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Hey Beautiful, Upload Your Photo!
Big news! Redfin upgraded its website last night to improve the performance of map-based search, which is quite zippy now. The site has been creaking
Fifty Agents Say So Long to Redfin
It isn’t easy building a network of high-quality real estate agents, even if you’re a real estate agent yourself. Redfin just removed 50 partner agents
Endurance
It’s fashionable these days to talk about a startup as a roller–coaster, with ups and downs, flips and flame-outs, twists and turns. There’s some truth
Time to Shake Things Up Again!
Whoa! Redfin just launched a big new upgrade on our website, showing customers our real estate agents‘ comments about the listings we’ve toured. We call
Boilerplate JDBC Wrapper
Boilerplate code to wrap implementations of important JDBC interfaces
Real Estate Confidential: What I Learned About How the Industry Really Works
You know those movies where someone accidentally discovers the truth behind a great secret, in a warehouse of UFOs or a file on who shot
Stealth Internship: Collections
Kelsey, a Product Manager (PM) intern here at Redfin over the summer, took a non-traditional approach to writing about her summer internship – she created
A Beautiful Find
Redfin today launched Redfin Collections, a gorgeous new Redfin.com feature for you to share sets of listing photos with your friends, your real estate agent
Tour of Duty
Starting today, you’ll be able to request an in-person home tour with a Redfin agent right from your iPhone or iPad. Now, when you see
Why Do People Become Redfin Agents?
Big news! Redfin just published a video about why people become Redfin agents. I make a corny appearance at the beginning and the end, but
The Fiscal Cliff and the Cap on Mortgage Interest Deductions: Real Home-Buyers React
The National Association of Realtors is working in deadly earnest to kill the cap on mortgage interest deductions, though it is widely favored by economists of all stripes. We asked 1,084 active home-buyers how the uncertainty over the deduction was affecting their decision-making process…
What the Housing Market Has to Be Thankful for in 2012
Here is Redfin’s monthly email newsletter, with a little about Redfin and a lot about what’s happening in the real estate market. Happy holidays! We
