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From Our CEO: Redfin & Coronavirus
Redfin CEO releases new policies about open houses and home tours. Redfin will still serve buyers and sellers, but with new rules and new technologies.

Housing Demand Holding Up Surprisingly Well, For Now
Redfin CEO addresses questions about how Coronavirus has impacted the housing market for homebuyers and homesellers.

How to Be Alone
Redfin CEO, Glenn Kelman, writes a letter to his staff about the most productive ways to work remotely.

The Housing Market Feels the First Effects of the Coronavirus; Redfin Now Offers On-Demand Virtual Home Tours
Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman explains the impacts the spread of coronavirus is having on Redfin and how we are adapting.

Redfin Supports a Seattle-Area Tax to Fund Homeless Programs
As a technology-powered real estate company, Redfin has already been asked about Washington state’s House Bill 2907, which would let King County tax mostly technology

Redfin Estimate: Now More Accurate and Available for 11 Million More Properties
With continued advancements in AI and machine learning, we can envision a future where the Redfin Estimate becomes a live RedfinNow offer for a subset of properties.
URL Query Parameters and HTML Entities: The Case of the Missing Semicolon
What’s the difference between this HTML snippet: <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html&foo=0″>foo=0</a> and this? <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=html©=0″>copy=0</a> Both of them look like simple Google searches (though they could have
A Very Tough Day
Today Redfin laid off roughly 20% of our employees. Unlike other startups, our industry’s recession started a year ago, when home prices first plunged. Since
"It's Only Going to Get Better for Me"
This is the first in a series of real-time, agent-off-the-record blog posts on what Redfin agents and market managers are seeing in different markets. We promise
"We Were The Cool Guys."
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired
“We Were The Cool Guys.”
Watching the credit crisis destroy Wall Street this week, it was hard not to think of the mortgage episode of “This American Life,” which aired
New Website, New Boston MLS Rules: Unleash The Hounds!
I remember exactly where I was when I got the news that the Boston-area MLS — the database that brokers use to share listings —