In mid-March, as awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country, Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton faced a tough business decision: Turn off the company’s prized new revenue engine,… Read More
If Jeff Bezos is going to be a Washingtonian in the D.C. sense of the word, apparently he’s going to have to contend with the Washingtonian, a magazine serving the… Read More
Seattle’s housing market is seeing the fastest appreciation in home values in the country, according to the latest data from Zillow Group. The real estate data powerhouse released its September… Read More
Redfin is expanding its incentive aimed at getting sellers to list their homes with the Seattle-based real estate company’s agents, bringing its 1-percent listing fee to 18 new U.S. markets,… Read More
Redfin went public Friday morning in the Seattle region’s first IPO of the year, and on this special edition of the GeekWire Podcast, we analyze the tech-powered real estate brokerage’s… Read More
Zillow Group already operates a number of online real estate brands: Trulia, StreetEasy, HotPads and Naked Apartments. But apparently that’s not enough for the Seattle-based company, which today said it… Read More
Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate brokerage, announced the launch of Redfin Mortgage on Thursday in an effort to service its customers from start to finish in the home-buying process. The move elicited… Read More
Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty is launching a new interactive, sponsored portal on GeekWire called “Geek Home of the Week,” giving readers of the Pacific Northwest’s leading technology news site a glimpse into some… Read More
The U.S. housing market is finally recovering from the Great Recession — but now comes the tide of an equally insidious threat: Climate change. New Zillow research shows that unchecked climate change could leave… Read More
Real estate media company Zillow is upgrading its flagship home valuation feature, the Zestimate, saying it has been able to reduce its national median error rate to 6 percent from 8 percent, and improve… Read More
Zillow announced today that beginning in April, the Seattle online real estate company will become the exclusive provider of listings for HGTV’s FrontDoor, the cable channel’s home-related media content website. Agents… Read More
Anyone who has purchased a home over the last couple years has probably experienced the phenomenon of knowing more than their real estate agent about the available homes in a… Read More
The shifting sands in the online real estate industry continue to morph. The latest development involves Zillow which recently notified Redfin and other real estate sites that it will no… Read More