real estate

The GV70 reminds us why controls were consolidated in touch screens in the first place: a shortage of real estate.

The Seattle-based company rose to prominence with online listings, but has over time diversified into mortgage origination and software for real estate professionals and strengthened its rental-listings business.

A buyer would receive a stake in the operating company—not its valuable real estate, which is owned by the founding Goodman family.

“They destroyed everything. He lost everything,” said Levanque, who fears her own cafe and real estate agency could be targeted, too.

The company is structured as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, a kind of business normally known for paying large dividends.