Patrick Clark

August 05, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Zillow has bounced between business models in a bid to wring greater profits from its massive online audience.

By Patrick Clark

3 minute read

November 10, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Zillow announced last week that it's pulling the plug on its tech-powered flipping operation after an ambitious effort to transform the company collapsed when its vaunted pricing algorithms proved unequal to the task.

By Patrick Clark

3 minute read

July 26, 2017 | Daily Business Review

To rent an apartment on LoftSmart, a website for college students looking for off-campus housing, users browse listings, take a virtual tour, and read reviews from current or past tenants. If they find a place they like, they can put in an application, sign a lease, and pay their security deposit—all online.

By Patrick Clark

4 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In recent years, tenant demand for smoke-free living environments has led property managers to extend bans on cigarette smoking to cover marijuana. But some landlords worry that forbidding the use of medical marijuana might put them on the wrong side of fair housing law.

By Patrick Clark Bloomberg News

6 minute read