Company News
Redfin Adds New Data & Search Features For Homes on Redfin.com
House hunters can take advantage of new search filters and view more data on climate risk, school ratings, and neighborhood amenities Over the past several
Redfin Employees Donate More Than $1.5 Million to Nonprofits Supporting Underserved Homebuyers
In August 2020, we launched an initiative called Redfin Rise to build a path to homeownership for working-class families. It’s an extension of our mission
Redfin is Acquiring Bay Equity Home Loans
Today we announced an agreement to acquire Bay Equity Home Loans, a national, full-service mortgage lender for $135 million in cash and stock. Founded in
Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites
We recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com. We were considering this because we’re very much focused on answering all the questions
Redfin Offers Electric-Vehicle Subsidy to Agents and Other Employees
For Redfin agents, listing photographers and other folks who drive to houses all over town, Redfin is now paying a $5,000 subsidy for used or
Redfin’s Reduced-Stress Week: Give It a Try!
From August 2 – 6, Redfin tried a meeting-free, no-new-tasks reduced-stress week. It was such a big hit that now we’re going to do it every quarter.
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
We Blew Up the Call Center (And We Launched Atlanta)
The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But
