Jul 13, 2017, 5:40 AM Key question in Redfin IPO: Will it be valued as a tech company or a real estate brokerage? Is Redfin a real estate brokerage or a tech company? That’s the key question as the Seattle company — originally… Read More
Jul 12, 2017, 12:00 PM What’s ahead for the historic UW-China tech school in the Seattle region as it prepares for 1st students This fall, the Global Innovation Exchange will welcome its first student cohort, representing the culmination of close to five years… Read More
Jul 12, 2017, 6:00 AM Photos: Qualtrics’ Seattle office has grown so fast it is now the company’s ‘co-headquarters’ Two years after “experience management” company Qualtrics set down roots in Seattle, the office has grown rapidly enough to become… Read More
Jul 10, 2017, 4:02 PM Permit filings point to another Amazon expansion in highly visible office building along I-5 Even as Amazon builds out millions of square feet of new offices in the Seattle area to accommodate its rapidly… Read More
Jul 8, 2017, 10:00 AM Inside the luxury apartments in the $1.2B Lincoln Square expansion: 10-year leases, $25k/month penthouses and a ‘tech concierge’ Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts… Read More
Jul 7, 2017, 1:03 PM Hip-hop star Ryan Lewis using epic 20-minute video to help sell his Seattle home for $7.45M Ryan Lewis, the famed DJ and producer who rose to hip-hop fame alongside Macklemore, has busted out on his own… Read More
Jul 6, 2017, 12:40 PM Redfin enters ‘peculiar’ Manhattan real estate market in New York City as it preps to go public As Redfin prepares to go public, it is making in-roads in the nation’s most unique and expensive real estate market:… Read More
Jul 5, 2017, 2:05 PM Ex-Amazon manager’s modular, smart housing startup Blokable is raising cash Blokable, a Seattle startup focused on manufactured housing, with goals of speeding up production, cutting costs for builders and making… Read More
Jul 3, 2017, 10:30 AM Why is Redfin running its site from a single data center without a backup facility? Redfin surprised a few people Friday afternoon when it filed for an initial public offering, but inside the standard boilerplate… Read More
Jun 30, 2017, 5:15 PM Redfin testing ‘Redfin Now’ service that lets it buy and resell homes directly with customers In Redfin’s IPO filing that posted Friday, the company revealed a new service it is testing called Redfin Now that… Read More
Jun 30, 2017, 2:40 PM Redfin files for IPO as online real estate company seeks to raise up to $100M Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin filed for an initial public offering on Friday with U.S. regulators and will seek to… Read More
Jun 28, 2017, 2:18 PM Redfin data shows more homebuyers making offers without seeing property in person The hot housing markets in Seattle and others like it across the U.S. are leading more homebuyers to bypass the… Read More
Jun 27, 2017, 9:32 AM Booming Seattle maintains title as nation’s hottest housing market for 8th month in a row Home values in Seattle continued their steady ascent in April, according to the latest Case-Shiller national home price report. Seattle’s… Read More
Jun 26, 2017, 2:52 PM Zillow threatens architecture critic who runs ‘McMansion Hell’ website over her use of images Update: Follow this link for the latest developments on this story. The creator of the popular architecture criticism website “McMansion… Read More
Jun 23, 2017, 2:19 PM Judge partially overturns $8.3M copyright verdict against Zillow, orders new trial A copyright battle between Zillow and VHT Inc. over photographs took a sharp turn this week when U.S. District Judge… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 9:00 AM Co-working company Industrious expanding to Seattle with new office near Amazon’s headquarters Another co-working company is coming to Seattle. Industrious, a New York-based company that bills itself as a “high-end” co-working provider,… Read More
Jun 20, 2017, 9:46 AM Seattle makes list of housing markets with a big increase in the number of million-dollar homes With a shortage of available homes for sale and bidding wars driving up the price on whatever does hit the… Read More
Jun 16, 2017, 3:46 PM Report: Facebook-owned Oculus expands Seattle presence with new office lease Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, has upped its presence in the Seattle area. Citing two sources who… Read More
Jun 15, 2017, 3:00 PM How this tech startup is helping 7 homeowners join forces to sell their properties at a premium In November, Jane and Andy Freeman received an unexpected letter in the mail. A company called CityBldr reached out to notify them… Read More
Jun 15, 2017, 10:16 AM Seattle’s ‘Manhattan moment’: Luxury condo preview is a house party for a changing city The Rolls-Royce and the Ferrari parked in front of a real estate sales office in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood Wednesday night were… Read More
Jun 15, 2017, 8:42 AM Newly leased Amazon office building in Seattle sells for $330M to German investors Another Amazon building has sold for big bucks. This time around it’s a building called Midtown21. Amazon announced its lease… Read More
Jun 15, 2017, 7:00 AM Airbnb cements Seattle presence, establishing permanent office with room for 300 people Airbnb is putting down permanent roots in Seattle with a major new office that makes the vacation rentals company the… Read More
Jun 14, 2017, 3:58 PM Expedia clears major planning milestone in preparation for 2019 HQ move to Seattle Expedia just cleared an important permitting milestone with the city of Seattle as it prepares to move the majority of… Read More
Jun 14, 2017, 10:15 AM Smart home startup Kirio’s first product works with pretty much any device, including the kitchen sink Seattle area smart home startup Kirio just released its first product, and it aims to take home automation to a new… Read More
Jun 13, 2017, 8:31 AM Amazon Go job posting points to potential expansion of checkout-free retail concept Amazon is still refining its checkout-free grocery experience, Amazon Go, but there are new signs that the online retail giant… Read More
Jun 11, 2017, 10:00 AM Seattle-area homebuilder now including smart home tech packages standard in all future projects It wasn’t long ago that smart home technology — such as connected lighting and thermostats — was a luxury only… Read More
Jun 7, 2017, 12:27 PM Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’ Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out… Read More
Jun 6, 2017, 4:19 PM Portland approves first wood high-rise building in U.S. with 12-story project called Framework A 12-story, wood-construction high rise in Portland will be the first of its kind in the country after the project, called… Read More
Jun 2, 2017, 9:44 AM Sphere of influence: 46-story tower near Amazon campus will have domed top reminiscent of tech giant’s new landmark They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Amazon, get ready to be flattered. The idea for the… Read More
May 30, 2017, 10:28 AM Big demand, little supply: Seattle’s hot housing market gets hotter with highest price gains in U.S. Hopeful home buyers in the Seattle area are up against the toughest purchasing prospects in the country as the market again posted… Read More
