Company News

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

Redfin Adds New Data & Search Features For Homes on Redfin.com
House hunters can take advantage of new search filters and view more data on climate risk, school ratings, and neighborhood amenities Over the past several

Redfin Employees Donate More Than $1.5 Million to Nonprofits Supporting Underserved Homebuyers
In August 2020, we launched an initiative called Redfin Rise to build a path to homeownership for working-class families. It’s an extension of our mission

Redfin is Acquiring Bay Equity Home Loans
Today we announced an agreement to acquire Bay Equity Home Loans, a national, full-service mortgage lender for $135 million in cash and stock. Founded in

Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites
We recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com. We were considering this because we’re very much focused on answering all the questions

Redfin Offers Electric-Vehicle Subsidy to Agents and Other Employees
For Redfin agents, listing photographers and other folks who drive to houses all over town, Redfin is now paying a $5,000 subsidy for used or

Redfin’s Reduced-Stress Week: Give It a Try!
From August 2 – 6, Redfin tried a meeting-free, no-new-tasks reduced-stress week. It was such a big hit that now we’re going to do it every quarter.