The San Jose-based online real estate company, who's technology team calls Bellevue, WA its home, announced that it has secured $17.5 million in a successful 3rd round of funding.

According to the company's Bellevue-based CTO and co-founder Patrick Husting, ehome is already moving forward with expansion plans and recently launched a new version of its online system. Its 2.0 version of its proprietary technology for the real estate market includes a marketing engine, lead generator and a work flow system to manage all steps from escrow to property disclosure and transaction management. "With our system buyers and sellers can log on to check the status of the transaction, send emails and chat. While better communication is one benefit of the system, reduction of fees is also a key benefit. "By streamlining the process we are able to bring down the commission of the sale side to 1.5% vs. the traditional fee of 6%."