Company News

What Happens to American Cities With High Immigrant Populations
This country’s most intense debate in fifty years is happening today about immigration and our economy.

Redfin Launches Mortgage Business
Redfin Mortgage is the next-generation mortgage lender where the real estate agent, lender and title company are linked on the same system.

Glenn Kelman Receives CEO of the Year Award from Seattle Business Magazine
Last night, Redfin chief executive officer Glenn Kelman was named CEO of the Year at Seattle Business magazine’s Executive Excellence Awards gala.

2016: A Redfin Engineering Year in Review
As we step into the new year, we’re celebrating our major improvements to architecture and process in 2016!

Nela Richardson Offers Advice to College Graduates at UMD Ceremony
On Wednesday, December 21st Redfin Chief Economist Nela Richardson returned to her alma mater at the University of Maryland to give the following address to

My Redfin Internship: Eve Yuan
Eve describes her experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
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