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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
What Happened to Redfin’s Data Download Feature?
A few months back, we released a new version of the site that let our customers download listing stats and past sales data to a
Fun with generate_series
A few months ago I attended the PostgreSQL conference in Portland, OR. There were a lot of talks ranging from hard-core stuff like Neil Conway‘s
Redfin Forums: Say Your Piece
Our discussion board, creatively named Redfin Forums after an agonizingly long brainstorm session, was started to give home buyers a place to gripe about home
Attack of the Clones
Most of us spend our lives trying to forget the world we had imagined for ourselves as children. But occasionally a single act is so
Correcting the Weighted Average in the Redfin Advantage
Redfin reported on the Redfin Advantage last month, analyzing 65,242 records from the Multiple Listing Services that brokers use to share listing data in the
Something I've Been Meaning to Say for A Long Time
For no real reason, a San Diego Sweet Digs blogger attacked real estate broker Kris Berg today. The contract blogger, a usually kind person who
