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Why I Joined Redfin: Rob Griffin
Rob Griffin is a Redfin Premier agent in the greater Seattle area, serving buyers and sellers in Snohomish County. He joined Redfin in June 2024
Why I Joined Redfin: Tracy Vasquez
Tracy Vasquez is a Redfin Premier agent serving customers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. She joined Redfin in August 2024 after building a successful
Redfin Welcomes December Agent Hires
Happy 2025, everyone! I love the promise of a new year and all of the possibilities it can bring—and that’s especially true now as we
Redfin Welcomes November Agent Hires
The holiday season is in full swing, and no one is feeling it more than our recruiting team! I want to take a moment to
Redfin Welcomes September and October Agent Hires
Happy holidays, everyone! As we transition into a new season, we’ve had the privilege of welcoming many new faces to Redfin. Please join me in
Redfin Team Profile: Tim Harper of The Legacy Team
Tim Harper is a Redfin Premier agent and Team Lead of The Legacy Team in Ormond Beach, FL. He originally joined Redfin from 2015-2022 to
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
