Company News
Holy Cow! Redfin Agents are Now Cheeseheads Too!
Time to put your cheesehead hat on; Redfin is setting up shop in the heart of Wisconsin, also lovingly known as America’s Dairyland. Residents in
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
RAD is the Redfin Agent Development program. It’s a paid, 18-month apprenticeship that combines classroom learning, on-the-job training and one-on-one mentoring to help teach participants real estate the Redfin way.
Why I Work at Redfin: Jessie Culbert, Builder Services Marketing Manager
It’s not very often that you get a chance to be involved in building something from the ground up. Jessie Culbert talks about how Builder Services, a startup within Redfin, offered her that opportunity.
Redfin Agents Bring New Light to the Sunshine Factory!
Redfin is ready for some serious southern exposure! In addition to serving Phoenix, we are setting up shop in Arizona’s second largest city, Tucson. Residents of Tucson can now work with a local Redfin agent to buy and sell homes and use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market in Tucson including the Northwest, Northeast and Central neighborhoods.
3D Innovation Meets Home Tours: Introducing Redfin 3D Walkthrough
Redfin is the first national real estate brokerage to utilize cutting-edge 3D technology, powered by Matterport, that allows homebuyers to have a high-resolution, interactive view inside a Redfin agent-listed home for sale.
Thinking About Selling Your Home? You’ll Want to Take a Look at This
At Redfin, our goal is to make the entire home-buying and selling process easier, which is why we’re excited to announce the Redfin Home Dashboard, a comprehensive online resource for home sellers.
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
