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The market crunch has hit the Seattle real estate scene hard this week.\u00a0 First there was Redfin announcing<\/a> it was laying off 20% of its employees earlier this week and today we get Zillow’s announcement that they’re cutting 40 jobs (roughly 25%).\u00a0\u00a0 You can read about it on the Zillow blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The market crunch has hit the Seattle real estate scene hard this week.\u00a0 First there was Redfin announcing it was laying off 20% of its employees earlier this week and today we get Zillow’s announcement that they’re cutting 40 jobs (roughly 25%).\u00a0\u00a0 You can read about it on the Zillow blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","7":"category-zillowcom","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1264,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1264\/do-you-zlog-making-the-zillow-real-estate-guide-work-for-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":5074,"position":0},"title":"Do You Zlog? 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