Company News
Redfin Direct Expands to Northern Virginia
With Redfin Direct, unrepresented homebuyers can make their offer more competitive by saving the seller thousands of dollars in buyer’s agent commission fees.
Redfin Opens Dallas Engineering Hub
Newly opened Frisco office is home to brokerage, mortgage, title and engineering teams
Redfin and Zillow Agree on Listing Attribution for Syndication in Several Markets
Redfin listings now appear on Zillow.com in Seattle, Charlotte, Des Moines and Nashville.
Exclusive Redfin and RE/MAX Partnership Ends
RE/MAX withdrew today from its corporate partnership with Redfin. Redfin has the utmost respect for RE/MAX as a company, for its agents and leaders. RE/MAX
The Only Agent with a Bright Future is the One Who Puts the Customer First
The following letter was sent from Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, to all our employees, including our agents, on Wednesday May 8, 2019.
Back to the Future: The Buy-It Button Comes to Redfin.com
Redfin Direct is a new way to buy homes listed by Redfin without an agent
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.
