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Why I Work at Redfin: Making a Real Estate Career Possible for Anyone
Three years ago, I helped form our Redfin Agent Development Program, which we call the RAD Program. It’s an apprenticeship program for those coming to real estate out of college or from a different industry.
Why I Work at Redfin: Nikki Kilmer, Redfin Agent
Los Angeles real estate agent Nikki Kilmer describes how she got into the business and what it’s like to work at Redfin.
Redfin Agents have Arrived in Bend, Oregon!
Back in 1901, pioneers fording the Deschutes River decided to settle near a river bend on the eastern edge of the Cascade mountains. The small
Meet Our Inspiring CTO, Bridget Frey
Bridget Frey began exploring computers at the age of 5, leading her on a path to become the chief technology officer of Redfin and an inspiration for us all.
Redfin Agents Arrive in Charleston, South Carolina!
People in the friendliest city in the U.S. can now buy and sell homes with the friendliest real estate agents because Redfin is now serving Charleston!
Azure Northwest Homes Coming to Tehaleh
The epitome of Northwest living, the Tehaleh community in Bonney Lake is nestled on 4,000 acres of elevated forest land, with mountain views and 7.5 miles of forested trails. You can own your own little slice of nature when the community welcomes 32 new single-family homes from Azure Northwest Homes later this year.
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
