Company News
Who’s Rocking Red Pants This Month?
When your real estate agent takes the time to mount your flat-screen TV and caulk your dryer vent after helping you buy your dream home, you know you’ve found someone who truly takes customer service to heart. It’s that kind of dedication that earned Bob Plessinger and Karen Collins our first-ever “Red Pants Award,” which recognizes great client service.
Oahu Native Mike DeMello Opens Redfin Office on the Island
Oahu native Mike DeMello has opened a Redfin office on the island, which means people can now find real estate in Hawaii on Redfin.com and work with Redfin agents to buy or sell a home.
Why I Work at Redfin: Sonal Basu, Agent Relations
No two days are the same when you’re a real estate agent. I love that the job has given me the opportunity to wear a number of different hats.
Redfin Agents Arrive in South Carolina and Nebraska
Redfin today announced the launch of its home-buying and selling services in Columbia and Greenville, South Carolina, as well as in Omaha, Nebraska. People in these areas can now search for homes on Redfin.com and the Redfin iOS and Android apps.
Redfin Arrives in New Hampshire!
Redfin hired industry veteran Mark Callahan to lead the business in New Hampshire. Mark is already on the ground touring homes with buyers and guiding them through the offer, negotiation and closing processes, and helping people sell their homes.
Redfin ‘Last Call’ Service Informs You When a Home is About to Sell
Redfin launched a new service called “Last Call,” which informs house hunters when a home is about to sell so they can make an offer on it right away.
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
