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Redfin hosts Seattle Startup Weekend 2013
54 hours. For many, that might be enough time for a relaxing trip to the beach or a weekend with friends, but for the 106

Redfin to Host Seattle Startup Weekend June 7-9
We are very excited to announce that we’ll be hosting Seattle Startup Weekend this Friday through Sunday at Redfin’s headquarters! The event will bring together more than 100 entrepreneurs from around the country, who will share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.

Move Over, Kimye. Here Comes the RedfInland Empire!
Today Redfin announced the expansion of its home-buying and selling service to California’s Inland Empire.

Welcome to Miami! (¡Bienvenido a Miami!)
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re on a bit of an expansion spree, with the addition of Charlotte and the Triangle in North Carolina, Delaware,
Price Your Home Like an Agent Would
Today Redfin launched the Home Value Tool, a new online feature that helps homeowners estimate the value of their home. The tool is the vastly

New Species of Shark Discovered in Puget Sound: Redfin Adopts it as Company Mascot
Today Redfin announced it has adopted a newly discovered species of shark – the Pacific Redfin Shark – as its new mascot. On March 28
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 —