Company News
Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Birmingham
Birmingham residents can now work with our real estate agents to buy or sell a home.
Load Testing with Taurus
When you’re developing new functionality on an existing website, especially on a hot new young fresh startup like Redfin, you can get really excited about
Redfin’s Year in Mobile – Updates to iOS and Android Apps
The Redfin engineering team has been hard at work this year adding new features and updates to our award-winning mobile apps. With mobile devices now driving two thirds of our traffic, we know how important it is to have access to information on the go.
Using Fresco to Load Images Efficiently on Android
It’s well known that you don’t get a second chance at a first impression and often, it’s the first impression that becomes the lasting memory.
The Second Silicon Valleys
The influx of technology workers will bring more wealth to cities like Portland and Seattle, but also new challenges. We can’t just stick our heads in the sand.
Thoughts on Transitioning to Universal JavaScript
(aka “Thoughts on Transitioning to isomorphic JavaScript”) For the past year, Redfin has been quietly converting our most heavily trafficked pages from being built with
The Cream Rises to the Top
Every year, the Wall Street Journal and Real Trends come out with their list of the 250 top-producing real estate agents in the country for
We’ll Push, You Steer: Instant Updates Available on iPhone & iPad
If you’re a serious home buyer, you’ve been following the news on the housing market about bidding wars, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sales and the depressed and depressing inventory
Alone, Just the Two of Us
I’d just sat down last month for a chat with the CEO of a very successful startup when his co-founder, the company’s chairman, walked into
Javascript Prototype and Multiple Inheritance with dojo.declare
Coming from the C++ background into javascript programming was a fun ride. I read many blog posts and articles about javascript inheritance, and after reading
May Real Estate Prices Increase 2.2% as Inventory Continues to Fall
Now that Redfin covers about as many markets as the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index, we are publishing our own monthly report on prices, sales volume and inventory: the Redfin Real-Time Price Tracker. Our goal is to offer the deep data access and market insights of a local broker, but on a national scale.
Homes Listed with a Redfin Agent are Viewed Twice as Often
What if we could get our clients’ listings in front of more serious home buyers searching in their neighborhood and give them a better chance of selling for even more money, even faster? That’s just what we set out to do in 2012.
