Company News

Redfin Agents Take Home Top State Awards
We’re excited to congratulate the Redfin agents from across the country who were named to the REAL Trends List of America’s Best Real Estate Agents

Why I Work at Redfin: Kelsey Tempel, Product Manager
My love story with Redfin began when I received a call from a Redfin recruiter on Feb. 14, 2012, regarding a computer science internship. It seems appropriate that my relationship with a company I have grown to love started on Valentine’s Day.

An extension to find CSS selectors
Soon after I started working at Redfin at the beginning of February, I was introduced to the browser automation tool Selenium Webdriver. Regretfully I
Hot or Not? Redfin “Hot Homes” Show Buyers When to Move Quickly
Today we launched Redfin Hot Homes, a new feature that identifies which homes for sale are likely to sell quickly, and highlights these homes throughout Redfin.com.

Redfin Named to CNBC Disruptor 50 List
Redfin made the CNBC Disruptor 50 List, which is a roundup of private companies who are considered disruptors in their respective industries.

Redfin Arrives in Rhode Island!
We have big news for homebuyers and sellers in the nation’s smallest state! Residents in the entire state of Rhode Island can now work with

Alone, Just the Two of Us
I’d just sat down last month for a chat with the CEO of a very successful startup when his co-founder, the company’s chairman, walked into
Javascript Prototype and Multiple Inheritance with dojo.declare
Coming from the C++ background into javascript programming was a fun ride. I read many blog posts and articles about javascript inheritance, and after reading
May Real Estate Prices Increase 2.2% as Inventory Continues to Fall
Now that Redfin covers about as many markets as the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index, we are publishing our own monthly report on prices, sales volume and inventory: the Redfin Real-Time Price Tracker. Our goal is to offer the deep data access and market insights of a local broker, but on a national scale.
Homes Listed with a Redfin Agent are Viewed Twice as Often
What if we could get our clients’ listings in front of more serious home buyers searching in their neighborhood and give them a better chance of selling for even more money, even faster? That’s just what we set out to do in 2012.
CMSClassUnloadingEnabled at Redfin
tl;dr: If you’re using the CMS collector in Java 6 (-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC) server-side, then you should really consider –XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled Today’s post starts out with a story.
Redfin's Real-Time Home-Buyer Tracker: Buyers Become More Confident
Today, we’re launching the survey results as a regular report, The Redfin Real-Time Home-Buyer Tracker, updated with data for the second quarter of 2012. What we found this quarter mostly is evidence of a strengthening market.