Company News

Redfin CEO Email on New Hybrid-Office Policy
Our CEO, Glenn Kelman, sent this email to all Redfin employees at 2:00 p.m. PDT on April 23, 2023. For the public posting, we removed

Redfin Expands to the Colorado Rockies
Today, Redfin launched its brokerage service in the Colorado Rockies! That means homebuyers and sellers in Summit, Eagle, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Lake and Park counties

Diversity at Redfin in 2022
Every March, Redfin publishes a diversity report summarizing changes in our workforce over the previous year. In 2022, the percentage of overall employees who are

Redfin Premier is Available Nationwide!
Today, Redfin expanded its Redfin Premier luxury real estate service nationwide. That means consumers can now work with an expert Redfin Premier agent to buy

Redfin Premier Launches for Luxury Homebuyers
Today, we’re making Redfin Premier service available to qualified homebuyers in more than two dozen markets across the U.S. for the very first time. Redfin

Redfin Launches Favorites Lists to Help Organize Your Home Search
If you have a mile-long list of favorite Redfin homes, we have good news for you! It just got a lot easier to keep track
What Starbucks Learned About Learning
As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in
Synchronous/Asynchronous Switching with Varnish
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly
The Hangover
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged
ESI and Caching Trickery in Varnish
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago.
Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala
To kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex
Take Your Child to Work Day – Redfin Style
In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd was also Take Your Child to Work Day. Originally designed as “Take your Daughter to Work Day”