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The Tale of the Tribe
In closing today’s $2-billion sale of Redfin to Rocket, Redfin has made a careful inventory of every asset to convey to our new home: the
Redfin Is Now Powered by Rocket®!
We’re excited to announce that Redfin is now officially part of Rocket Companies! By joining forces with America’s largest mortgage lender¹, Rocket Mortgage, we’re creating
Redfin and Thumbtack Help You Find Pros for Every Home Improvement Project
Summer is here, and it’s prime time for tackling your home improvement projects! We’ve teamed up with Thumbtack to help you breeze through your to-do
Say Hello to Our May Newfins!
April showers bring May flowers, and this season, Redfin is truly blooming—we’re thrilled to welcome more than 40 new real estate agents to our growing
1,000+ Redfin Agents and Teams Named Top Real Estate Professionals by RealTrends Verified
Today is a day of celebration at Redfin, because more than 1,000 Redfin agents—900+ individuals and 120+ teams—were named among the country’s best real estate
Redfin Replay: May Economics Q&A
Keeping up with economic news these days is no small feat, but Redfin’s economics team helps us make sense of it all. In a recent
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
