Cozy unveils its platform to fix broken process of renting real estate

June 6, 2013 7:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Cozy revealed its platform today that seeks to fix this painful process and promote a more constructive relationship between landlords and their tenants. The company also announced raising $1.5 million from the Social+ Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, and big-name angel investors.

Groundfloor unveils ‘Lending Club for real-estate’ so you can get richer, faster (exclusive)

May 30, 2013 1:14 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Groundfloor is building a peer-to-peer platform that gives regular people opportunities to invest in real estate projects. It is emerging out of stealth mode today and opening up to private beta.

Trulia acquires Market Leader to enter realm of enterprise software

May 8, 2013 11:40 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Online real estate marketplace Trulia acquires Market Leader, a company that provides a software-as-a-service solution for real estate professionals, for $355 million.

Placester locks up $2.5M so real estate agents can do business online

April 29, 2013 10:52 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Placester announced $2.5 million in funding today for its suite of software solutions that help real estate agents, brokers, and home owners effectively run their business online.

Zillow’s Marketplace revenue nearly doubles with a strong Q4

February 13, 2013 2:30 PM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

Zillow reported its fourth quater 2012 earnings today, crushing analyst estimates and perhaps silencing the critics who say its business model is baloney.

42floors takes $12.3M to hack commercial real estate at home, abroad

January 31, 2013 11:06 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

42floors raises new funds to better connect companies without office space and office space without companies.

New apartment rental marketplace lets hunters search for shelter in packs

January 9, 2013 10:59 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

RoomHunt integrates a rental directory with social networks to simplify the process of finding a place to live and roommates to live with.

VivaReal raises $15M to help people find home in Latin America

December 20, 2012 10:30 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Latin America's real estate marketplace VivaReal raises $15M in its second round of funding.

Pass Go and collect $16M: Zillow acquires real estate marketplace HotPads

November 26, 2012 2:29 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Real estate marketplace Zillow buys up startup HotPads to bolster its rental platform.

HomeLight aims to change the real estate business with Google funding

November 14, 2012 9:31 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

HomeLight helps you find the real estate agent -- the best one for your price point and neighborhood and experience level -- and agents only pay for the service if they end up with a new client out of the process.

Gloomy analyst report sends Zillow’s shares tumbling

September 25, 2012 2:43 PM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

Zillow may have brought in $27.8 million last quarter, but some investors aren't so confident in its potential.

Real estate app Trulia soars 40% following IPO

September 20, 2012 8:52 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Real estate site Trulia‘s stock has popped about 40 percent in early trading on its first day as a public company, with the stock trading about $7 over its $17-per-share IPO price.

Zillow continues its mobile push with iPhone Rentals app

September 6, 2012 8:28 AM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

Zillow says mobile and real estate go hand in hand, which is why the company is launching its Rentals app for the iPhone

Fundrise, crowdfunding for real estate, off to nice start

August 19, 2012 7:56 AM Matt Marshall
Matt Marshall

Fundrise, a newly launched company, is democratizing the cumbersome real estate investment industry by letting any person invest $100 for a share in the deal.

It’s the latest company to ride the wave of enthusiasm around crowd-sourced funding, a trend …

Real-estate site Trulia files for $75M IPO despite consistent losses

August 17, 2012 6:40 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Real estate site Trulia publicly filed for a $75 million IPO this morning, setting its sights on its competitor Zillow, which went public last year.

HomeSnap closes deal for same price as Heath Ledger’s treehouse

August 6, 2012 11:33 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Sawbuck Realty closed $3.5 million in financing for HomeSnap, a real estate discovery engine that gives house hunters detailed information about a home based on photo.

Billed as “Shazam for Homes,” HomeSnap uses image-recognition technology to identify a property. Users …

DotLoop takes the physical paperwork out of the home-buying process, grabs funding

May 22, 2012 4:30 AM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Buying a house involves a slow process of sharing a lot of physical documents between several different people. Frustrated by this process, Austin Allison founded DotLoop, a startup that invites people to digital documents instead of sending them via email …

Facebook IPO is juicing Silicon Valley real estate prices to crazy levels

May 10, 2012 12:27 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

The impending Facebook initial public offering is pushing already-expensive Silicon Valley real estate to frenetic new highs.

The two months prior to the IPO announcement saw only 840 sales in the region. In dramatic contrast, sales in the last two …

42Floors’ new “Showroom” turns startup offices into seductive hiring tools

May 3, 2012 2:22 PM Michael Sinanian
Michael Sinanian

42Floors emerged from Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 class back in March as an office space search and discovery service with the mission of helping companies find their dream office.

The company launched with some strong rhetoric about technologically upending the …