Company News
Howdy, 2009!
Yesterday we talked about what Redfin achieved over the past year. Without thinking much about it, I promised a second post on our priorities for
So Long, 2008
At today’s all-hands meeting, Redfin surveyed our 2008 accomplishments alongside what we wanted to do better in 2009. It was a good exercise, both so
A Free Call Option on the American Economy
This is an essay arguing that some of the same forces driving Wall Street have affected Sand Hill Road, so that entrepreneurs try to make
Which City Has the Lowest Percentage of Homes for Sale? Envelope Please…
We just published a table showing the percentage of listings being sold by a bank. But then we began to wonder: what percentage of properties
Our Maps Are Googley Now
Redfin just released a new version of the site. In addition to improving our short sale detection in Orange County and parts of LA and
A Virtual Earth to Google Maps Transition: From Idea to Deployment In a Few Weeks
Whenever I out myself as a member of the Redfin search team to someone who has used Redfin, one of the first questions I get
First Broad Price Increase Seen in Case-Shiller Index
Case-Shiller data for June 2009 came out this morning. Once we adjust for seasonality — home prices tend to increase in the summer — we
Are Listing Agents Hurting Their Clients by Hiding Addresses?
At Redfin, we’ve long been opposed to dual agency, where the same agent represents both seller and buyer. This hasn’t always been an easy call
Redfin's July Newsletter…
Redfin sends out a monthly newsletter that digests all the real estate news from 20 – 30 sources into one portrait of what’s going on
What Would Apple Do? Don't Ask
For years, it has been fashionable for business-people to approach any problem — choking baby, lonely Friday, cold soup, global warming — by asking Jeff
Is It User-Friendly or Google-Friendly?
In what became the most-discussed post of the day, a mystery author argued yesterday on TechCrunch for regulating Google’s algorithm for ranking search results and
The Naked Truth is Out: Redfin is Profitable
The Naked Truth is over. Every terrace of the Olympic Sculpture Park was packed. All the panelists were mobbed. And we announced our big news:
