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The Broken Tower and the Ivory Tower
Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt renew their argument that real estate brokers aren’t worth 6%, citing a study (PDF) conducted by Stanford economist B. Douglas
Rambo, Meet Silicon Valley…
In one night, Michael Arrington wrote a dazzling refutation of this week’s post on leaving Silicon Valley for Seattle. I have often wondered what midnight
MySQL to Postgres
A couple of weeks ago we released an upgrade to the Redfin site. Some of the changes were obvious: we now support Safari, we show
How Green Was My Valley
The New York Times reports Friday that alone among all the cities hoping to be the next Silicon Valley, Seattle “is actually doing it.” But
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Illinois General Assembly is now considering HB4313, a bill that would make it illegal for any licensed real estate agents to “give or pay
The 1st & 2nd Moments of Consumer Delight
Reacting to Thursday’s announcement about the new “Freakish Depth” release of Redfin.com, Austin asset manager Lani Anglin-Rosales wrote an analysis of Redfin’s brand for national
Redfin Creates a Marketplace for Agents
Redfin released a sprawling, glorious update to our website last night that changes Redfin in two fundamental ways: We built data-driven agent profiles, showing every
Announcing SitemapGen4j 1.0
Redfin is happy to announce SitemapGen4j 1.0. SitemapGen4j is a library to generate XML sitemaps in Java. Download SitemapGen4j 1.0 What’s an XML sitemap? Quoting
Improved Geocoding, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Map
Those of us on the Redfin data team see every data problem that gets reported by our users. Of course, if we were to respond
How I Look at Resumes
“Life,” William James once said, “is in the transitions.” He wasn’t talking about weddings and graduations, but the lonely moments before, when a decision still
What We’re Losing
We learned this weekend that Seattle may be on the verge of closing its second newsaper, the Seattle PI. A few days earlier, Clay Shirky
What We're Losing
We learned this weekend that Seattle may be on the verge of closing its second newsaper, the Seattle PI. A few days earlier, Clay Shirky
