real estate

A Real-Estate App When You’re Buying or Just Nosy

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on May 8 at 6:05 pm PT

HomeSnap lets you take a picture of a home and get a price estimate and more.

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Zillow Acquires RentJuice for $40 Million in Cash

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 2 at 3:04 pm PT

Zillow has acquired RentJuice, a San Francisco-based company that provides rental relationship management software for landlords, for $40 million in cash. The announcement was made during the Seattle company’s first-quarter results, which included earnings of $1.7 million on record revenues of $22.9 million.

Walk Score Places a Value on How Easy It Is to Navigate a Neighborhood (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 26 at 5:30 am PT

When looking for a new house or apartment, ever wonder what the commute will be like, or how far away the grocery store or coffee shop is?

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Zillow to Open Southern California Sales Office

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 16 at 1:32 pm PT

Zillow, which aggregates real estate information online, said it is opening a new sales office in Irvine, Calif., later this summer, with plans to hire up to 100. The Seattle company said the employees will be focused on selling subscriptions to local agents. The office will also have 20 employees from Diverse Solutions, a company Zillow acquired in November.

Realty Bites: Agents Face Off Against Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 27 at 7:00 am PT

The Internet has forever changed the newspaper industry, the music business and travel agencies. Now it’s real estate’s turn.

Here’s Zynga’s Filing on $228M HQ Building Deal (For All You Real Estate Types)

Kara Swisher in News on March 5 at 5:40 pm PT

The online gaming company has fixed it up real pretty.

LivingSocial Takes Deals Offline by Opening a Facility to Host Events

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 13 at 11:20 am PT

One of the big expenses of running a daily deals site is marketing costs to acquire customers. LivingSocial can now add real estate to the list, too.

O.co Shutters at Least Three Businesses, As It Questions New Commerce Models

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 6, 2011 at 6:30 pm PT

O.co has shut down three of its product categories, and a fourth is on hold, after some of its experiments over the past couple of years have not penciled out.

Real Estate Search Provider Trulia Sold on IPO Prospects

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 23, 2011 at 7:56 am PT

Trulia’s founder and CEO Pete Flint remains focused on taking his real-estate search company public, despite one of its closest competitors beating him to it this summer.

Zillow’s First Quarter as a Public Company Also Marks First Profit

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 24, 2011 at 1:54 pm PT

Zillow reported its first profit ever today as part of its second-quarter earnings release, only one month after raising more than $70 million in its public offering.