Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In its current state, the metaverse is prime (virtual) real-estate for brands looking to make press headlines, test and learn, and reach a subset of the Gen Z audience. Brands that expect a revenue-based ROI from their metaverse custom media buys will be sorely disappointed.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2020

RedfinNow stopped making offers on March 17 as economic uncertainty showed the real estate market taking a turn for the worse. While analysts predict a surge of interest in the real estate market this summer, homeowners are still struggling with the effects of the economic crisis. percent over the past month.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

Zillow’s Listing Showcase combines media and immersive virtual viewing to present a home’s features and layout. Zillow Image) Seattle-based real estate technology company Zillow is leveraging artificial intelligence to create more immersive listings designed to stand out from the pack and help a home sell faster.

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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. ” Fellow Seattle real estate giant Redfin also beat estimates for its quarterly earnings last week as the U.S. Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton.

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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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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

“But what we see from Q4 (2020) results is that iBuying is starting to take off, even in the hottest seller’s market in history,” said Rob Hahn, managing partner at real estate consultancy 7DS Associates. ” Real estate tech companies are benefiting from a strong U.S. housing market that gained nearly $2.5

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has taken decisive action against Ekaterina Zhdanova, a Russian national, for her significant role in laundering and transferring funds using virtual currency on behalf of Russian elites and ransomware actors, including the notorious Ryuk gang.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2024

The real estate giant is rolling out a new generative AI-powered virtual assistant called “Ask Redfin” that can quickly answer questions about a particular home listing. Redfin is the latest company to develop virtual assistants or “copilots” that can understand user questions and produce answers.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

The Zillow Group CEO expressed optimism for the future of real estate despite a global pandemic that has slowed home sales and leaves the industry with an uncertain future. It is leaning on technology such as virtual home showings in the meantime. ” The Seattle real estate giant posted Q1 revenue of $1.1

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Seattle-based real estate technology company called Apple’s spatial computing headset “the next best thing to being there in person” for home shoppers who want to check out virtual walkthroughs and 3D floor plans. A floor plan of a house on Zillow as seen in Apple Vision Pro.

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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 1, 2021

Hear from leaders across tech, real estate, entertainment, and science. 4-5 in Seattle, with the option to attend virtually or in-person at Block 41 , one of downtown Seattle’s coolest venues. 4-5 in Seattle, with the option to attend virtually or in-person at Block 41 , one of downtown Seattle’s coolest venues.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

(Redfin Photo) [This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. Imagining what a home might look like can be tough for would-be buyers. However, a new tool from Redfin — powered by AI, of course — is designed to help. “Sellers want their listings to appeal to the broadest pool of buyers, regardless of design preferences.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

(Redfin Photo) When Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman briefly spoke with Sam Altman, he warned him to tread lightly when it comes to infusing artificial intelligence into real estate search. ” Kelman recalled the conversation during a virtual panel discussion hosted by real estate startup Pacaso on Tuesday.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Amazon’s latest offering is virtual tourism through its new Amazon Explore service. Ex-Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff jumps back into real estate, but this time with a new service called Pacaso that helps people buy shares in a second home. And they have some thoughts on who should be president. We look at how it pencils out.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2022

Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. Next step: the office. “We

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

On Saturday, Tableau ran up a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars as its virtual celebration amounted to 3,500 takeaway dinners from 40 local restaurants. ” Restaurateur Ethan Stowell during a virtual holiday “carol-oke” gathering with the Tableau team. Tableau Photo). Photo courtesy of Smartsheet).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A hot real estate market helped Redfin’s monthly active visitors grow to a record 44.1 Redfin and other real estate tech companies including fellow Seattle giant Zillow Group are benefiting from a strong U.S. Another tailwind for Redfin: home-buyers are increasingly going online to find a real estate agent.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Tech tools such as video tours have increasingly helped power real estate transactions during the pandemic, decreasing the need for face-to-face interactions. Related: The new realities of real estate: Redfin CEO on tech, climate, housing, and the era of ‘a thousand HQs’. (Redfin Photo). housing market gained nearly $2.5

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2021

The interview traced the course of his career from travel to real estate, from his early days at Microsoft, where he and his colleagues hatched travel giant Expedia, to his current role as CEO of Zillow Group. Barton interviewed Raz for a Zillow virtual partner event for real estate professionals toward the beginning of the pandemic.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The metaverse gives us the ability to conceive and create totally new virtual worlds. Instead, we’re quickly adopting old-world models. Read More.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 31, 2023

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s ongoing quest to turn every Facebook property into ad-riddled real estate hit a snag this week when the only virtual reality game that publicly offered to onboard Oculus’s VR ads (rightfully) backed down. Read more.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

“This is a pivotal moment for Talkdesk as the market for conversational AI and virtual agents is expected to grow rapidly.” Libretto , a LLM startup led by former employees at Seattle real estate giant Redfin, this week came out of stealth and announced a $3.7 San Francisco-based Elastic went public in 2018.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2020

Zillow Group flew by analyst expectations for its second quarter revenue as the Seattle real estate giant voiced confidence in the housing market amid the pandemic. In addition, real estate, like other industries, is experiencing an acceleration in technology adoption, as people move their shopping habits from offline to online.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Another virtual reality gaming experience is opening shop in the Seattle region. Sandbox VR announced Wednesday that it will open one of its full-body VR venues in 520 Westlake, a Vulcan Real Estate property in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. (Sandbox VR Photo). Canada, Europe and Asia. The space is now open.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2022

Warner Music Group will open an outpost in virtual world The Sandbox , and it hopes music buffs will express their fandom by acquiring nearby property. But so far, it’s only discussed one specific event: a special sale of digital real estate called Land, which Sandbox users can buy “coveted” plots of in March. The Sandbox.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Pandemic impact: There is more attention than ever on multifamily given its resilience compared to other real estate investments such as commercial properties, said Knock co-founder Demetri Themelis. As a result, Knock has added more customers and quadrupled revenue over the past two years, with more than 1.5

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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

MAY 11, 2020

One of Redfin’s co-founders is suing the high-tech real estate brokerage for patent infringement and intellectual property theft, alleging that the violations handicapped his current startup. That complaint concerns image-based rendering technology that makes it possible to move around a property virtually.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2024

He previously was chief technology officer at real estate giant Compass, and was CTO of AI at Microsoft, where he worked for more than five years. .” Sirosh, who left Amazon in November, declined to comment on investment raised or number of employees at the company.

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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%. Both companies are seeing increased usage of virtual tours and other digital tools amid the pandemic and stay-at-home orders.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2022

The parent company of Facebook and Oculus has renewed and expanded its office leases in Seattle’s Stadium District in what real estate experts describe as a sign of companies making plans around the future regional light rail connection between Seattle and the Eastside cities of Bellevue and Redmond. Locations approximate.).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Meta made a big announcement Tuesday about how it hopes to bring touch to the virtual world through the use of haptic gloves developed by the company’s Reality Labs Research. Seattle appraisal startup Aloft lands $20M from real estate heavyweights. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company’s free-to-use chatbot, powered by an API from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, acts as a virtual assistant that responds instantly, gathers information, sets up appointments, and produces a conversation summary for business owners. It can be used within social media profiles or on a website.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

“We’re operating within a labor- and supply-constrained economy inside a competitive real estate market, especially in the construction, renovation and closing spaces,” Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow chief operating officer, said in a statement. It ended Q2 with 3,142 homes in inventory.

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