Company News
Why I Joined Redfin: Trevor Kemp
Trevor Kemp is a Redfin principal agent on Long Island, New York. He joined Redfin in June 2024 after more than a decade at East
Redfin Welcomes June Agent Hires
It’s my honor to introduce you to our June Newfins! I’m excited to welcome this group of talented lead agents and look forward to seeing
Homeowners Can Now Use Redfin Redesign For Their Home Photos!
It’s official—Redfin Redesign is now available for both homebuyers and sellers! As of today, any homeowner can now upload a photo of their home and
Why I Joined Redfin: Jonathan Chvala
Jonathan Chvala is a Redfin principal agent in Chicago. He joined Redfin in May 2024 after building and managing a successful team at Keller Williams.
Redfin Welcomes May Agent Hires
Summer is here, and so is a new group of incredible agents who are joining Redfin! Please join me in welcoming all of the talented
Hundreds of Redfin Agents Named to RealTrends Verified Top Agent Ranking
It’s a big day at Redfin as more than 600 of our agents were named among the country’s most successful real estate agents by RealTrends
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
