Microsoft’s brand reputation is looking pretty healthy when it comes to what tech workers regard as desirable places to work. The findings are part of the “2019 Global Brand Health… Read More
Opendoor, the well-funded San Francisco online real estate marketplace that buys and sells homes, is getting into mortgages, intensifying competition with Seattle rivals Zillow and Redfin. Opendoor has spent the… Read More
Redfin stock is soaring after the tech-powered real estate brokerage sailed past analyst expectations and projected a huge spike in revenue in the current quarter. Redfin’s confident projections and its… Read More
High-tech real estate brokerage Compass has a new mountain of cash to continue building out its technology platform and grow both its East and West Coast engineering hubs. Compass today… Read More
Homeowners looking to sell their homes in Phoenix and Atlanta can now get a cash offer on Redfin’s website. However, it’s not Redfin they’ll be selling to. As part of… Read More
The peak home-buying season is upon us, but buyers and sellers taking a fresh look at the market will see a much different landscape for real estate technology than they… Read More
Redfin is more than two years into what was once an experiment, buying homes from people, sprucing them up and then selling them, and it has learned some lessons along… Read More
Redfin quietly launched a new feature that lets homebuyers without an agent make offers on homes directly through its website, bringing back an initiative the company first tried more than… Read More
Redfin’s losses in the first quarter grew faster than revenue, but the tech-powered real estate brokerage met or beat Wall Street expectations on key metrics. Revenue: The company reported $110.1 million… Read More
Seattle has gone to the dogs. Two Seattle-area tech companies — Rover, the network of dog walkers and pet sitters, and Redfin, the real estate brokerage — teamed up to… Read More
Sujal Patel, a longtime Seattle-area investor and co-founder of Isilon Systems, has joined Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture capital firm Defy Partners as part of its “sage” program that offers a… Read More
Bellevue, Wash., get ready to experience the Amazon effect. With the tech giant possibly cooling on Seattle and focusing its regional growth plans on the nearby city across Lake Washington,… Read More
Two months after predicting that tech hubs like Seattle could be in for a big real estate cooldown in 2019, the tech-powered brokerage Redfin issued a report Wednesday stating that… Read More
Redfin’s desire to compete in every area of the real estate transaction appears to be paying off as the tech-powered brokerage sailed past Wall Street expectations for the fourth quarter… Read More
Pro.com — the Seattle startup that aims to transform the general contractor industry — had a pretty good 2018, and 2019 could be even bigger with expansion on the horizon… Read More
Redfin is coming to Canada in the next few months, marking the first international expansion for the tech-powered real estate brokerage. Redfin plans to launch a national Canadian real estate… Read More
Redfin and Zillow will face the “first serious test” of their new direct home sales operations in the midst of a slowing real estate market. RELATED: Redfin predicts big real estate… Read More
The last couple of years have been rough for home buyers — specifically on the West Coast, where an influx of well-heeled techies has upped competition for limited options. But… Read More
Carlos Campoy is the new CFO at Alder BioPharmaceuticals. The Bothell, Wash.-based drug company is developing eptinezumab, an antibody-based migraine treatment that’s currently undergoing a pivotal phase 3 trial. Campoy… Read More
—Cosmetic treatment review site RealSelf is lawyering up with Josh King as the company’s first general counsel. King is leaving legal service marketplace Avvo after more than a decade of leading… Read More
The housing markets in Northern Virginia and New York City — winners of the Amazon HQ2/3 sweepstakes — are in for a jolt. Redfin reports that search results in the… Read More
Redfin beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and profits in the third quarter, but its stock is falling in after-hours trading. The tech-powered real estate brokerage reported net profits of… Read More
When Seattle-based online real estate giants Zillow Group and Redfin jumped into directly buying and selling homes to the consumer, the real estate market was blazing hot. Now things are… Read More
Glenn Kelman has been trying to fix the ever-frustrating process of buying a house for more than 15 years as the CEO of Redfin, and he says the job is… Read More
Daryl Fairweather is joining Redfin as chief economist, bringing with her wide-ranging credentials that include studying behavioral science at Amazon and interviewing foreclosed homeowners for the Federal Reserve during the… Read More
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For years, the number of available homes in hot markets like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco has been virtually zero, but in recent months that has changed. More houses are… Read More
Glenn Kelman is not a fan of this “era of entitled CEOs.” It’s basically impossible for a top leader to get fired these days, Kelman argued in an appearance at… Read More
Opendoor, a San Francisco online marketplace that buys and sells houses, has acquired online home buying startup Open Listings, intensifying its competition with Seattle real estate giants Zillow and Redfin. In… Read More
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