— Loni Mahanta, formerly vice president of government relations & public policy for Zillow Group, joined NFT marketplace OpenSea in a similar role. OpenSea uses blockchain technology to sell NFTs,… Read More
Zillow Group may be ducking out of the home-buying business. But now it has a new plan to make more money off real estate transactions. The Seattle company revealed a… Read More
Now that the dust has settled, we can ask how could the smart and savvy team at Zillow Group, armed with cutting-edge AI methods and mountains of data, lose half… Read More
Zillow Group continues to cut staff as part of the company’s decision to end its home buying business. The Seattle real estate giant said in November that it would lay… Read More
— Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. She was most recently vice president of digital design at Nike. A Google alum,… Read More
Looking at GeekWire’s most-read stories for 2021, this series of headlines stands out as a symbol of the past year, not just for Amazon but for the world at large.… Read More
Trulia, one of Seattle-based Zillow Group’s real estate brands, says it will phase out the use of neighborhood crime data on home listings early next year, citing the potential for… Read More
Zillow Group says it is making good progress unloading homes it owns, announcing today that it has sold or is under contract to sell more than 50% of the homes… Read More
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Seattle-based Zillow Group concealed problems in its home-buying business from shareholders before abruptly shutting the unit down two weeks ago. The suit, filed… Read More
The downfall of Zillow’s iBuying business is a reminder of the downsides of relying too much on automation and machine learning algorithms at this stage in the evolution of technology.… Read More
Zillow Group plans to lay off 47 workers in Washington state as part of the 2,000 company employees who will lose their jobs following the decision this week to shut… Read More
Zillow Group’s surprising decision this week to back out of iBuying raised questions about the overall viability of the tech-fueled home buying offering for other companies. At least one competitor… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a column written by GeekWire co-founder John Cook. “Why bunt?” That was the rhetorical question Zillow Group CEO and co-founder Rich Barton asked a packed crowd… Read More
Zillow Group co-founder and CEO Rich Barton admitted on Tuesday that it was a “tough day” when the powerhouse real estate tech company announced plans to exit the home flipping… Read More
Just because a business process can be automated, doesn’t necessarily mean it should be automated. And maybe — just maybe — there are components of business that are not better… Read More
Zillow Group’s ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end. The Seattle online real estate giant said today it will… Read More
A day ahead of its third quarter earnings report, Zillow Group’s stock took a hit on Wall Street as a new analyst report highlighted how many homes purchased by the… Read More
Analysts with Wedbush slashed their 12-month price target for Zillow Group by more than 40% following the company’s decision to temporarily pause purchasing new contracts to buy homes via its… Read More
Zillow Group announced Monday that it will not sign any new contracts to buy homes via its home-buying and selling service for the rest of this year due to “backlog… Read More
The future of how we work, where we work, how that work is measured and even how we get to work has always loomed large in the tech community, but… Read More
It was really nice to be back. The GeekWire Summit returned to Seattle and took a page out of our shared reality, going hybrid this week with an in-person and virtual… Read More
On a day when the biggest social media company on the planet went offline for several hours, Spencer Rascoff talked about why he’s been building a small social newcomer around… Read More
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) sent a letter on Thursday to the FTC that raises antitrust questions related to the residential real estate industry and specifically… Read More
Seattle-based real estate company Zillow Group reported $1.3 billion in revenue Thursday for the second quarter, slightly beating analyst’s expectations. Expected revenue was $1.28 billion, with earnings per share of… Read More
Seattle real estate giant Zillow Group announced new tweaks to its Zestimate tool that provides home value data on more than 104 million properties. The company now uses machine learning-based… Read More
The plywood is coming down, restaurants that survived are adding hours and vehicle traffic in Seattle is growing from the ghost-town levels of one year ago. But as downtown, Belltown,… Read More
The news: Seattle-based real estate company Redfin is forecasting record U.S. home sales of $2.53 trillion this year, saying in a report Tuesday that the 17% year-over-year gain would be… Read More
Zillow Group Q1 earnings: The Seattle real estate giant beat expectations with $1.2 billion in revenue, up 8%, and earnings per share of $0.47. Analysts expected revenue of $1.1 billion… Read More
The news: Seattle-based Zillow Group responded to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Austin-based real estate startup Real Estate Exchange in March that accused Zillow of anticompetitive behavior related to how… Read More
After taking a hit during the beginning of the pandemic, iBuying is ramping up with dozens of companies racing to streamline home offers online. Seattle giants Redfin and Zillow Group… Read More