Company News
Why I Work at Redfin: Jessie Culbert, Builder Services Marketing Manager
It’s not very often that you get a chance to be involved in building something from the ground up. Jessie Culbert talks about how Builder Services, a startup within Redfin, offered her that opportunity.
Redfin Agents Bring New Light to the Sunshine Factory!
Redfin is ready for some serious southern exposure! In addition to serving Phoenix, we are setting up shop in Arizona’s second largest city, Tucson. Residents of Tucson can now work with a local Redfin agent to buy and sell homes and use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market in Tucson including the Northwest, Northeast and Central neighborhoods.
3D Innovation Meets Home Tours: Introducing Redfin 3D Walkthrough
Redfin is the first national real estate brokerage to utilize cutting-edge 3D technology, powered by Matterport, that allows homebuyers to have a high-resolution, interactive view inside a Redfin agent-listed home for sale.
Thinking About Selling Your Home? You’ll Want to Take a Look at This
At Redfin, our goal is to make the entire home-buying and selling process easier, which is why we’re excited to announce the Redfin Home Dashboard, a comprehensive online resource for home sellers.
Welcome to the New Redfin Android Tablet App
Our award-winning Redfin app is now available for download on the Android tablet. This new app takes advantage of a bigger, more vibrant tablet screen.
Redfin Teams Up with Bainbridge Island’s Grow Community
Most of us do our small part to help Mother Earth. Recycle. Drive a low-emission car. But what if your whole house could reduce your carbon footprint? That’s the aim of Bainbridge Island’s Grow Community, the largest solar-powered community in Washington state. Developed by Asani and listed by Redfin, the community’s second phase of homes are now for sale.
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
