real estate company founded and based in the windermere neighborhood of seattle washington was founded by john w. jacobi in 1972 when he purchased an eight agent office . still privately held it is now the largest real estate company in the pacific northwest with over 300 offices and 7 000 agents . it expanded outside seattle in 1984 with an office on bainbridge island and ten years later opened offices in british columbia and idaho . as of 2004 update windermere does business in washington oregon california british columbia idaho montana nevada arizona and colorado . all windermere offices are locally owned and operated . windermere sponsors the annual windermere cup since 1987 and cascade cup since 2002 crew races in the montlake cut of the lake washington ship canal . on march 12 2013 windermere announced that it would add actual drive times to and from work as an attribute of new home buying . 1 according to inrix windermere is the first real estate company to offer this feature . 2 on august 9 2013 windermere added search by drive time as a new home buyer feature to its website . 3 notes edit wingfield nick march 12 2013 predicting commutes more accurately for would be home buyers the new york times windermere real estate and inrix partner to help home buyers find properties with the actual drive times press release inrix march 13 2013 hanley frank blair august 9 2013 windermere partners with inrix to provide drive time recommendations for homebuyers geekwire external links edit official website this washington related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title windermere real estate & oldid 737201687 categories real estate services companies of the united statescompanies based in washington state companies based in seattlewashington state stubshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from 2004all articles containing potentially dated statementsall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 09 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view