Articles about Homes

Zillow expands AI home search capabilities in tech race among major real estate portals

Zillow says users of its AI-powered residential real-estate search feature will be able reference additional criteria when searching for homes… Read More

Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton on the ‘great reshuffling,’ and why he’s optimistic about it

In mid-March, as awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country, Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton faced a tough… Read More

How does world’s richest man renovate? Floor plans reveal Jeff Bezos’ big ideas for $23M D.C. mansion

If Jeff Bezos is going to be a Washingtonian in the D.C. sense of the word, apparently he’s going to… Read More

Seattle’s housing market is growing twice as fast as San Francisco’s — signaling a tech exodus

Seattle’s housing market is seeing the fastest appreciation in home values in the country, according to the latest data from… Read More

Redfin expanding its 1 percent listing fee for home sellers to 18 new markets

Redfin is expanding its incentive aimed at getting sellers to list their homes with the Seattle-based real estate company’s agents,… 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

Zillow Group to unveil RealEstate.com, a new online service targeted at millennials

Zillow Group already operates a number of online real estate brands: Trulia, StreetEasy, HotPads and Naked Apartments. But apparently that’s… Read More

Redfin moves into mortgages, will issue home loans in latest bid to upend real estate industry

Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate brokerage, announced the launch of Redfin Mortgage on Thursday in an effort to service its customers from… Read More

Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty launches ‘Geek Home of the Week’ with GeekWire

Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty is launching a new interactive, sponsored portal on GeekWire called “Geek Home of the Week,” giving readers of… Read More

Zillow says climate change could leave 2M U.S. homes underwater — literally

The U.S. housing market is finally recovering from the Great Recession — but now comes the tide of an equally insidious threat:… Read More

Zillow upgrades the Zestimate, promises lower error rate with better algorithm

Real estate media company Zillow is upgrading its flagship home valuation feature, the Zestimate, saying it has been able to reduce its national… Read More

Zillow to become exclusive provider for HGTV’s FrontDoor

Zillow announced today that beginning in April, the Seattle online real estate company will become the exclusive provider of listings for… Read More

Northwest MLS releases its first mobile apps — but not for us

Anyone who has purchased a home over the last couple years has probably experienced the phenomenon of knowing more than… Read More

Zillow discontinues listing feed: Redfin says it is not ‘crazy about the decision’

The shifting sands in the online real estate industry continue to morph. The latest development involves Zillow which recently notified… Read More