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Seattle startup Nexme to be acquired by new real estate services company Finaya

GeekWire

Nexme , a Seattle-based startup that helps streamline tours for prospective homebuyers, announced Thursday it will be acquired by Finaya , a new real estate services company out of Silicon Valley. It raised a $500,000 seed round in 2020 and participated in WTIA’s Founder Cohort Program.

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Cyber and Privacy Risks for Real Estate Enterprises

SecureWorld News

The integration of technology and automation, and related collection, use, and sharing of information into everyday business practices presents an enormous opportunity for efficiency and precision, especially in the real estate sector. Real estate portfolios are uniquely exposed to cyber-physical damage risk?

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Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes conducts more layoffs amid ‘worsening industry headwinds’

GeekWire

Flyhomes Photo) Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes has conducted another round of layoffs as the company faces what it calls “persistent and worsening industry headwinds.” It provides a Buy Before You Sell program that helps sellers buy and move into their next home before selling their current property.

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Real estate startup acquisition: EasyKnock buys home maintenance company Onder

GeekWire

Onder Photo) New York-based home-buying company EasyKnock acquired Seattle home maintenance startup Onder , combining two residential real estate-focused tech businesses. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Jarred Kessler , EasyKnock offers a “ sell and stay ” program.

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Seattle startup Flyhomes lays off employees for third time amid real estate headwinds

GeekWire

Flyhomes Photo) Real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the third time in a year, citing an effort to focus on profitability amid the broader housing market downturn. Seattle real estate tech companies including Redfin , Zillow, Loftium, and Inspectify have also trimmed their workforces.

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Real estate has gone meta

Vox

In November, a company sold a tract of virtual real estate for about $2.5 This mostly fictional, virtual world is getting hot like a real estate market. One of the first companies to get into the digital real estate business is Metaverse Group, which operates a virtual world called Decentraland.

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How Zillow Group is thinking about AI and the future of real estate

GeekWire

Zillow CTO David Beitel was one of the first executive leaders at the real estate giant. In 2006 the online real estate giant debuted the “ Zestimate ,” an algorithm that uses statistical and machine learning models to estimate the value of homes. Zillow Group is no exception. Zillow is no stranger to AI.