Windermere Real Estate

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Windermere Real Estate, a real estate company based in Seattle, Washington, was founded by John W. Jacobi in 1972, when he purchased an eight-agent office. Still privately held, it now has over 400 offices and 8,000 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 2006, Windermere does business in Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Hawaii. All Windermere offices are locally owned and operated.

Windermere sponsors the annual Windermere Cup crew races in the Montlake Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and the annual Windermere Community Service Day.