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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
What Can't Change
There has been plenty of talk lately, from Phil Sugar and Ben Horowitz and from me too, about how you have to be a different
What Can’t Change
There has been plenty of talk lately, from Phil Sugar and Ben Horowitz and from me too, about how you have to be a different
Introducing Redfin 3.0: Redfin Becomes a No-Brainer
***UPDATE AS OF JULY 8, 2014: The Redfin homebuyer refund is calculated on a sliding scale, and varies by market. The average refund is about one-third
In the Land of Steve, Quality Counts for Something
Redfin is now the top-rated real estate application on every major mobile device. This is an objective fact for Android, where Redfin stands clearly above
Will I Make More Money if My Listing Agent Also Represents the Buyer?
A surprising number of U.S. listings – about 1 in 10 — are sold by a real estate agent who also represents the buyer. How, we wondered, does this work out for the seller who originally hired the real estate agent?
Beginning Thursday, Redfin Will Not Display Zillow Listings
Redfin received notice late last Friday that on Thursday, February 9, Zillow will no longer be sending us for-sale-by-owner listings and other manually posted listings