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Redfin Agents have Arrived in Bend, Oregon!
Back in 1901, pioneers fording the Deschutes River decided to settle near a river bend on the eastern edge of the Cascade mountains. The small
Meet Our Inspiring CTO, Bridget Frey
Bridget Frey began exploring computers at the age of 5, leading her on a path to become the chief technology officer of Redfin and an inspiration for us all.
Redfin Agents Arrive in Charleston, South Carolina!
People in the friendliest city in the U.S. can now buy and sell homes with the friendliest real estate agents because Redfin is now serving Charleston!
Azure Northwest Homes Coming to Tehaleh
The epitome of Northwest living, the Tehaleh community in Bonney Lake is nestled on 4,000 acres of elevated forest land, with mountain views and 7.5 miles of forested trails. You can own your own little slice of nature when the community welcomes 32 new single-family homes from Azure Northwest Homes later this year.
Q&A: Developing the Redfin App for Apple Watch
Redfin’s chief technology officer, Bridget Frey, answers some common questions about the Redfin app for Apple Watch.
Redfin Agents Arrive in Pittsburgh!
Redfin couldn’t be happier about serving the good people of Pittsburgh. We love a city where the sports fans are fans win or lose, and the passion for football and hockey are rivaled only by love of music and history.
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
