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Guest Post from My Twin Brother: So Long, World Cup
My twin brother is an old-school letter writer with a Symbian phone. Here’s a note he just sent me about the World Cup, which has
Introducing MultiMarker: The fastest way to add many hundreds or thousands of markers on Google Maps
At Google IO 2009, our fearless leader Sasha Aickin (my boss) demonstrated our high-performance Google Maps utility library to the world; we provided directions explaining
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
Redfin Data Center: Housing Market Data at Your Fingertips
Find out how to use our new resource for free downloadable housing market data.
Introducing Redfin Real-Time
Now you can download and visualize the latest housing market data on the Redfin Data Center.

Sell Your High-End Home for More Money and Save Thousands With A Redfin Premier Agent
Homes listed by Redfin agents in 2019 sold for more money, with less risk and in fewer days than homes listed by other brokerages.
Dream a Little Bigger
Redfin was featured in an Amazon Web Services case study; here’s why.
These First-Time Homebuyers Captured a Unicorn: A Good Home at a Great Price
How one family managed to snag a deal in a competitive market.
Want to Help the Middle Class? More Houses, Please
The U.S. is building new homes at about half the historical rate, and it’s causing our cities to become unaffordable.