Company News
Redfin’s Reduced-Stress Week: Give It a Try!
From August 2 – 6, Redfin tried a meeting-free, no-new-tasks reduced-stress week. It was such a big hit that now we’re going to do it every quarter.
Redfin Partners with ADT to Expand Direct Access
Redfin Direct Access lets buyers self-tour homes with the touch of a button, driving twice as many tours for Redfin’s home-selling customers Today we announced
Career Accelerator Program Brings New, Diverse Talent into the Real Estate Industry
We are pleased to announce our new career accelerator program, which will hire and train 50 new real estate agents in the Seattle and Washington,
Redfin’s Symposium on Black Americans’ Homebuying Journey: Black Buyers Face Higher Hurdles, Agents Should Work Twice As Hard to Combat Discrimination
Key takeaways from the event, which featured data and anecdotes on the difficulties of being a Black homebuyer in America and expert advice on how
Redfin Surpasses $1 Billion in Customer Savings
Redfin Customers Saved an Average of $8,200 in Real Estate Fees in 2020 Redfin just passed a major milestone: we’ve now saved our customers more
We All Support Fair Housing, So Why Are Pocket Listings Up 67%?
This op-ed was originally published on Inman.com. Here’s What To Do About It It turns out you can put a number on whether the housing
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
