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Meet our April Newfins!
With the spring homebuying season well under way, having a reliable, experienced agent by your side is more important than ever. That’s why we’re thrilled
Buyers Should See All the Listings, Sellers Should Control How Their Listing Appears Online
Editor’s Note: For Redfin’s latest position, please visit: www.redfin.com/news/redfin-policy-seller-choice Because we believe that all buyers should be able to see all listings, Redfin.com will not
Redfin Welcomes Over 120 New Agents in March
Redfin was recently recognized as one of the top residential real estate brokerages by RealTrends Verified, a distinction made possible by the hard work and
Redfin Recognized as a Top Brokerage in RealTrends Verified Rankings
For the third year in a row, Redfin has been recognized among the top residential real estate brokerages nationwide according to the RealTrends Verified Brokerage
Adapting to Change: Redfin’s 2025 Industry Survey
Why We Listen to the Industry Redfin has always strived to be the best employer in real estate, and in my nearly 15 years
Home-Sellers Want Different Marketing Options, Not Different Marketplaces
This article was also published on Inman. With NAR’s new pocket-listing policy, brokers can, with the seller’s consent, withhold listings from public view on real
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.
