Company News

Big Companies Versus Startups
Why I left a career in big software companies and took a plunge to work at a late-stage startup

New Construction in Seattle: State of the Market by Redfin Builder Services
The experts at Redfin Builder Services discussed how new construction sales are faring in Seattle’s red-hot market.

Redfin’s Chelsea Goyer Named a HousingWire 2016 Rising Star!
Award recognizes her as one of the most innovative young leaders in the real estate industry today.

How Hibernate’s Lazy Loading Nearly Killed Our Email
Using Hibernate’s FetchMode to improve performance in data-hungry applications

Announcing React Server
Wish your site had blazing fast page loads and seamless transitions between pages? Read on.

Python at Redfin
We hosted PuPPy, the Puget Sound Programming in Python meetup group, in the Redfin Seattle office yesterday — here’s a link to the slides.
Why Home Prices Are Rising. And Some Gorgeous, Weird Listing Photos
Here is Redfin’s monthly email newsletter, with a little about Redfin and a lot about what’s happening in the real estate market. Howdy Redfin Fans!

Redfin Comes to North Carolina
Hooray! Redfin just expanded to Charlotte and The Triangle in North Carolina. To get to know everyone, we’re hosting a party Wednesday, March 6 at

Married… with Real Estate
Searching for homes is not unlike searching for a life partner; it takes a vision for the future, knowing what you want, the ability to

Redfin Publishes Thousands of Real-Time Insights on What It Takes to Win A Bidding War
Redfin just released Offer Insights, which are real-time statistics and notes from Redfin agents about thousands of offers submitted on behalf of our clients. For every neighborhood we serve, our goal is to give you an intimate view of how every deal went down.

Redfin on TechCrunch: The Maximum, Beautiful Product
Happy New Year! On the last day of 2012, Redfin published The Maximum, Beautiful Product, a TechCrunch post questioning whether the lean startup’s relentlessly incremental

The Best Ideas of 2012
Quartz, the Atlantic Monthly’s new business magazine, recently asked me to compile a list of the best ideas to emerge this year from the technology