Company News

Let’s Honky-Tonk in Tennessee! Redfin Home-Buying and Selling Services Arrive in Nashville and Memphis
People in Nashville and Memphis can now work with local Redfin agents and can use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market.

Redfin Arrives in Southwest Florida!
Redfin brings its real estate brokerage to Southwest Florida, including Fort Myers and Naples.

Looking Back Over Another Crazy Year With Thanks
In 2014 Redfin expanded it’s service, launched new technology to improve home buying and selling, and saved our clients millions of dollars in fees. Here, we take a look back at another crazy year.

Redfin Raises $70.9 Million from Major Institutional Investors
Redfin today announced an investment of $70.9 million, led by large institutional investors including Wellington Management Company, LLP.

Redfin Arrives in New Jersey!
Redfin has arrived in the Garden State, serving homebuyers and sellers from Cape May to Morristown and along the shoreline to South New Jersey. People can now work with local Redfin agents to buy and sell homes in New Jersey and can use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search homes on the market.

Pikes Peak or Bust! Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Colorado Springs!
We’ve got big news for people in Colorado Springs! Once you’ve finished summiting Pikes Peak or hiking through Garden of the Gods, you can now work with local Redfin agents to buy and sell homes, too! You can also use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market in the Colorado Springs metro area and El Paso County as well as Monument, Palmer Lake, Woodmoor, Black Forest, Falcon, Fountain, Security-Widefield and Woodland Park.

The State of My Industry: Why Real Estate Is Taking So Long to Change
Why, people often ask me, hasn’t technology made real estate better? The answer always surprises them: that technology mostly hasn’t tried.

Redfin Launches Feature To Help House Hunters Juggle Open House Visits
An open house is a great opportunity to tour a property and determine if it’s “the one,” but, until now, keeping track of a day of open house viewings could be overwhelming and confusing for buyers. With the launch of the Redfin Open House Schedule, you no longer have to create spreadsheets or keep track of all the details on paper.

Thousands More New Construction Homes Now Searchable on Redfin!
What’s new? Thousands of homes for sale on Redfin, that’s what! And by new, we mean brand spankin’ new: Homebuyers who want to be the first to live in a home can now search Redfin.com and Redfin’s mobile apps to find just-built homes in 23 markets.

SXSW 2014: Glenn Kelman on Why the Next $50B Business Won’t Be A Website
In a few short days, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman will present at SXSW 2014’s Interactive Conference. In his Sunday presentation, “Why the Next $50B Business Won’t be a Website,” Glenn will elaborate on an accelerating wave of entrepreneurialism known as the end-to-end movement (#End2End) that’s set to revolutionize industries in need of some tech-savvy savoir-faire.

How to Be Unreasonably Happy
My friend, Jon Kraft, the founding CEO of Pandora, asked me to write an essay about a childhood extracurricular activity as part of the launch of his new startup, Thrively, which helps children from all backgrounds discover and pursue their passions in life. With Jon’s permission, we’re republishing the essay.

Redfin.com Will Not Be Affected By the MLS Listing Delay from CLAW
You might have heard the news that the Combined Los Angeles/Westside MLS (CLAW), whose public website is TheMLS.com, has implemented a 48-hour delay on data feeds to websites such as Zillow, Trulia, REALTOR.com, and numerous third party websites. We’d like to reassure our community that Redfin.com will not be affected by this change since we are a real estate brokerage that receives this data instantly.