Company News
Redfin Becomes 140+ Agents Stronger in February
The housing market is heating up, and Redfin agents are zeroed in on helping buyers and sellers navigate their 2025 moves. And thanks to our
Find the Perfect Home Day or Night with Dark Mode
The homes on Redfin are dazzling, but your late-night browsing experience doesn’t need to be. Dark mode is now available on the Redfin iOS app!
Rocket is Buying Redfin
Email from Redfin CEO, Glenn Kelman VERY BIG NEWS Redfin, We’ve entered into an agreement for Rocket Companies to buy Redfin in an all-stock deal
Why I Joined Redfin: Collette Canepa
Collette Canepa is a Redfin agent in Los Angeles. She joined Redfin in April 2024 after nearly two decades in the traditional real estate world
Why I Joined Redfin: Andrea Mayhew
Andrea Mayhew is a Redfin Premier agent who serves buyers and sellers in Vancouver, WA. She joined Redfin in September 2024 from John L. Scott
Redfin Welcomes More Than 140 New Agents in January
What a fantastic way to kick off the year! Redfin is excited to welcome over 140 talented agents who are ready to elevate their businesses
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.
