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DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
Tracey Foley
A Boston-area Redfin field agent was arrested today by the FBI on charges of being a Russian spy. In her job application, she identified herself
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
Engineer-to-Engineer: Evolving a New Analytical Platform with Hadoop
In the second installment of our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures, Jeff Hammerbacher described the challenges of building data-intensive, distributed applications and how using

What Happens to American Cities With High Immigrant Populations
This country’s most intense debate in fifty years is happening today about immigration and our economy.

Redfin Launches Mortgage Business
Redfin Mortgage is the next-generation mortgage lender where the real estate agent, lender and title company are linked on the same system.

Glenn Kelman Receives CEO of the Year Award from Seattle Business Magazine
Last night, Redfin chief executive officer Glenn Kelman was named CEO of the Year at Seattle Business magazine’s Executive Excellence Awards gala.

2016: A Redfin Engineering Year in Review
As we step into the new year, we’re celebrating our major improvements to architecture and process in 2016!

Nela Richardson Offers Advice to College Graduates at UMD Ceremony
On Wednesday, December 21st Redfin Chief Economist Nela Richardson returned to her alma mater at the University of Maryland to give the following address to

My Redfin Internship: Eve Yuan
Eve describes her experience as a dev intern in Seattle.