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Five Reasons Why Redfin Loves Hackathons
As a technology-powered real estate brokerage, we love building online tools that put information at the fingertips of our customers and real estate agents. Day-in

Redfins Hosts Udacity Meetup at Seattle Headquarters
Since Redfin is a real estate brokerage AND a technology company, we understand the importance of technical training, which is why we were happy to host the Udacity Seattle Meetup today!

Inman Names Redfin Most Innovative Real Estate Brokerage
We are proud to report that Inman News named Redfin the Most Innovative Real Estate Brokerage of 2013 as part of its Innovator Awards, which
Why The Market Can’t Keep Going Up (Wait, It Just Went Up)
Here is Redfin’s quarterly email newsletter, with a little about Redfin and a lot about what’s happening in the real estate market.
New Tool At Your Fingertips: Redfin Home Sale Calculator
The Redfin Home Sale Calculator will help you approximate what you’ll net when you sell, evaluating your outstanding mortgage and variable costs that vary by city, county, and state.

Redfin Ends Commission Savings for Oregon Homebuyers
In Oregon today, Redfin is ending our commission savings for home-buyers, for any customers who have not begun touring homes with a Redfin agent by June 15, 2013. We will continue to charge 1.5% of the final sale price as our fee for representing home-sellers, and will continue to offer commission savings to home-buyers in the 21 other markets we serve.

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.