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Paradise Found: Redfin for Android
What was unnerving about the career of English poet John Milton was his unshakable conviction beginning in adolescence that he would write Christianity’s great poem,
Are We In A Bubble? Just Ask The Customers
Everybody knows the story: in the first Internet boom, new companies rode high on staggering losses only to face bankruptcy once the music stopped. At
Memo to Amazon: Pay the Sales Tax & Put Everyone Else in E-Commerce Six Feet Under
We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight
Memo to Amazon: Pay the Sales Tax & Put Everyone Else in E-Commerce Six Feet Under
We revere Amazon, and generally try not to give other companies advice. But does anyone know why Amazon doesn’t give up the state sales-tax fight
The American Dream, Before and After
Here, from a Google Street View photo take just a few years ago, is a portrait of the American dream: And here, after eight re-financings,
Home Prices Stabilize, And the Whole Market Grinds to a Halt
Every month, Redfin publishes two newsletters on real estate prices. One, usually published on the last Tuesday of every month, is a Redfin Roundup, which
Redfin’s March Madness Comes to NPR
Out of nowhere last week, an NPR producer sent us a note asking about Redfin’s March Madness plans. At first I thought she was talking
How to Have a Good Time
“If there’s one thing I know how to do,” a friend once told me, after one of those long, grappa-fueled nights of ping-pong that make
Fighting Illini (Anti-Rebate Bill “Crushed”)
A bill introduced by the Illinois legislature to outlaw refunding real estate commissions to consumers, which we complained about last month, finally died today. An
Plumbing Upgrade: We’re Using Bricolage For Content Management
Believe it or not, but up until the beginning of March this year, we were not using a Content Management System (CMS). This post will
The Red Carpet: Burritos y Beer y Real Estate Website
Last fall we opened our doors for a live real estate mashup dubbed The Red Carpet; a sort of customer meets agent and engineer free-for-all.
The Little Website That Could
Like a hideously tortured beast finally broken free of its chains, Redfin’s engineering team has been on the rampage this winter, releasing the second major
