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Why I Joined Redfin: Jin Hong
Jin Hong is a Redfin Premier agent in Orange County, CA. He joined Redfin in June 2024 after building a successful team at eXp. We
Why I Joined Redfin: Trevor Kemp
Trevor Kemp is a Redfin principal agent on Long Island, New York. He joined Redfin in June 2024 after more than a decade at East
Redfin Welcomes June Agent Hires
It’s my honor to introduce you to our June Newfins! I’m excited to welcome this group of talented lead agents and look forward to seeing
Homeowners Can Now Use Redfin Redesign For Their Home Photos!
It’s official—Redfin Redesign is now available for both homebuyers and sellers! As of today, any homeowner can now upload a photo of their home and
Redfin Welcomes May Agent Hires
Summer is here, and so is a new group of incredible agents who are joining Redfin! Please join me in welcoming all of the talented
Hundreds of Redfin Agents Named to RealTrends Verified Top Agent Ranking
It’s a big day at Redfin as more than 600 of our agents were named among the country’s most successful real estate agents by RealTrends
Guest Post from My Twin Brother: So Long, World Cup
My twin brother is an old-school letter writer with a Symbian phone. Here’s a note he just sent me about the World Cup, which has
Introducing MultiMarker: The fastest way to add many hundreds or thousands of markers on Google Maps
At Google IO 2009, our fearless leader Sasha Aickin (my boss) demonstrated our high-performance Google Maps utility library to the world; we provided directions explaining
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
