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| Type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Real estate |
| Founded | Tallahassee, Florida (January 28, 1999) |
| Headquarters | 501 S. 5th Street , Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States |
Area served | United States & Canada |
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Number of employees | 400+ |
| Parent | CoStar Group |
| Website | www.homes.com |
Homes.com, Inc. is a real estate web portal that is owned and managed by CoStar Group. Headquartered at 501 S. 5th Street in Richmond, Virginia, Homes.com maintains additional offices in Boca Raton, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and San Diego, California. The company also provides real estate marketing and media services including brand advertising, property listing syndication, reputation management and lead generation.
Homes.com began as the primary website for Homes and Land Publishing in 1993 and was incorporated in January 1999 as Homes.com, Inc. In March of the following year, a venture capital funding round generated $38.5 million [1] and gave Hummer Winblad Venture Partners a controlling interest in Homes.com. In March 2000, shortly after its venture capital funding round, Homes.com acquired Web Society, Inc., doing business as Real Estate Village, for a combination of cash and stock.[2] Real Estate Village, founded by John Perkins (CEO) and Grant Gould (VP of Sales) of San Diego, California, had over 100 employees and operated three offices at the time of the acquisition. The company became a subsidiary division of Homes.com, with Perkins and Gould continuing on as co-managing directors of the Real Estate Village operation for a brief transition period.
In March 2001, Homes.com filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a financial restructuring following the dot-com market downturn. The filing came approximately one year after the company raised $38.5 million in venture capital funding during the peak of the dot-com bubble.[3] Despite the bankruptcy, the company continued to operate its website and services during the reorganization process. As part of the turnaround effort, then-CEO Tom Orsi rehired John Perkins, co-founder of Real Estate Village—a company Homes.com had acquired the previous year—to assist in the restructuring and help guide the company through its exit from bankruptcy.[4] Perkins remained with the company throughout the reorganization and continued in a leadership role until the company’s eventual sale to Trader Publishing Company. The reorganization enabled Homes.com to reduce operating costs and refocus its business model for long-term sustainability.[5]
In October 2004, Homes.com, Inc. was purchased by Trader Publishing Company, a joint business venture of Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises. In September 2006, Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises split the assets of Trader Publishing and Homes.com, Inc. becoming a subsidiary of Dominion Enterprises, LLC.
In May 2011, Homes.com launched the Home Values channel[6] to display automated estimates of home prices.[7] In August, the company launched Homes Connect, a platform for real estate professionals.[8] In September 2014, David Mele was appointed president of Homes.com.[9] In January 2015, Andy Woolley became the head of industry development.[10]
In April 2021, Landmark announced that Homes.com, a unit of its Dominion Enterprises subsidiary, had been sold to CoStar Group Inc. for $156 million.[11][12]
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Homes.com, Inc. is a real estate web portal that is owned and managed by CoStar Group. Headquartered at 501 S. 5th Street in Richmond, Virginia, Homes.com maintains additional offices in Boca Raton, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and San Diego, California. The company also provides real estate marketing and media services including brand advertising, property listing syndication, reputation management and lead generation.
CoStar Group, Inc. is an American provider of information, analytics, and marketing services to the commercial property industry in North America and Europe. Founded in 1987 by Andrew C. Florance and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company operates the CoStar online database and news website and several online marketplaces, including Apartments.com and Homes.com.
Movies.com was a website; the URL now redirects to that of its owner, Fandango Media. The Walt Disney Company was using Movies.com in newspaper advertisements for Disney subsidiary films as early as 1996. Disney formally launched the site as a movie based resource in 2000. In 2001, a group of five film studios announced they were forming "Movielink" to provide video on-demand services. Shortly thereafter, The Walt Disney Company and Fox News Corp. announced that Movies.com would be a joint venture to access films and other content on the internet, allowing the fledgling audience of broadband internet to download movies on demand, then estimated to be about 10 million homes in the United States. Both ventures began to be investigated by the U.S. Antitrust Division. Fox pulled out of the joint venture in April 2002, citing the potential regulatory and logistical concerns with the concept. Fandango acquired the site from Disney in June 2008, at which time Movies.com had 1.9 million monthly unique visitors, compared to 6.3 million for Fandango. The site was home to the award-winning webshow Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony (2005–06), a bi-weekly movie preview webcast starring the Muppets. Another webshow featured Brandon Schantz and a movie spoof called The DiCaprio Code, parodying The Da Vinci Code.
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, commonly also known as O Block, is a gated private apartment complex in the Greater Grand Crossing community area on the border of Woodlawn and Washington Park, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The complex was built from 1950 to 1955. Architect Henry K. Holsman, who planned several of Chicago's affordable housing developments, designed the Modernist buildings. Parkway Gardens has been home to several rappers associated with the Chicago drill scene, including Chief Keef and King Von.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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