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Zillow

Opendoor and MoxiWorks team up to arm real estate agents with cash offers for homes

Seattle real estate tech startup MoxiWorks is teaming up with leading iBuyer Opendoor in a new partnership to help agents… Read More

These are the cities where Redfin and Zillow are directly buying and selling the most homes

The so-called “iBuyer” movement is still young, but a new report sheds light on its growing impact on real estate.… Read More

Zillow Offers comes to Los Angeles, the largest city yet for real estate giant’s home sales division

Zillow Offers debuted in Los Angeles and neighboring Orange County today, the second largest housing market in the nation and… Read More

Zillow 2.0 is here: Home sales outpace real estate giant’s traditional businesses for first time

Well, that didn’t take long. Zillow Group’s home sales division now makes up the majority of the company’s business, just… Read More

Zillow Group stock spikes 12% as Q3 revenue tops $745M amid rapid expansion of Zillow Offers

Zillow Group nearly doubled its revenue in the third quarter as it invests heavily in the company’s home sales business.… Read More

IBM sues Zillow, accuses the real estate giant of building key features using Big Blue’s tech

IBM filed a lawsuit against Zillow this week, accusing the real estate giant of piggybacking off its patented technology to… Read More

Microsoft outpaces Amazon in Hired’s ‘Brand Health Report’ on where tech talent wants to work

Microsoft’s brand reputation is looking pretty healthy when it comes to what tech workers regard as desirable places to work.… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow vets launch marketing firm; Viacom exec joins Funko board; and more

— A trio of ex-Zillow employees today launched Kingston Marketing Group, a new communications and marketing firm based in Kingston,… Read More

Zillow and Redfin rival Opendoor unveils mortgage push as real estate powerhouses vie to control home sales

Opendoor, the well-funded San Francisco online real estate marketplace that buys and sells homes, is getting into mortgages, intensifying competition… Read More

Zillow Group slows hiring for mortgage division following delayed software rollout

Sometimes lost in Zillow Group’s surprising pivot to focus primarily on transforming how people buy and sell homes is its… Read More

Zillow Group’s big bet on home sales boosts company-wide revenue 84% to $600M in Q2

Zillow Group is roughly six months into its plan to focus primarily on buying and selling homes, and so far… Read More

Rapidly growing Zillow Offers direct home sales program opens in 15th market, with more to come

Zillow Group is betting its future on directly buying and selling homes, and it is rapidly expanding the service across… Read More

Fast-growing real estate heavyweight Compass raises $370M at $6.4B valuation

High-tech real estate brokerage Compass has a new mountain of cash to continue building out its technology platform and grow… Read More

Zillow Offers expands to Portland, its first Pacific Northwest market for direct home sales

Zillow Group is set to start buying houses in the Pacific Northwest for the first time. Zillow Offers, the service… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Zillow COO Amy Bohutinsky dives into venture capital; Amplero founder joins Zulily

— Amy Bohutinsky, the former chief operating officer of Zillow, has joined venture capital equity firm TCV, where she will… Read More

Zillow Zestimate

Zillow launches retooled Zestimate that uses AI to analyze photographs and ‘see’ value in homes

Zillow may have paid $1 million to the winners of its Zillow Prize, a competition aimed at improving its long-running… Read More

Podcast

A new era for home-buying: How Zillow, Redfin and their rivals plan to revolutionize real estate, again

The peak home-buying season is upon us, but buyers and sellers taking a fresh look at the market will see… Read More

Q&A: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on competing with Zillow, and the potential of real estate tech

Redfin is more than two years into what was once an experiment, buying homes from people, sprucing them up and… Read More

Zillow CEO Rich Barton wants to build ‘Microsoft Office for real estate’ by adding title, escrow and possibly moving services

Zillow Group’s shift into home sales and mortgages is just the beginning of a grander vision to control every aspect… Read More

Zillow 2.0 era begins: Real estate giant posts $454M in revenue in first quarter since major business shift

Zillow Group crushed projections for revenue but posted greater losses than expected amid rapid growth in its new home sales… Read More

Tech Moves: DocuSign CISO departs; Estately founder moves on; Zillow hires engineering leaders; and more

— DocuSign’s chief information security officer Vanessa Pegueros has left the company. Pegueros previously served as SVP of enterprise information… Read More

Spencer Rascoff

Spencer Rascoff reveals his post-Zillow life after longtime CEO departed real estate giant in February

Spencer Rascoff misses working side-by-side with his former colleagues every day. But it seems he’s enjoying post-Zillow life otherwise. Rascoff… Read More

Zillow launching ‘3D Home’ across U.S. and Canada to bring immersive tours to more sellers and buyers

Zillow wants more home sellers and buyers to be able to step into the immersive world of 360-degree home tours.… Read More

Zillow sues real estate rival Compass over non-compete violation and stolen intellectual property

Seattle-based Zillow Group filed two lawsuits Friday against real estate rival Compass, alleging that the SoftBank-backed high-tech brokerage stole Zillow… Read More

Zillow Group launches Home Loans business, tweaks website as pivot to home sales continues

Zillow Group today launched a Home Loans division, establishing another pillar of the company’s new identity of directly buying and… Read More

Huge funding rounds for Opendoor and Offerpad show how expensive Zillow’s bet on home sales could be

Buying and selling hundreds or even thousands of homes at the same time gets pretty expensive — just ask Opendoor… Read More

Seattle housing

Seattle is second toughest housing market in the U.S. for first-time buyers, Zillow reports

The days are warming up, but will Seattle’s housing market recapture its status as the nation’s hottest? For at least… Read More

Zillow scores key win in long-running copyright battle with real estate photography company VHT

A federal appeals court largely sided with Zillow in a decision late last week involving a long-running copyright battle with… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Zillow’s extreme makeover; Amazon’s big backpedal; and farewell, Dash Buttons

What the heck is going on at Zillow? We kick off this week’s episode of the GeekWire Podcast by analyzing… Read More

Zillow as mortgage lender: Real estate giant going ‘further down the funnel’ of buying a house

Thousands of would-be home buyers looking for a mortgage will soon have a new option: Zillow Group. The Seattle-based online… Read More

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