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Redfin CEO says housing downturn made real estate giant ‘leaner, hungrier and better’

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But the Seattle real estate giant sees some silver linings. “We wouldn’t wish a housing downturn on anyone, but it has made Redfin leaner, hungrier and better,” Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said in the company’s first quarter earnings release. Kelman said the company’s 2023 budgeting assumption predicts 4.3

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Zillow Group real estate rival Compass files for IPO, shows $3.7B in revenue for 2020

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Compass CEO Robert Reffkin in 2019 after cutting the ribbon on the real estate brokerage’s tech center in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Real estate brokerage Compass filed for an IPO on Monday. The 8-year-old company reported $3.7 GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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WeWork shutting down Ballard location in Seattle as it restructures real estate footprint

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WeWork is closing its location in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle less than two years after the space opened as the office-sharing company restructures its real estate footprint amid continued fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann was forced out and the company went on to lay off thousands.

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Redfin revenue soars 121% in second quarter as net loss grows on RentPath acquisition

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Seattle real estate brokerage Redfin on Thursday posted second quarter revenue of $471 million, a jump of 121 percent over the same period last year. The surge in revenues also came as net losses grew — coming in at $27.9 The company also is spending heavily to attract and retain real estate agents.

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Redfin lays off 201 employees as housing market continues to retrench

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A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Wednesday. This is the third time in less than a year the Seattle real estate company has conducted a workforce reduction. The company also reported a net loss of $61.9 million, compared to $27 million in the year-ago quarter.

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DocuSign joins growing list of tech companies summoning employees back to the office

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Nasdaq Photo) Another tech company wants its employees back in the office. Redfin, the tech-focused Seattle-based real estate brokerage, said last week it was changing course on its own policy and will now require workers in the office two days a week. Other tech companies have committed to remote.

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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

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Eleven data center deals are now the subject of a suit by Amazon vs. two former AWS real estate managers and others. Two of the participants in the August 2017 meeting — Casey Kirschner, an AWS real estate manager, and Carl Nelson, Kirschner’s boss and mentor — were leading that physical expansion for Amazon.