Company News
Redfin Updates Android App with Home Tour Requests and Sold Home Search
Android fans, listen up! Starting today, you can request an in-person home tour with a Redfin agent directly from your Android phone. You can also find information on SOLD homes, whether they sold yesterday or years ago, using the Redfin Real Estate app for Android
Redfin Posts Open Letter to Zillow on Inman.com
Today, Redfin posted an open letter to Zillow on Inman.com. We are asking for changes to how Zillow displays Redfin listings so consumers can easily
The State of My Industry: Why Real Estate Is Taking So Long to Change
Why, people often ask me, hasn’t technology made real estate better? The answer always surprises them: that technology mostly hasn’t tried.
Redfin Launches Feature To Help House Hunters Juggle Open House Visits
An open house is a great opportunity to tour a property and determine if it’s “the one,” but, until now, keeping track of a day of open house viewings could be overwhelming and confusing for buyers. With the launch of the Redfin Open House Schedule, you no longer have to create spreadsheets or keep track of all the details on paper.
Thousands More New Construction Homes Now Searchable on Redfin!
What’s new? Thousands of homes for sale on Redfin, that’s what! And by new, we mean brand spankin’ new: Homebuyers who want to be the first to live in a home can now search Redfin.com and Redfin’s mobile apps to find just-built homes in 23 markets.
SXSW 2014: Glenn Kelman on Why the Next $50B Business Won’t Be A Website
In a few short days, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman will present at SXSW 2014’s Interactive Conference. In his Sunday presentation, “Why the Next $50B Business Won’t be a Website,” Glenn will elaborate on an accelerating wave of entrepreneurialism known as the end-to-end movement (#End2End) that’s set to revolutionize industries in need of some tech-savvy savoir-faire.
School Reviews, a Mortgage Guide and Better Performance!
Big news! After a long hiatus in which all our software development was focused on tools for our agents to schedule tours and monitor deals,
Time to Get Our Hands Dirty
Have you read Andy Grove’s magnificent essay on Silicon Valley’s ability to create jobs? A reaction to Tom Friedman’s column “Startups, Not Bailouts,” it’s much
It’s Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
It's Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
“You Should Be Urinating Right Now” (A Real-Time Web Server)
As part of our Engineer-to-Engineer series of talks on topics such as Hadoop, Scala, HTML5, Cassandra and Clusto, Redfin invited Ryan Dahl to speak last Wednesday on Node.JS, a web
HTML 5 vs. Native Applications
Every month or so, as part of a series of talks called Engineer-2-Engineer (E2E), one of the gods of software engineering descends into the San
