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How to Honor Black History Month
A note about how Black history is shaping a new generation of builders and entrepreneurs.
Redfin Adds New Data & Search Features For Homes on Redfin.com
House hunters can take advantage of new search filters and view more data on climate risk, school ratings, and neighborhood amenities Over the past several
Redfin Employees Donate More Than $1.5 Million to Nonprofits Supporting Underserved Homebuyers
In August 2020, we launched an initiative called Redfin Rise to build a path to homeownership for working-class families. It’s an extension of our mission
Redfin is Acquiring Bay Equity Home Loans
Today we announced an agreement to acquire Bay Equity Home Loans, a national, full-service mortgage lender for $135 million in cash and stock. Founded in
Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites
We recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com. We were considering this because we’re very much focused on answering all the questions
Redfin Offers Electric-Vehicle Subsidy to Agents and Other Employees
For Redfin agents, listing photographers and other folks who drive to houses all over town, Redfin is now paying a $5,000 subsidy for used or
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
