The commercial real estate giant CoStar is engaged in talks to buy U.S. number two portal Realtor.com's parent company Move Inc from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Confirmation of the discussions...
Zillow has today announced a new feature that will let prospective tenants schedule a property viewing directly from the portal. Until now Zillow's rental listings included a 'request a tour'...
The Colorado-based proptech company Zavvie has announced a $3.65 million funding round led by existing investors including Second Century Ventures, the startup incubator backed by the National Association of Realtors. The...
Compass has executed what it says is its third and final round of layoffs as the US portal looks to become profitable for the first time since its inception. The...
New York City-based rental platform Rove has secured a $4m seed funding round to expand its "part-Airbnb, part-luxury hotel" business. The funding round was led by a wide-ranging set of...
Redfin's rental portal operator Rent. has announced a partnership with reputation management services provider Reputation. The partnership will power the new RentRep. product for Rent.'s clients. The new product allows...
Zillow Group has completed the acquisition of VRX Media, a provider of aerial drone photography, virtual staging, 3D tours, high-definition photography and fast media delivery to clients. The terms of...
The publicly traded U.S. iBuyer Opendoor has announced a management and boardroom reshuffle which the company says will allow it to focus on growing out is capabilities as a marketplace....
The American real estate data and marketplace giant CoStar Group has confirmed that it has laid off "approximately 100" employees from its nascent residential segment. A statement on the matter...
CoStar CEO Andy Florance says that his company will not change its business model to go after agent commissions once it is established as a residential real estate portal player...
The U.S. real estate brokerage and marketplace operator Redfin has announced that it will shutter its iBuying business and lay off more than 800 employees after its net losses exceed...
CEO Richard Barton says Zillow made the right decision in shutting down its iBuying business last year after the portal giant posted a $53m loss in its Q3 results, published...
