Company News
Elephant versus Dolphin: Which is Faster? Which is Smarter?
vs. Redfin recently switched some of our backend DB infrastructure from MySQL to Postgres, and we plan to wholly switch to Postgres in the near
Dear College Students: Intern at a Startup
Hi, I’m the Redfin intern that apparently asked our CEO’s wife out. I wanted to share my experience here at Redfin in hopes of helping
$549,999 is A Better Price for Your Home Than $550,001 (5% Better)
With more than 70% of home-buyers looking on the Web for real estate to buy, we wondered if it made sense when pricing a house
Making Real Estate Search Faster and More Local
Some things are universal, such as when you click on a link you want an instant reaction. Redfin’s response time hasn’t been as fast as
Redfin, By the Numbers, And an Experiment
After popping up on TechCrunch and BusinessWeek Friday and in Slashdot over the weekend, Redfin appeared on Guy Kawasaki’s blog today, in a post comparing
Getting the Time Zone from a Web Browser
Writing rich date/time features in a web app can be a pain. Apps (such as schedulers) that do math on times (e.g. ordering times) should
New Tool At Your Fingertips: Redfin Home Sale Calculator
The Redfin Home Sale Calculator will help you approximate what you’ll net when you sell, evaluating your outstanding mortgage and variable costs that vary by city, county, and state.
Redfin Ends Commission Savings for Oregon Homebuyers
In Oregon today, Redfin is ending our commission savings for home-buyers, for any customers who have not begun touring homes with a Redfin agent by June 15, 2013. We will continue to charge 1.5% of the final sale price as our fee for representing home-sellers, and will continue to offer commission savings to home-buyers in the 21 other markets we serve.
Redfin hosts Seattle Startup Weekend 2013
54 hours. For many, that might be enough time for a relaxing trip to the beach or a weekend with friends, but for the 106
Redfin to Host Seattle Startup Weekend June 7-9
We are very excited to announce that we’ll be hosting Seattle Startup Weekend this Friday through Sunday at Redfin’s headquarters! The event will bring together more than 100 entrepreneurs from around the country, who will share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.
Move Over, Kimye. Here Comes the RedfInland Empire!
Today Redfin announced the expansion of its home-buying and selling service to California’s Inland Empire.
Welcome to Miami! (¡Bienvenido a Miami!)
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re on a bit of an expansion spree, with the addition of Charlotte and the Triangle in North Carolina, Delaware,
