A mirror image? Canadian real estate brokerage accused of ripping off Estately

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Sutton WestCoast Realty, one of the largest real estate brokerages in Canada, has received a cease-and-desist letter asking that the brokerage take down a Web site that allegedly mirrors one from Seattle online real estate upstart Estately. The two companies had been partners for the past three years, with Sutton WestCoast using Estately’s map-based technology… Read More…

Q&A: Findwell’s Kevin Lisota on how tech is changing homebuying, and how it isn’t

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Our guest on a recent episode of the GeekWire radio show and podcast was Seattle tech veteran Kevin Lisota, the CEO of real estate startup Findwell. We talked about how technology has been changing the process of buying and selling homes (and how it hasn’t), and explored the recent dustup over real estate listing services such as… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: Microsoft vs. Google, Facebook IPO, and a geek’s guide to real estate

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This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about Amazon’s acquisition of Seattle startup TeachStreet, Microsoft’s ad campaign against Google, and the juicy details of Facebook’s finances, as revealed by its IPO filing this week. We’re joined in the studio by Seattle tech veteran Kevin Lisota, the CEO of real estate startup… Read More…