Company News
Redfin Agents Take Home Top State Awards
We’re excited to congratulate the Redfin agents from across the country who were named to the REAL Trends List of America’s Best Real Estate Agents
Why I Work at Redfin: Kelsey Tempel, Product Manager
My love story with Redfin began when I received a call from a Redfin recruiter on Feb. 14, 2012, regarding a computer science internship. It seems appropriate that my relationship with a company I have grown to love started on Valentine’s Day.
An extension to find CSS selectors
Soon after I started working at Redfin at the beginning of February, I was introduced to the browser automation tool Selenium Webdriver. Regretfully I
Hot or Not? Redfin “Hot Homes” Show Buyers When to Move Quickly
Today we launched Redfin Hot Homes, a new feature that identifies which homes for sale are likely to sell quickly, and highlights these homes throughout Redfin.com.
Redfin Named to CNBC Disruptor 50 List
Redfin made the CNBC Disruptor 50 List, which is a roundup of private companies who are considered disruptors in their respective industries.
Redfin Arrives in Rhode Island!
We have big news for homebuyers and sellers in the nation’s smallest state! Residents in the entire state of Rhode Island can now work with
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
