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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

Redfin CEO Email on New Hybrid-Office Policy
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 23, 2023. For the public posting, we removed

Redfin Expands to the Colorado Rockies
Today, Redfin launched its brokerage service in the Colorado Rockies! That means homebuyers and sellers in Summit, Eagle, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Lake and Park counties

Diversity at Redfin in 2022
Every March, Redfin publishes a diversity report summarizing changes in our workforce over the previous year. In 2022, the percentage of overall employees who are

Redfin Premier is Available Nationwide!
Today, Redfin expanded its Redfin Premier luxury real estate service nationwide. That means consumers can now work with an expert Redfin Premier agent to buy

Redfin Premier Launches for Luxury Homebuyers
Today, we’re making Redfin Premier service available to qualified homebuyers in more than two dozen markets across the U.S. for the very first time. Redfin

Redfin Launches Favorites Lists to Help Organize Your Home Search
If you have a mile-long list of favorite Redfin homes, we have good news for you! It just got a lot easier to keep track