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Redfin Launches in Canada!
Torontonians can now sell homes at a 1 percent listing fee with full-service local Redfin agents

Hello, Canada! Redfin will launch in Toronto and Vancouver!
Buyers and sellers in Toronto and Vancouver will soon be able to work with Redfin agents

Diversity at Redfin in 2018
The good news this year is that women’s representation increased across the board, and we made strides in hiring more Black and Latinx employees.
Redfin Welcomes Aaron Noe as National Head of Renovations
Noe will oversee renovations for RedfinNow. RedfinNow buys homes directly from homeowners giving them a way to sell their home quickly with more certainty and less stress.

Redfin Concierge Now Available in Seattle!
Power is shifting away from sellers in Seattle. With homes taking longer to sell and buyers becoming pickier, Redfin Concierge gives sellers peace of mind knowing their home will have a great debut.

What I learned from 100 homeowners facing foreclosure in 2009
And, how my background in behavioral economics will inform my perspective as Redfin’s chief economist
Welcome Microsoftlings, We Love You
A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the
Lightweight Headless Test for Trailing Commas in JavaScript
Yesterday one of my co-workers spent hours reproducing and tracking down a bug that turned out to be a stray comma. Unfortunately, Microsoft Internet Explorer
Should Yammer Really Be Called Crammer?
Have you heard? Yammer is Twitter for corporations. On Monday it launched. On Wednesday, it won TechCrunch50’s top prize. By this morning, Yammer was reporting
Honey, I Shrunk the Startups!
Barack Obama and John McCain are going to spend the next two months arguing over the economy, mostly about how to foster innovation. The politicians
Message in a Bottle
We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map
TechCrunch Asks the $24,000 Question
A strange thing happened in online real estate last Friday. After three years of fierce competition and $100+ million in venture capital, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld