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
Zillow Group is resuming its Zillow Offers home-buying business, reflecting the company’s confidence in real estate despite the ongoing global pandemic. The Seattle-based company said it will restart Zillow Offers… Read More
The Seattle real estate tech companies that have spent the past several years reporting on how attractive and hot tech hubs like Seattle, Silicon Valley and elsewhere are have shifted… Read More
Zillow Group is looking to inject some cash into its business. The Seattle real estate giant on Wednesday announced pricing for stock and debt offerings that will provide up to… Read More
Rich Barton sees light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. The Zillow Group CEO expressed optimism for the future of real estate despite a global pandemic that has slowed… Read More
Real estate may feel the effect of COVID-19 until the end of 2021 — and possibly even longer. Zillow Group published its latest housing market projections Monday, outlining three scenarios… Read More
Zillow Group is embracing WFH. The Seattle-based real estate company told its employees Friday that they can work from home until at least the end of 2020. The policy reflects… Read More
Buyers, seek opportunity. Sellers, hold off. That’s the advice from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman as questions swirl about the real estate market amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with… Read More
Former Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board on Tuesday. The move comes just over a year since Rascoff stepped down as Zillow’s CEO.… Read More
“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” Warren Buffett uses this phrase in shareholder letters to describe how companies get exposed during less-than-ideal circumstances.… Read More
Zillow Group announced Monday that it will temporarily pause home buying through its Zillow Offers business in response to stay-at-home directives from various locales related to the coronavirus crisis and… Read More
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Zillow Group is offering its Premier Agents a 50% discount off their next monthly bill, starting March 23. The discount for Premier Agents, who… Read More
The cities of Las Vegas, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte and Atlanta all have one thing in common — they were the most popular markets for the so-called iBuyers like Zillow, Redfin,… Read More
Almost exactly a year ago, Zillow Group embarked on a fundamental re-imagination of the company shifting from real estate media and advertising to buying and selling homes directly. And so… Read More
Zillow Group applauded a ruling from a federal judge in an 18-month-old patent lawsuit that seeks to bar the real estate giant from using mobile search apps to help customers… Read More
Zillow Group launched a new tool Thursday to help people experiencing homelessness in Seattle connect with affordable housing options. The tool is hosted on Zillow’s website and allows landlords with… Read More
Seattle real estate tech startup MoxiWorks is teaming up with leading iBuyer Opendoor in a new partnership to help agents get cash offers for their clients’ homes. Opendoor, like Seattle’s… Read More
The so-called “iBuyer” movement is still young, but a new report sheds light on its growing impact on real estate. Redfin released its first-ever quarterly report focused on iBuyers —… Read More
Zillow Offers debuted in Los Angeles and neighboring Orange County today, the second largest housing market in the nation and the biggest yet for the real estate giant’s direct home… Read More
Well, that didn’t take long. Zillow Group’s home sales division now makes up the majority of the company’s business, just 19 months after it started and nine months after the… Read More
Zillow Group nearly doubled its revenue in the third quarter as it invests heavily in the company’s home sales business. The Seattle company reported revenue of $745 million for its… Read More
IBM filed a lawsuit against Zillow this week, accusing the real estate giant of piggybacking off its patented technology to build key parts of its home value estimation and search… Read More
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
— A trio of ex-Zillow employees today launched Kingston Marketing Group, a new communications and marketing firm based in Kingston, Wash. The three partners include: Katie Curnutte, an 11-year Zillow… 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
Sometimes lost in Zillow Group’s surprising pivot to focus primarily on transforming how people buy and sell homes is its evolution into a mortgage lender. The company jumped into mortgages… Read More
Zillow Group is roughly six months into its plan to focus primarily on buying and selling homes, and so far the move has supercharged growth for the real estate giant… Read More
Zillow Group is betting its future on directly buying and selling homes, and it is rapidly expanding the service across the U.S. Zillow Offers, the service that lets customers go… 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
Zillow Group is set to start buying houses in the Pacific Northwest for the first time. Zillow Offers, the service that lets customers request cash offers for their homes directly… Read More