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The Real Estate: 2025 Year in Review
This article was originally published on Inman.com. As we approach 2026, Redfin reflects on a watershed year in the history of American real estate. Here’s
Meet the agents who joined Redfin in November!
As we head into the final weeks of the year, we’re excited to welcome the newest agents who joined Redfin in November. Their expertise and
Say hello to our October Newfins!
With Thanksgiving around the corner, there’s a lot to be thankful for—including our growing team! Please join me in celebrating the agents who joined us
Redfin Debuts Conversational Search to Reinvent How You Find Homes
The AI feature allows you to have a back-and-forth dialogue with Redfin while you search, helping you discover homes that best suit your preferences For
New on Redfin: See Your Buying Power While You Search
One of the most common questions people ask when starting their home search is: “How much house can I afford?” It’s a simple question with
One Year of Redfin Next: Top Redfin Agents’ Pay Jumps 20%
Redfin’s top-performing agents earned an average of $338,100 under the Redfin Next pay model in 2024-25, up 20% from a year earlier The typical 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.