Company News
Redfin Launches in Canada!
Torontonians can now sell homes at a 1 percent listing fee with full-service local Redfin agents
Hello, Canada! Redfin will launch in Toronto and Vancouver!
Buyers and sellers in Toronto and Vancouver will soon be able to work with Redfin agents
Diversity at Redfin in 2018
The good news this year is that women’s representation increased across the board, and we made strides in hiring more Black and Latinx employees.
Redfin Welcomes Aaron Noe as National Head of Renovations
Noe will oversee renovations for RedfinNow. RedfinNow buys homes directly from homeowners giving them a way to sell their home quickly with more certainty and less stress.
Redfin Concierge Now Available in Seattle!
Power is shifting away from sellers in Seattle. With homes taking longer to sell and buyers becoming pickier, Redfin Concierge gives sellers peace of mind knowing their home will have a great debut.
What I learned from 100 homeowners facing foreclosure in 2009
And, how my background in behavioral economics will inform my perspective as Redfin’s chief economist
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
