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Elephant versus Dolphin: Which is Faster? Which is Smarter?
vs. Redfin recently switched some of our backend DB infrastructure from MySQL to Postgres, and we plan to wholly switch to Postgres in the near
Dear College Students: Intern at a Startup
Hi, I’m the Redfin intern that apparently asked our CEO’s wife out. I wanted to share my experience here at Redfin in hopes of helping
$549,999 is A Better Price for Your Home Than $550,001 (5% Better)
With more than 70% of home-buyers looking on the Web for real estate to buy, we wondered if it made sense when pricing a house
Making Real Estate Search Faster and More Local
Some things are universal, such as when you click on a link you want an instant reaction. Redfin’s response time hasn’t been as fast as
Redfin, By the Numbers, And an Experiment
After popping up on TechCrunch and BusinessWeek Friday and in Slashdot over the weekend, Redfin appeared on Guy Kawasaki’s blog today, in a post comparing
Getting the Time Zone from a Web Browser
Writing rich date/time features in a web app can be a pain. Apps (such as schedulers) that do math on times (e.g. ordering times) should

Sell Your High-End Home for More Money and Save Thousands With A Redfin Premier Agent
Homes listed by Redfin agents in 2019 sold for more money, with less risk and in fewer days than homes listed by other brokerages.

Dream a Little Bigger
Redfin was featured in an Amazon Web Services case study; here’s why.

These First-Time Homebuyers Captured a Unicorn: A Good Home at a Great Price
How one family managed to snag a deal in a competitive market.

Want to Help the Middle Class? More Houses, Please
The U.S. is building new homes at about half the historical rate, and it’s causing our cities to become unaffordable.

Why I Work at Redfin: Marshall Park
Hear what a long-time real estate agent has to say about what it’s like to work at Redfin.
Redfin Experimenting with iBeacon
How Redfin engineers explored ways to incorporate Apple’s iBeacon into exciting customer experiences.