Zillow Buys Popular Home Tour Scheduler ShowingTime
Aiming to bring one more piece of the real estate industry’s core infrastructure under its control, Zillow announced it has agreed to buy open house scheduling platform ShowingTime.
Aiming to bring one more piece of the real estate industry’s core infrastructure under its control, Zillow announced it has agreed to buy open house scheduling platform ShowingTime.
Companies across a variety of industries are expecting larger deals and a pickup in merger and acquisitions in 2018 – but in the banking world, experts expect the opposite.
The common play for investors has long been to purchase shares in banks that are prime takeover candidates, hope they get sold and then collect a nice premium. But Sandler O’Neill, a firm that invests in banks in Massachusetts and nationwide, believes there’s a better approach.
The nationwide trend of real estate agencies mergers and acquisitions came to Boston this month with Douglas Elliman’s announced purchase of local Otis & Ahearn Real Estate.