Company News

Redfin Adds New Data & Search Features For Homes on Redfin.com
House hunters can take advantage of new search filters and view more data on climate risk, school ratings, and neighborhood amenities Over the past several

Redfin Employees Donate More Than $1.5 Million to Nonprofits Supporting Underserved Homebuyers
In August 2020, we launched an initiative called Redfin Rise to build a path to homeownership for working-class families. It’s an extension of our mission

Redfin is Acquiring Bay Equity Home Loans
Today we announced an agreement to acquire Bay Equity Home Loans, a national, full-service mortgage lender for $135 million in cash and stock. Founded in

Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites
We recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com. We were considering this because we’re very much focused on answering all the questions

Redfin Offers Electric-Vehicle Subsidy to Agents and Other Employees
For Redfin agents, listing photographers and other folks who drive to houses all over town, Redfin is now paying a $5,000 subsidy for used or

Redfin’s Reduced-Stress Week: Give It a Try!
From August 2 – 6, Redfin tried a meeting-free, no-new-tasks reduced-stress week. It was such a big hit that now we’re going to do it every quarter.
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