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If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
We Blew Up the Call Center (And We Launched Atlanta)
The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But

MLS Outage Impacting Real Estate Services and Housing Market Reporting
Update as of August 24, 2023: The outage has been resolved in most of the affected markets. Agents in these areas are now able to

Redfin Adds Wind Risk Data for U.S. Homes
This week, Redfin became the first brokerage to publish wind risk data for nearly every U.S. home for sale on Redfin.com. That means you can

Redfin CEO Slack Message on Affirmative Action Ruling
In response to employee questions about how the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling would affect Redfin’s diversity policies, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman posted this message

Hundreds of Redfin Agents Named to ‘America’s Best’ Ranking by RealTrends
More than 900 Redfin agents were named today on the RealTrends’ list of America’s Best Real Estate Professionals! This is an independently verified ranking of

An Update to Redfin’s Values
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees on May 24, 2023. For the public posting, we removed links to our intranet.

Redfin Launches ChatGPT Plugin to Help People Find Their Next Home
Today, we launched a Redfin ChatGPT plugin to help people find homes that are a great fit for them. It was built with OpenAI, an