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How to See 20% More Listings, One Week Faster (October Roundup)
Here is Redfin’s monthly email newsletter, with a little about Redfin and a lot about what’s happening in the real estate market. Howdy Redfinnians! Welcome
With a Gap This Big, It’s Sort of Hard Not to Say Something About It
Windermere and Redfin just published a study showing that across 11 major U.S. cities, local broker sites such as Windermere.com, Redfin.com, and LongandFoster.com have about 20+% more agent-listed properties than two national portals, Zillow and Trulia.
All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Hire Smart People Everywhere
Many years ago, one of Redfin’s investors asked Sean Moriarty, former TicketMaster CEO, to take me to lunch. Sean asked only two questions: “Are you
Redfin Real-Time Home Price Tracker: June Prices Increased 3.0%, But Sales Slowing
Across 19 major metropolitan markets, June prices increased 3.0% year over year, and 2.6% month over month. The number of homes for sale declined 25.3% from June 2011 to June 2012, and by 2.4% since May.
The Real-Time Demand Pulse: August Sales Improve Only Moderately Over Prior Year
Redfin is publishing demand data from our own business in a new monthly analysis of thousands of customers touring homes and signing offers with Redfin agents across 18 U.S. markets.
How to hide the toolbar in Eclipse Juno
Update as of 22 Oct 2012 – the latest version of Eclipse Juno now saves toolbar state across application launches. Great news! The original blog
Redfin on TechCrunch: The Maximum, Beautiful Product
Happy New Year! On the last day of 2012, Redfin published The Maximum, Beautiful Product, a TechCrunch post questioning whether the lean startup’s relentlessly incremental
The Best Ideas of 2012
Quartz, the Atlantic Monthly’s new business magazine, recently asked me to compile a list of the best ideas to emerge this year from the technology
Stealth Internship: Collections
Kelsey, a Product Manager (PM) intern here at Redfin over the summer, took a non-traditional approach to writing about her summer internship – she created
A Beautiful Find
Redfin today launched Redfin Collections, a gorgeous new Redfin.com feature for you to share sets of listing photos with your friends, your real estate agent
Tour of Duty
Starting today, you’ll be able to request an in-person home tour with a Redfin agent right from your iPhone or iPad. Now, when you see
Why Do People Become Redfin Agents?
Big news! Redfin just published a video about why people become Redfin agents. I make a corny appearance at the beginning and the end, but
