Company News
Why I Joined Redfin: Vanessa Gamp
Vanessa Gamp is Redfin’s newest Sales Manager leading the San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma teams. She joined Redfin in September 2024, bringing more than 16
Redfin Welcomes August Agent Hires
Redfin is closing out the summer strong by welcoming another great group of Newfins! The talented agents who joined us in August come from all
Don’t End Clear Cooperation
Today, the National Association of Realtors is considering proposals advanced by traditional brokers to undo the Clear Cooperation policy against pocket listings. This would hurt
We’re Expanding Redfin Next Nationwide!
It’s official – we’re taking our Redfin Next agent pay plan nationwide! Starting October 27th, all Redfin agents will earn competitive splits as high as
Redfin Welcomes July Agent Hires
Summer is in full swing, and Redfin isn’t slowing down on our plans to keep growing! Last month, we were lucky to welcome–and welcome back,
Change Is Good
Dear Redfin Customers, As many of you have already heard from your Redfin agent, by the end of this week, most local Multiple Listing Services
Why Isn’t There an Executive Master’s Program in Computer Science?
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
