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The Web Is Becoming A Gigantic Lead-Generating Contraption for Business-As-Usual
The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Buckman published an article yesterday depicting Redfin as the oddball on an ad-crazed Sand Hill Road. Which is unfortunately true.
Will Work For Food: Why I Left Microsoft for a Startup
I’ve been asked by many of my friends and family why I decided to leave my position at Microsoft, where I was appreciated and rewarded,
Inman Conference: Online Real Estate Starts to Feel Frothy
A few Redfin folks went to last week’s Inman Conference in San Francisco; Inman is a big real estate and technology conference. Like all conferences,
Gary Robinson Died Hungry…
John Cook has always reminded me of Edna Buchanan*, the scoop-crazy crime reporter for the Miami Herald who once overheard a colleague grumble about his
The Naked Truth Goes Straight to Video…
The Naked Truth video is up, on Mixpo instead of YouTube, so we could stream the entire 56:53. This is your chance to hear five
We Had Such A Nice Time…
The Naked Truth party wasn’t the three-ring circus I had hoped it would be. No one arrived by camel. The police didn’t shut the party
The Fiscal Cliff and the Cap on Mortgage Interest Deductions: Real Home-Buyers React
The National Association of Realtors is working in deadly earnest to kill the cap on mortgage interest deductions, though it is widely favored by economists of all stripes. We asked 1,084 active home-buyers how the uncertainty over the deduction was affecting their decision-making process…
What the Housing Market Has to Be Thankful for in 2012
Here is Redfin’s monthly email newsletter, with a little about Redfin and a lot about what’s happening in the real estate market. Happy holidays! We
You Look Beautiful Darling
We’re proud to introduce the new Redfin home details page, which shows the photos, details and history of 35 million U.S. homes, condos, townhomes and
The Last Swashbuckler
Redfin just announced a big milestone: we’ve saved consumers more than $100 million in fees, based on more than $8 billion in home sales, with customer
Redfin Open Book Reaches 10,000 Reviews
Redfin Open Book, our directory of lenders, inspectors, real estate attorneys and escrow agents, just posted its 10,000th review of the service these folks provide,
First Day of School Search
Two years ago, we began publishing ratings and reviews for schools on Redfin.com. Today, we take another major stride toward reinventing real estate in the
