Company News
Introducing the Redfin Compete Score
We know that today’s housing market is highly competitive. But if you’re buying or selling your house, that’s not enough — you need to know
You’re Invited: Symposium on Race and Real Estate
As Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman announced in his Wednesday keynote at Inman Connect, we’re hosting a symposium on race and real estate in our Seattle
The Real Reason Diverse Teams Are Better at Solving Problems and Making Money
Many people don’t believe that diversity is a big competitive advantage. We disagree. Here’s how our diversity efforts have helped our bottom line.
A More Perfect Union: Why Cities Are Still Racially Divided And What We As Real Estate Brokers Can Do About It
As real estate brokers, we do everything in our power to give our customers an advantage. This is what we’re supposed to do. But what if our
Doing Our Part
Redfin did not sign the business community’s petition against Seattle’s head tax, which as of Monday afternoon is headed to the mayor’s desk for a signature.
Welcome Caitlin McCrory, Redfin’s New Head of Industry Relations!
Caitlin will work to strengthen Redfin’s relationships with multiple listing services, associations and other brokerages.
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.