Company News

Let’s Honky-Tonk in Tennessee! Redfin Home-Buying and Selling Services Arrive in Nashville and Memphis
People in Nashville and Memphis can now work with local Redfin agents and can use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market.

Redfin Arrives in Southwest Florida!
Redfin brings its real estate brokerage to Southwest Florida, including Fort Myers and Naples.

Looking Back Over Another Crazy Year With Thanks
In 2014 Redfin expanded it’s service, launched new technology to improve home buying and selling, and saved our clients millions of dollars in fees. Here, we take a look back at another crazy year.

Redfin Raises $70.9 Million from Major Institutional Investors
Redfin today announced an investment of $70.9 million, led by large institutional investors including Wellington Management Company, LLP.

Redfin Arrives in New Jersey!
Redfin has arrived in the Garden State, serving homebuyers and sellers from Cape May to Morristown and along the shoreline to South New Jersey. People can now work with local Redfin agents to buy and sell homes in New Jersey and can use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search homes on the market.

Pikes Peak or Bust! Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Colorado Springs!
We’ve got big news for people in Colorado Springs! Once you’ve finished summiting Pikes Peak or hiking through Garden of the Gods, you can now work with local Redfin agents to buy and sell homes, too! You can also use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market in the Colorado Springs metro area and El Paso County as well as Monument, Palmer Lake, Woodmoor, Black Forest, Falcon, Fountain, Security-Widefield and Woodland Park.
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