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First Broad Price Increase Seen in Case-Shiller Index
Case-Shiller data for June 2009 came out this morning. Once we adjust for seasonality — home prices tend to increase in the summer — we
Are Listing Agents Hurting Their Clients by Hiding Addresses?
At Redfin, we’ve long been opposed to dual agency, where the same agent represents both seller and buyer. This hasn’t always been an easy call
Redfin's July Newsletter…
Redfin sends out a monthly newsletter that digests all the real estate news from 20 – 30 sources into one portrait of what’s going on
What Would Apple Do? Don't Ask
For years, it has been fashionable for business-people to approach any problem — choking baby, lonely Friday, cold soup, global warming — by asking Jeff
Is It User-Friendly or Google-Friendly?
In what became the most-discussed post of the day, a mystery author argued yesterday on TechCrunch for regulating Google’s algorithm for ranking search results and
The Naked Truth is Out: Redfin is Profitable
The Naked Truth is over. Every terrace of the Olympic Sculpture Park was packed. All the panelists were mobbed. And we announced our big 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
