Company News
Why We Should All Support Clear Cooperation
Pocket listings harm consumers. When agents offer their listings to exclusive networks of buyers, the academic research suggests minorities are most often the ones who are excluded.
Redfin Direct Arrives in Texas
Homebuyers Can Now Buy Redfin Listings Online with the Launch of Redfin Direct in Texas
What I’ve Learned Running Redfin’s Products Organization
I still have the brown-paper sack on my desk, unopened, full of compliments. Melissa Blume, a Redfin director of product management, recently asked the team
Shedding Light on Buyer’s Agent Commissions
Redfin is the first brokerage to publicly display buyer’s agent commission for its own listings
The Next Generation of Real Estate Agents
Findings from a March 2019 Survey of 500 U.S. Real Estate Agents
Opendoor and Redfin Partner to Provide More Options to Home Sellers
Program gives home sellers in Phoenix and Atlanta the ability to request an Opendoor offer through Redfin
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.
