GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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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JULY 30, 2020

Seattle-based real estate company Redfin topped Wall Street estimates for its second quarter earnings , reporting $214 million in revenue, up 8%, and a net loss per share of $0.08. The real estate market is on a roller coaster this year as buying activity slowed due to the pandemic but has rebounded in recent months.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Flyhomes is broadening its suite of home-buying tools by acquiring the host-to-own platform Loftium in a Seattle startup real estate deal. The acquisition comes at a time when the broader real estate market has been in flux due in part to rising interest rates.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

A remedy for homebuyer’s remorse: Real estate startup Flyhomes today unveiled a new offering called Flyhomes Guarantee for Buyers that gives clients a way to move out of a home they recently purchased. It’s the latest idea from the Seattle company, known for helping people purchase houses directly with cash.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 30, 2023

(Redfin Photo) Longtime Redfin executive Adam Wiener is leaving the Seattle-based real estate giant, nearly 16 years after he joined the company. ” Previously: Redfin’s chief economist on the real estate market; mortgage rates; climate risk; housing affordability ” Wiener’s last day will be Sept.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Redfin’s Direct Access program enables buyers to tour a home by unlocking the door via an app and connected smart lock. Tech tools such as video tours have increasingly helped power real estate transactions during the pandemic, decreasing the need for face-to-face interactions. Redfin Photo). Its net loss widened to $27.9

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the second time in five months. Real estate tech companies are looking to cut costs amid a slowing housing market and rising interest rates, as well as broader economic uncertainty. Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg. Flyhomes Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Seattle online real estate giant said today it will shut down Zillow Offers, its iBuying program that aims to digitize and accelerate the homebuying experience. Zillow Group’s ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 7, 2023

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.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2020

Seattle-based Nexme had launched its minimally viable product (MVP) and its team was working long hours to make improvements to its real estate buying app. The caller, Mark Montgomery , a real estate investor with more than 30 years in the sector, had checked out their platform and wanted to learn more. Nexme Image).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Washington state voters rejected initiatives that would have axed a capital gains tax and a program to reduce carbon emissions. billion over two years , pays for public education, early learning programs and school construction. An election box in Seattle. PT on Tuesday. PT on Tuesday.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW.

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GeekWire

APRIL 12, 2023

This is the third time in less than a year the Seattle real estate company has conducted a workforce reduction. Redfin said last November that it would wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and eliminate 862 positions, or 13% of its workforce. The company also reported a net loss of $61.9

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

headquarters Thursday as part of a $750 million program designed to alleviate the region’s real estate crunch. Other participants in the fund include Stream Real Estate, Freddie Mac, Washington Federal, Washington Trust, and Berkadia. “We (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg).

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

General Services Administration (GSA) today announced that it has closed 37 data centers this fiscal year as part of the national Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), allowing the agency to avoid real estate costs and reduce energy consumption.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

A Seattle-area tech executive who attempted to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 disaster relief loans through the Paycheck Protection Program was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday. (Justice.gov Image). Mukund Mohan, 48, of Clyde Hill, Wash., pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering on March 15.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Opendoor , the online real estate giant that lets people directly buy and sell homes online, has acquired Seattle-based startup Pro.com and San Francisco-based Skylight. They aim to digitize the homebuying experience from start to finish, and take a share of the nearly $2 trillion real estate industry. Pro.com Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

A conversation about the pitfalls of real estate valuations leads John Cook and me into a larger discussion about the continued importance of human judgment and attention in the modern world. Plus, cat vs. coyote: the crazy scene on my Ring camera this week.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Redfin sold 388 homes via RedfinNow in the quarter, up from 37 in the year-ago period, and expanded the program to five additional cities. Zillow said it decided to shut down its iBuying program Zillow Offers after failing to accurately forecast home prices. “And isn’t the Alpha and Omega, the Vishnu God of Destruction.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This follows another Bloomberg report that the real estate browsing website had to stop buying houses when it found itself with excess inventory after the company told investors it planned on ramping up its flipping business. It’ll then deal with any repairs or quick renovations and then sell the house itself.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

The Seattle real estate company posted its first quarter earnings report on Thursday with $191 million in revenue, up 73% and beating expectations of $178 million. “Real estate commerce has probably virtualized itself more in the past two months than it had in the prior 20 years,” he said in a statement.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Fred Hutch has spent two years refurbishing the 106-year-old building into 106,000 square feet of space suitable for 300 scientists and staff focused on immunotherapy, translational data science and related programs. The new space expands Fred Hutch’s wet lab space by 15 percent and its total real estate footprint to 1.4

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

housing market continues to show signs of weakening, impacting Seattle real estate tech companies such as Zillow Group and Redfin. The company also said it plans to shut down its home-flipping “iBuying” program RedfinNow. The Seattle real estate giant reported revenue of $600.5 13 in Seattle.

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GeekWire

JUNE 13, 2023

.” Bridget Frey , CTO at Redfin , a Seattle-based real estate company Bridget Frey, CTO at Redfin. Redfin Photo) “We’ve already found a number of places where AI tools are making our engineers more efficient.

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2021

But when he finally got the opportunity , the Expedia and Zillow co-founder started with a critique of the program’s name — specifically, its pronoun. Barton co-founded the online real estate company in 2005, and was succeeded as CEO by Spencer Rascoff in 2011, before returning to the role in 2019. .”

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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2020

JetClosing is part of a growing trend in real estate to shift the homebuying experience online — one that has accelerated due to the global health crisis. Real estate agents using JetClosing can provide real-time notifications and messaging to homebuyers about the progress of a close.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2021

This past April the Seattle-area couple finally found a house they loved, but had to compete against 14 other offers — a familiar situation for buyers trying to purchase a property in the current chaotic real estate market. “We’re building the world’s best home-buying experience,” Garg told GeekWire this week.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Seattle real estate tech startup Flyhomes recently vacated its office space at the 1201 Western Building along Western Ave. The real estate startup confirmed that it vacated the space on Sept. Flyhomes, which helps homebuyers make all-cash offers among other real estate services, has gone through multiple layoffs.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

The new plan was spelled out in a blog post from Dan Spaulding, the Seattle-based real estate company’s chief people officer, in which he said the company always planned to be “responsive to changing conditions.” “This is a drastic change from where we started the year,” Spaulding wrote.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

housing market is making a comeback — and that’s good news for online real estate giants Zillow Group and Redfin. million, while its real estate brokerage revenue was up more than 30%. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman (left) and Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton (right). Redfin and Zillow Photos). existing home sales rose.08

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2021

New funding: Seattle real estate startup Plunk has closed a $6.5 Plunk plans to grow the 21-person company and will participate in the 2021 Reach scale-up accelerator program hosted by Second Century Ventures. Seattle real estate hotbed: Plunk is among a cadre of real estate companies in the Seattle region.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

based startup, which sells technology that enhances live programming, offered its desks, chairs, monitors, and other furniture to employees for their home office setup. commercial real estate industry that saw deal volume sink 79% in May, Bloomberg reported. That could mean reduced real estate needs and expense.

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GeekWire

APRIL 6, 2021

The accelerator will run for four weeks, with programming designed to support the startup founders toward presenting on Investor Demo Day on May 1. The companies represent such verticals as FinTech, EdTech, Real Estate, VR/AR, Logistics, and CPG and Products.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. Amazon said in a blog post that more than 800 new AWS jobs — including software developers, UX designers, and technical program managers — will be located at Redmond Town Center. Invesco Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As part of its third quarter earnings report in November, the Seattle real estate giant said it was ending Zillow Offers, its “iBuying” home-flipping program. Erickson added that investors are trying to figure out how much Zillow can continue growing in relation to the overall real estate market.

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