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Zillow

Facebook ventures into Zillow’s territory with targeted real estate advertising

Facebook has launched its first ad product designed specifically for residential real estate brokerages. “Dynamic Ads for Real Estate,” first… Read More

Zillow data: Seattle has 3rd largest homeless population in U.S., as rising rents take a toll

Rents are at all-time highs in tech hubs like Seattle, and new data from Zillow show how rent hikes in… Read More

Podcast

Podcast: All about the Redfin IPO, and what’s next for Seattle’s newest public company

Redfin went public Friday morning in the Seattle region’s first IPO of the year, and on this special edition of… Read More

Redfin vs. Zillow: Comparing the two real estate powerhouses at the time of their IPOs

Redfin and Zillow are close neighbors in Seattle, but they’ve not always gotten along. The two companies have vastly different… Read More

Learn how three experts are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to cloud computing

This time, it seems like it’s actually going to happen. We’ve been hearing promises about how artificial intelligence and machine… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Would you hire a realtor on Amazon? Plus, Seattle’s tech diversity problems

Just three words on an Amazon placeholder page was enough to set off a frenzy of speculation and send real… Read More

Redfin house

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

Zillow shares slump as Amazon webpage hints at expansion into real estate referrals

Investors get nervous every time a certain Seattle-based e-commerce giant eyes a new market and this time Zillow is the… Read More

Zillow Group makes first investment, leads $10M round for augmented reality home design app

Zillow Group is not only a leading online real estate portal, but now the company can call itself an investor,… Read More

Glenn Kelman

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

Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley reunites with Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff to talk ‘insane curiosity’ and finding good leaders

Bill Gurley, the Benchmark venture capitalist who served for 10 years on the board of directors at Zillow Group, reunited… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: NASA’s super-quiet supersonic jet and Zillow battles McMansion Hell architecture blog

You don’t hear many sonic booms these days, for good reason — commercial supersonic planes, which can travel incredibly fast while… Read More

McMansion Hell

Zillow drops complaint against ‘McMansion Hell’ blog after backlash over copyright claim

The architecture criticism blog McMansion Hell is back up and running days after a threatening cease-and-desist letter from Zillow Group… Read More

McMansion Hell

‘McMansion Hell’ blogger says site will return, fighting Zillow’s copyright claim with help from Electronic Frontier Foundation

Update: Follow this link for the latest developments on this story.  The Tumblr blogger who took down her popular website… Read More

Seattle housing

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

McMansion Hell

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

Zillow offices

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

Satya Nadella

Leaders of top tech companies land on Glassdoor’s list of the 100 highest-rated CEOs

CEOs of some of the world’s top tech companies are feeling the love today, thanks to a new list from… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Zillow exec Chloe Harford finds new home at OfferUp; Exec in charge of Amazon Go joins Opendoor; etc.

Longtime Zillow executive Chloe Harford is leaving the real estate tech company to join OfferUp as the company’s new vice president of… Read More

How to conjure up your future: Zillow and Expedia co-founder Rich Barton’s advice to UW computer science grads

Rich Barton, the Zillow and Expedia co-founder, drew inspiration from Bill Gates, JFK, an ancient Greek myth and the movie… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow CFO joins Apptio board, Starbucks SVP joins Salesforce as communications chief, and more

— Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash. company that makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments, has added Zillow… Read More

Check out this real estate: Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff shows off remodel of San Francisco office

Like a post straight out of Zillow Digs, Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff showed off a little remodeling of his… Read More

Zillow Prize

Zillow announces $1M prize for anyone who can improve the algorithm for its Zestimate

The Zillow Zestimate, that much-debated, computer-generated home valuation tool, has been a fixture of the Seattle-based real estate media company… Read More

Zillow Instant Offers

Zillow ‘Instant Offers’ launches in two cities to test quick-and-easy option for home sellers

Zillow has waded into the complicated and sometimes lengthy process of selling a home by launching a new product on… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg talks working with Zuckerberg, her all-time favorite post and more on Spencer Rascoff’s podcast

Sheryl Sandberg, the influential chief operating officer of Facebook and best-selling author, is the latest guest to chat with Zillow CEO… Read More

Real estate lawyer sues Zillow, calls Zestimate a ‘tremendous roadblock’ to selling her home

Since its inception, Zillow’s home-value calculator, know as the “Zestimate” has been one of the most controversial features of the… Read More

Zillow Group posts record $245.8M in revenue, up 32%, says it’s on track for first $1B year

Zillow Group, the Seattle-based real media company, posted a 32 percent increase in first-quarter revenue, to $245.8 million, and beat Wall… Read More

RealEstate.com

Zillow Group launches RealEstate.com to target first-time home buyers, with a focus on budget

Grabbing and keeping the attention of millennials online these days is a challenge for any company. But when it comes to… Read More

Zillow dropping manual listings as it seeks to heal relationship with Seattle listing service

Zillow today is ending a feature that let brokers manually add their home listings to the Seattle real estate company’s… Read More

Filing shows what Zillow pays for CEO’s air commute from L.A. to Seattle

When Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff bought a $20 million Los Angeles home, 1,000 miles from the company’s Seattle headquarters, he… Read More

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