Company News
What to Think of When You Want to Smile
Redfin has been showing up all over the place lately. Some Redfin customers were on a Seattle TV news magazine the other night, looking oddly
Bust Out the Chowda! Redfin Stops the The Wheel of Death
Ahoy Redfin friends! Sorry to have been so quiet this month. We’ve been working on a pretty blue site with a pretty new logo, which
The Real Estate Consumer’s Bill of Rights
Redfin launched the real estate consumer’s bill of rights today, which Inman News is blasting out to its hundreds of thousands of real estate subscribers
Pricing Advice: Make the Last 3 Digits -500
There are very few people with Matt Bell’s zeal for negotiating. He is 6’5”, with a large, slow smile that seems to bespeak an unused
DIY Comparative Market Analysis
The old way: explain your real estate needs and desires to an agent, he searches for listings, wait, wait, wait until he shares the details
The Taxman Does Not Cometh
With tax season upon us, folks have been asking and analyzing and holding forth about whether our refunds are taxable as income. We recently got
Almost Famous
After Redfin’s layoff last week, the CEO of a startup down the street emailed to say “at least we’re not public!” Which made me wonder
URL Query Parameters and HTML Entities: The Case of the Missing Semicolon
What’s the difference between this HTML snippet: <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html&foo=0″>foo=0</a> and this? <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html©=0″>copy=0</a> Both of them look like simple Google searches (though they could have
A Very Tough Day
Today Redfin laid off roughly 20% of our employees. Unlike other startups, our industry’s recession started a year ago, when home prices first plunged. Since
"It's Only Going to Get Better for Me"
This is the first in a series of real-time, agent-off-the-record blog posts on what Redfin agents and market managers are seeing in different markets. We promise
"We Were The Cool Guys."
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired
“We Were The Cool Guys.”
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired
