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Redfin Agents have Arrived in Reno!
Redfin has arrived in the biggest little city! People can work with a local Redfin real estate agent in Reno to buy and sell homes

Real Estate Just Got Faster: Introducing Book It Now for On-Demand Home Tours
Now you can schedule a tour with a couple of clicks.

Where Will All the Unicorns Go?
What happens when one company after another raises private capital at a multi-billion dollar valuation? No one in Silicon Valley really knows, though we ask ourselves that question every day.

What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town…
How many technology workers does it take to increase home prices? Redfin dug into the data to find out.

Redfin Now Has Real Estate Agents in Dayton, Ohio and Little Rock, Arkansas
Now that Redfin real estate agents have arrived in Dayton, Ohio, and Little Rock, Arkansas, people in more than 70 metro areas across the U.S. can work with Redfin to buy and sell a home.

Change is Good: Chet & Barbara’s Story
Chet and Barbara sold their home in six days and saved $5,445 in commission fees!
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