebook confirmed that it has leased 338,000 square feet in the Block 16 building. Original story below Facebook is starting… Read More
Calendar Picks: Seattle Opera and GeekWire present panel on the ‘flawed brilliance’ of Steve Jobs Did you know Seattle Opera is getting ready to put on a show all about the late Apple co-founder Steve… Read More
Pro.com lands Redfin as an investor and potential partner in $33M round as it aims to revolutionize general contracting Pro.com — the Seattle startup that aims to transform the general contractor industry — had a pretty good 2018, and… Read More
Another Pioneer Square Labs spinout: Remarkably targets commercial real estate with marketing tech When Erina Malarkey looks at how commercial real estate stakeholders are spending money on marketing efforts, she’s in disbelief. “You… Read More
With another new office lease for Amazon, this Seattle-area city is almost out of downtown space Amazon will take another high rise tower in Bellevue, Wash., according to a real estate brokerage report, and because of… Read More
Redfin embarks on 1st international expansion, coming to Canada later this year Redfin is coming to Canada in the next few months, marking the first international expansion for the tech-powered real estate… Read More
A better Zestimate? Zillow ready to award $1M prize to team that beat its home-valuation tool Almost two years and more than 3,800 teams later, Zillow has a winner in the $1 million competition to improve… Read More
Seattle startup Lubn wins CES Innovation Award for smart key box LAS VEGAS — From a laundry-folding robot to Alexa-enabled mirrors, smart home technology is all the rage at the 2019… Read More
Inside New Engen’s new digs: Seattle marketing startup doubles office space amidst rapid growth New Engen spent more than two years in the shadows honing its digital marketing platforms, before pulling back the curtain on… Read More
Housing cooldown poses ‘1st serious test’ for new Redfin and Zillow direct home-buying programs Redfin and Zillow will face the “first serious test” of their new direct home sales operations in the midst of… Read More
Indeed job search engine scoops up big new Seattle space, doubling presence with major office deal Indeed, the online job search engine, has leased a huge new office space in a flashy new tower under construction… Read More
Planning documents give 1st look at Amazon’s Nashville ‘Operations Center of Excellence’ project Amazon’s plans for a “Operations Center of Excellence” in Nashville are starting to take shape. New plans submitted to Nashville’s… Read More
T-Mobile unveils plans for $160M dramatic refresh of its headquarters campus T-Mobile today unveiled plans for a major renovation project that the company says will transform its Bellevue, Wash. headquarters and… Read More
Vacation rental company Vacasa moves deeper into big cities with new apartment leasing offering Vacasa today unveiled a new program to add apartments and condos in big cities to its growing vacation rental platform.… Read More
There go the neighborhoods: Home searches spike in new Amazon HQ cities as tech giant reveals expansion plans The housing markets in Northern Virginia and New York City — winners of the Amazon HQ2/3 sweepstakes — are in… Read More
How will the cooling housing market affect Zillow and Redfin’s new direct home sale programs? When Seattle-based online real estate giants Zillow Group and Redfin jumped into directly buying and selling homes to the consumer,… Read More
Facebook set for major expansion of Seattle engineering center with huge new office leases Facebook is dramatically expanding its engineering center in Seattle, leasing a huge chunk of office space in the South Lake… Read More
Will Amazon HQ2 mean relief for Seattle’s frenzied housing market? Redfin thinks so Seattle home prices have been soaring for years, pitting buyers against each other in fierce competition as the city’s tech… Read More
Facebook hiring at record pace, adds more than 10k people to headcount in one year Facebook is making regular headlines for expanding its footprint with big new office leases in the Seattle region, and new… Read More
Building X? Facebook reportedly plans major expansion of Oculus campus in Seattle suburbs Facebook appears to be eyeing even more expansion in Redmond, Wash., where it has amassed a sprawling campus near Microsoft’s… Read More
Facebook inks two more leases in Bellevue, as tech companies hedge their bets across Seattle region Facebook already has a large presence in Seattle’s urban core, but the company is increasingly expanding its operation to other… Read More
Seattle is the nation’s fastest growing tech hub, study says, as Bay Area engineering centers continue to expand No city has added more tech jobs in the last two years than Seattle, according to a new report, as… Read More
The Riveter goes east: Inside the female-focused co-working company’s newest space The Riveter has opened its largest Seattle-area location, in Bellevue, Wash. The company, which operates a network of female-focused co-working… Read More
Q&A: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on the biggest problem in real estate, entitled CEOs and ‘America’s real enemy’ Glenn Kelman has been trying to fix the ever-frustrating process of buying a house for more than 15 years as… Read More
Inside Niantic’s Seattle-area engineering office, the future of Pokémon Go is taking shape When throngs of Pokémon Go fanatics took over Downtown Bellevue Park two summers ago during the height of the augmented… Read More
