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Vote for Redfin as the Next Tech Titan
Redfin is a finalist in the Next Tech Titan category for the upcoming GeekWire Awards. Cast your vote for Redfin.
Redfin Teams Up With Move For Hunger
Redfin is partnering with Move For Hunger, a nonprofit organization that benefits food banks nationwide.
Why Redfin Agent Keith Thomas Will Be Wearing Red Pants This Month
Your real estate agent needs to be responsive, available and attentive to your needs, no matter how busy they are. And that’s exactly how the clients of Keith Thomas Jr., a Redfin real estate agent, described him in his review, which earned Keith this month’s “Red Pants Award” for excellent client service.
Redfin Agents Arrive in Knoxville and Oklahoma City
Howdy, neighbor! Redfin is setting up shop in a new neck of the woods, Oklahoma City, and extending its roots in Tennessee to Knoxville. People
Redfin Agents Arrive in Cincinnati, Louisville and Salt Lake City
What do Cincinnati, Louisville and Salt Lake City have in common? Not a whole lot until today when they officially become home to Redfin agents, who are paid based on customer satisfaction! People in these areas can now search for homes on Redfin.com and the Redfin iOS and Android apps.
Redfin Shared Search Makes It Easy for Spouses, Agents and Parents to Work Together on a House Hunt
Today Redfin launched Shared Search, a feature that makes it easy for people who are shopping for a home together to save, share and comment on their favorite homes.
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
