Howdy Redfinnians! Time for our monthly tell-you-everything analysis of the real estate market! We just hit $5 billion in home sales, where Redfin agents represented either the buyer or the seller, all in our don’t-crowd-me-baby style. For every customer, deal or no deal, Redfin surveyed the customer and published the answer. And on every home, […]
Big news Redfinnians! Redfin just raised $15 million, mostly on the strength of nice revenue growth and very, very happy customers. Since launching our service with one Seattle real estate agent in 2006, we’ve closed about $6 billion in home sales, with a customer satisfaction rate of 97%. Consumers have saved $85 million in commissions. […]
While some housing pundits are talking about demand being “overwhelmed by supply” and others are throwing out estimates of an “excess supply” of over 3 million homes, buyers that we are serving across the country keep telling us the same thing over and over this spring: “Selection stinks!” Worse yet, when they do finally find […]
If you've been shopping for a home lately, you've probably encountered more than a few listings that are either bank-owned (REO) or short sales. What kinds of things could we learn about distressed sales that would really help a buyer who is thinking of making an offer on one?
Earlier this week we published another round of Insider Reports on our local blogs in Seattle, the Bay Area, Washington/Baltimore, Chicago, and new this month: Boston. Our local experts around the country combined a look into Redfin’s vast database of market data with the read from our agents in the field to bring you the […]