Company News

Introducing the Redfin Estimate
Big news! Redfin today launched the Redfin Estimate, developed to be the most accurate estimate of your home’s value.

Meet the Designers Behind the New Redfin Yard Sign: Lindy Kanand & Angela Salvo
Learn what went into the creation of the new Redfin yard sign.

Why I Work at Redfin: Andrew Chen
We sat down with Andrew in the San Francisco office to get his perspective on what makes Redfin stand out in Silicon Valley, what he values most working in the tech industry and why he chose to get involved with a tech brokerage.

Is a Real Estate Career for You? Redfin Hosts George Mason Students
Last Friday, as a part of Take a Patriot to Work Day, Redfin agents in Northern Virginia hosted several students from George Mason University to give them an inside look at life inside a busy real estate brokerage.

Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Birmingham
Birmingham residents can now work with our real estate agents to buy or sell a home.

Load Testing with Taurus
When you’re developing new functionality on an existing website, especially on a hot new young fresh startup like Redfin, you can get really excited about
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
Tracey Foley
A Boston-area Redfin field agent was arrested today by the FBI on charges of being a Russian spy. In her job application, she identified herself
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
Engineer-to-Engineer: Evolving a New Analytical Platform with Hadoop
In the second installment of our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures, Jeff Hammerbacher described the challenges of building data-intensive, distributed applications and how using