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Why I Joined Redfin: Ted Chen
Ted Chen is a Redfin Premier agent in the Bay Area. He joined Redfin in December 2023 after building a successful team at eXp Realty.
Redfin Supports Consumer Choice in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Senate Committee on Government Operations is considering a bill to ensure homeowners who sell their homes “For Sale by Owner” (FSBO) can advertise
Introducing Redfin Redesign, an AI-Powered Tool to Redesign Listing Photos
Today, Redfin is making it a little easier to see the potential in your future home! Introducing Redfin Redesign, an AI-powered tool that lets you
Redfin Adds 40,000 New Listings and Fresh Features for New Construction Buyers
Redfin is making it easier for buyers to discover new construction homes! This week we added more than 40,000 new construction listings to Redfin’s website
Change Comes to the Real Estate Industry
A jury today issued a verdict in the Sitzer-Burnett federal class-action lawsuit finding that the National Association of Realtors and major real estate franchisors conspired
A New Day for the Brokerage Industry: Redfin Next
In San Francisco and Los Angeles, Redfin is launching a new pay plan offering the agents we employ traditional commission splits, paired with Redfin’s customers,
The Best Blog Post I’ve Read in a Long Time
Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day,
What Starbucks Learned About Learning
As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in
Synchronous/Asynchronous Switching with Varnish
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly
The Hangover
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged
ESI and Caching Trickery in Varnish
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago.
Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala
To kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex
