Company News
All-Hands Email on November Layoff
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 5:45 a.m. PDT on November 9, 2022. For the public posting, we removed
Redfin Launches in Wilmington, North Carolina and Green Bay, Wisconsin
Consumers in Wilmington, North Carolina and Green Bay, Wisconsin can now work with Redfin agents to buy and sell homes! Redfin first opened its brokerage
Redfin Adds Down Payment Assistance Information to Listing Pages
It’s not easy to save for a home these days, with pandemic-induced home price gains putting the pressure on buyers to come up with nearly
Redfin Launches in Hilton Head, South Carolina and Expands Listing Search to Over 95% of the U.S. Population
Redfin agents are ready to start helping people buy and sell homes in Hilton Head, South Carolina! We launched our brokerage in South Carolina in
How Redfin Ended Up on a Reality TV Show
This Friday, Netflix is premiering six episodes of a reality-TV show featuring Redfin. On the show, called Buy My House, people try to sell their
Meet Redfin’s Head of Industry Relations
We’re pleased to announce Joe Rath is our new director of industry relations! In his new role, Joe will build Redfin’s relationships with multiple listing
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
