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School Reviews, a Mortgage Guide and Better Performance!
Big news! After a long hiatus in which all our software development was focused on tools for our agents to schedule tours and monitor deals,
Time to Get Our Hands Dirty
Have you read Andy Grove’s magnificent essay on Silicon Valley’s ability to create jobs? A reaction to Tom Friedman’s column “Startups, Not Bailouts,” it’s much
It’s Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
It's Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
“You Should Be Urinating Right Now” (A Real-Time Web Server)
As part of our Engineer-to-Engineer series of talks on topics such as Hadoop, Scala, HTML5, Cassandra and Clusto, Redfin invited Ryan Dahl to speak last Wednesday on Node.JS, a web
HTML 5 vs. Native Applications
Every month or so, as part of a series of talks called Engineer-2-Engineer (E2E), one of the gods of software engineering descends into the San
Survey Says… Redfin's Best-Kept Secret is Its Customer Service
Redfin surveys people every day, all day: when they tour homes, when they make offers, when they cancel listings, when they sell their house. It’s
Survey Says… Redfin’s Best-Kept Secret is Its Customer Service
Redfin surveys people every day, all day: when they tour homes, when they make offers, when they cancel listings, when they sell their house. It’s
Chris Neitzert Sorts Through Charred Rubble of Redfin Datacenter
There was a fire in the Seattle-based data center that Redfin uses to host our web servers, causing a loss of service between approximately 5
First-Hand Advice on Short Sales from Redfin Forums
There is a juicy conversation about short sales on the Redfin Bay Area Forums, from the rare bird who successfully completed a short sale (which
Getting Good Deals in a Tough Market: 7 Negotiating Techniques
The two most dreaded words in real estate today must be “low” and “baller.” So publishing a how-to guide for lowballers is a little like
No One's Going to Take Away Our Data, But What Can We Do With It?
In September 2005, just as Redfin was raising its first round of funding, the Department of Justice sued the National Association of Realtors for developing
