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I was featured today in a story on NPR discussing the current state of the housing market. The report talks about the slow down in home sales across the nation after the expiration of the home buyer tax credit.

We attended the Inman News Real Estate Connect Conference last week, which is a conference dedicated to improving the real estate business through technology, social media, blogging and other innovative marketing techniques. The conference is always a good way to meet folks in the real estate industry and to get a pulse on where things [...]

Seattle’s 4th of July fireworks show on Lake Union is coming up tomorrow. Back in April, the show was actually cancelled after the organizers could not find a corporate sponsor to replace Chase Bank, who discontinued their sponsorship of the event. At the last minute, a group of local businesses, including findwell, banded together to save [...]

Earlier this week, it was announced that Seattle’s Lake Union fireworks show for July 4th had been cancelled. The organizer of the event announced that it has not been able to find a title sponsor for this year’s event. All of that changed today, when local startup Findwell Real Estate decided to host its own [...]

Today our competitor Redfin announced two changes to their service. One change is new service levels for home sellers, and another is the ability to tour short sales with a Redfin agent. While we applaud their improvements and think they have a great website, we remain biased about our own service levels and think we [...]

The January 2010 issue of Seattle Magazine features a great story about findwell and what we are trying to do to change the real estate market. Pick up your issue at the newsstands or check it out online here. Change Agents: Web-based Real Estate When some real estate start-ups entered the business, they set out [...]

Seattle real estate startup findwell is proud to announce that it has secured its next round of financing led by Shannon Ressler. Existing findwell investor Kevin Lisota also participated in the round. Today’s funding announcement is a series-SK round of funding of an additional $41.73. According to CEO Kevin Lisota, findwell plans to use the [...]

One of the most rewarding parts about being a real estate agent is handing the keys over to brand-new homeowners. I had the privilege to close a transaction for first-time buyers this week in Woodinville. The transaction was a short sale, and it was the most challenging and messy transaction we have done in the [...]

We are pleased to announce a major upgrade to our website this morning, designed to help home buyers search for homes quickly and easily. The biggest change is that we have a brand new home search powered by Estately, enabling customers to search for homes in the Seattle area on one of the best websites [...]

It is time to update our blog readers with our market statistics for the month of June 2009. We had a record month at findwell for buyer and seller activity, partly due to the market uptick in June, but also due to increasing awareness of our services in the Seattle real estate market. Lots of [...]