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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
More Gadgets, Please
On hearing this week that Barnes & Noble stock traded up on 140% growth for its e-book reader, the Nook, I had only one thought:
Now You Can Buy Short Sales with Redfin
In the wee hours of the morning we released our latest Redfin upgrade; not only did we upgrade our site, but our service, too. Now,
Right Now, It’s All About the Inventory (August 2011 Roundup)
Every month, Redfin publishes two newsletters on real estate prices. One, usually published on the last Tuesday of every month, is a Redfin Roundup, which
My Critic, Steve Jobs
I have sometimes been a critic of Steve Jobs: for outsourcing manufacturing, overlooking charities, diverting idealists, sidestepping the web or simply demanding the best. But long before
Get Back in the Game
Everything I’ve read about the American economy argues that our most serious problem is the number of able-bodied men and women who in previous generations
Online Message Boards & Communities: “Think of It Like a Nightclub”
Bridget Frey, Redfin’s newest engineering director, recently joined us from Lithium, the software provider for our for-consumers-and-by-consumers online discussion site, Redfin Forums. Bridget hosted a
