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JANUARY 29, 2024

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Information Week

AUGUST 30, 2021

Bringing a major real estate services company with multiple brands in its portfolio to the cloud required a multifaceted strategy that continues to evolve.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

The residential real estate industry may not be perceived to be as digitally aggressive as Wall Street titans and multinational manufacturing conglomerates. Augmenting real estate relationships with data Keller Williams, another leading residential player, also kicked off its digital transformation roughly seven years ago.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The news: Seattle-based real estate startup Aloft raised $20 million to grow its software platform used for home appraisals. The company has annualized revenue in the millions of dollars and is working with dozens of large national lenders, as well as smaller regional lenders, offering direct integration into their existing systems.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

(ZIllow Image) Seattle real estate giants Zillow Group and Redfin announced a rare syndication partnership Tuesday related to the sharing of new construction listings. Zillow says it has the largest selection of new-construction communities of all real estate websites in the U.S.,

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Green Canopy Photo) Three former executives of the climate friendly housing technology company Green Canopy NODE have left to create Cambia Capital , a sustainability-focused real estate investment firm. Fellow executive Chief Development Officer Sam Lai will stay in his role with the company as well.

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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. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman announced the news in a memo to employees on Tuesday that was posted to the company’s blog. Adam Wiener. “Change is necessary and good.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 The company says its software has handled more than a million pages of documents across 1,800 locations. Unwrap and Spiral provide companies with insights based on their customer feedback data.

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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. The Seattle company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Monday. The company reduced headcount again in November.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Zillow CTO David Beitel was one of the first executive leaders at the real estate giant. GeekWire interviewed Beitel during the company’s “Hack Week” in Seattle last month. GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) More and more companies are using AI and machine learning to boost their businesses.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the second time in five months. The company laid off approximately 20% of its staff in July. The company laid off approximately 20% of its staff in July. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Tushar Garg. Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg. Flyhomes Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Compass CEO Robert Reffkin last year after cutting the ribbon on the real estate brokerage’s tech center in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. billion — faces intense competition from two of Seattle’s homegrown real estate powerhouses: Zillow Group and Redfin. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

MAY 4, 2023

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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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2023

(Redfin and Zillow Photos) Redfin and Zillow Group ‘s second-quarter earnings reports point to more pain in the real estate market as limited housing supply and climbing mortgage rates throttle transaction volume. The company’s real estate services division, its primary source of revenue, dropped more than 28% to $180.6

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

MoxiWorks , a Seattle-based startup that operates a platform for real estate brokers, acquired ActivePipe , a 8-year-old company based in Australia that helps more than 40,000 agents across 2,500 brokerages with email marketing tools. MoxiWorks spun out of Windermere Real Estate more than a decade ago.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Seattle-based NavigatorCRE, makers of a data analytics platform that serves the commercial real estate industry, has raised $17.2 (NavigatorCRE Image). million in new funding, the startup announced Tuesday. The Series A funding round was led by Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners and was joined by existing investors.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 21, 2020

RealPage, which develops cloud-based software and data analytics for the real estate sector, is to be acquired in a deal worth $10.2 Read More.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Real estate startup Place offers technology and services for agents and brokers, in addition to a consumer portal. Real estate technology and services company Place just raised the first outside capital in its history: a $100 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, at a valuation of more than $1 billion.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2020

New York-based real estate brokerage and tech company Compass will acquire Modus , a Seattle startup that automates the title and escrow phase of closing on a home. Compass plans to integrate Modus’ software into its tech-fueled platform used by more than 18,000 real estate agents across 165-plus U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The once high-flying real estate market sputtered in 2022, dragging many real estate tech companies down with it. The sudden swing pushed companies to cut costs, which included layoffs and shifts to their business models. Both companies are forecasting even lower volumes in Q4.

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2021

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Seattle’s booming tech economy has altered the regional real estate market over the last decade, with home prices moving steadily upward in the face of low inventory and high demand. Thousands of those workers are part of the ongoing layoffs affecting companies big and small.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Instashowing , a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings, has raised $1.5 Flint previously founded Trulia, a real estate listings company acquired by Zillow in 2015. He said the company is in conversations with MLS and brokerages that represent 600,000 agents.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 6, 2016

Australian real estate marketing company moves systems into the cloud to help it compete during a property boom

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2023

The slow market is hurting companies like Redfin. The Seattle-based online brokerage and real estate data hub has seen its stock fall by more than 40% this month. ” On climate risk and real estate “The number one thing that motivates somebody to move somewhere is affordability. Climate is on the list.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

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 in four cities — Phoenix, Ariz., (Zillow Photo). Tucson, Ariz., Raleigh, N.C., and Charlotte, N.C.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Office building attendance in downtown Seattle this past November increased year-over-year from 15-20% to 35-60%, as more companies establish in-office mandates, according to a new report from CBRE. The adoption of hybrid work policies at tech companies has hit the commercial real estate market hard.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2022

Scammers are attacking home buyers through wire fraud transactions, often posing as their title company or broker/real estate agent whom the victim has been working with. Victims then unknowingly transfer their finances over, only to later find that their real estate team never received the payment.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2021

Seattle startup Modus is facing a cease-and-desist order from the Washington state insurance commissioner for allegedly violating real estate regulations. The company was recently acquired by Compass, the New York-based real estate giant that filed for an IPO earlier this month.

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GeekWire

JUNE 16, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder Spencer Rascoff and Trulia co-founder Pete Flint are among the investors in La Haus , a startup aiming to digitize the real estate experience for consumers in Latin America. The 3-year-old company announced a $10 million Series A round led by Kaszek Ventures.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Seattle-based Porch today named five directors that will join the company’s board when it goes public later this year. The real estate technology venture and home improvement marketplace announced plans in July to become publicly traded through a merger that values the Seattle company at $523 million.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2020

Seattle-based real restate company Redfin is resuming its RedfinNow home-buying business in four additional markets, the company announced Friday , continuing to power back up a business that was paused because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Redfin Photo). Zillow says new for-sale listings are up 19.3 percent over the past month.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 7, 2020

The online real estate giant on Thursday posted better than expected financial results for its second quarter with $768 million in revenue, up 28% year-over-year. The Seattle company’s stock was trading up more than 16% Friday, and has more than doubled in price since March. But the U.S. housing market rebounds.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

14, saying that the company planned to lay off about 10,000 corporate and tech workers — the largest job cuts in the company’s history. Also this week: the impact of the downturn on high-tech real estate brokerage Redfin ; and our thoughts on a potential collaboration between Jeff Bezos and Jay-Z. .

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Showdigs , a Seattle real estate technology startup, has raised $7.4 Founded in 2018, the company makes it easier for property managers to schedule and show rental homes and apartments by connecting those managers with a network of licensed real estate agents through an Uber-like marketplace model. It reported 2.5x

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2020

As 2019 drew to a close, the real estate startup had $141 million in fresh funding to fuel the expansion of its novel home-buying service beyond Seattle to Portland, Boston, and Los Angeles. Since then, the Seattle real estate market has stabilized for the most part, according to Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg.

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