Company News
Redfin hosts Seattle Startup Weekend 2013
54 hours. For many, that might be enough time for a relaxing trip to the beach or a weekend with friends, but for the 106

Redfin to Host Seattle Startup Weekend June 7-9
We are very excited to announce that we’ll be hosting Seattle Startup Weekend this Friday through Sunday at Redfin’s headquarters! The event will bring together more than 100 entrepreneurs from around the country, who will share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.

Move Over, Kimye. Here Comes the RedfInland Empire!
Today Redfin announced the expansion of its home-buying and selling service to California’s Inland Empire.

Welcome to Miami! (¡Bienvenido a Miami!)
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re on a bit of an expansion spree, with the addition of Charlotte and the Triangle in North Carolina, Delaware,
Price Your Home Like an Agent Would
Today Redfin launched the Home Value Tool, a new online feature that helps homeowners estimate the value of their home. The tool is the vastly

New Species of Shark Discovered in Puget Sound: Redfin Adopts it as Company Mascot
Today Redfin announced it has adopted a newly discovered species of shark – the Pacific Redfin Shark – as its new mascot. On March 28
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