Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff is known as one of the hardest working dudes in Seattle tech. And that work ethic was on full display Tuesday night as Rascoff spoke to students and faculty as part of the Albers Executive Speaker Series at Seattle University. Rascoff shared a number of his startup secrets, expressing the management… Read More…
Things continue to move fast for Seattle-based Zillow, and now the online real estate company can add two Webby Awards to its resume. Competing in the real estate portion of the 17th annual Webby Awards, an Oscars-style bash for Internet innovation, creativity and other wacky stuff, Zillow won both the People’s Voice Award and Webby Winner… Read More…
Congratulations on your success, Jeff Bezos! You’ve become one of the most important innovators in the world. You’ve matched your vision with the hard work necessary to make ideas come to fruition. You’ve aligned yourself with people equally willing to start with a dream and work hard to achieve that dream. And now you’ve decided… Read More…
It is being called the “greenest building” on the planet. And it’s located right here in Seattle. Welcome to the Bullitt Center, a new six-story, 50,000-square-foot building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood that is designed to produce more energy than it consumes. Or, as the developer describes it, the building essentially works as its own… Read More…
Zillow continues to grow at a rapid clip, gobbling up more office space at its downtown Seattle headquarters in the Russell Investments Center. The company announced today that it plans to take over floors 33 and 34 at the Seattle skyscraper, adding about 45,000 square feet of space. It currently is located on floors 29… Read More…
Amazon.com continues to gobble up office space in its hometown, expanding with a new 10-year lease for about 140,000 square feet at the Metropolitan Park North building. The lease, which was signed last month, was reported today by The Seattle Times. The new space is located at 1220 Howell Street, and brokers tell the Times… Read More…
No wonder that Zillow is investing resources in mobile. The Seattle online real estate company says that 55 percent of visits now come from mobile devices, and that 89 homes were viewed per second on Zillow from a mobile device in March. (That compares to 75 homes per second in February). To make sure that home shoppers keep… Read More…
The U.S. real estate market is heating up, and Zillow is taking advantage of it. The Seattle online real estate company noted on its Web site today that it topped 50 million unique visitors in March — the first time that it has achieved that milestone. It also marked a 55 percent increase over the… Read More…
Earlier this week, Zillow chairman Rich Barton declared how the Seattle online real estate company is leading a revolution. Wall Street seems to be buying into that vision. Not only has the stock doubled in value in the past three months, several analysts have raised their price targets on the company. The stock is now… Read More…
Seattle online real estate startup Estately is expanding service to six states, marking a 10 percent increase in properties on the site. New additions include Arizona, South Carolina, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Ohio. The company, which partners with multiple listing services, now boasts nearly 700,000 listings. It also offers search features like the ability to… Read More…
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