At Redfin, we’re always interested in technologies that let you see more about a property in your PJ’s. So we wondered, why aren’t more agents uploading videos to places like YouTube? It’s free, and even when the video itself is kind of cheesy, it’s cool. Check out the video for this Tukwila fixer-upper. And while… Read More
Earlier this week the Seattle Times printed a blurb about Redfin (us) and Red Fin (the Asian fusion restaurant) pondering how we could combine our services. With that question in mind, a few folks on the Redfin support team visited the Red Fin restaurant and combined ourselves with their sushi. Here’s a photo of us… Read More
Redfin has become Seattle’s most-trafficked brokerage site through $100 a week in Google ads and word-of-mouth. We love it because it’s inexpensive and honest but every day we run into people who say Redfin? What’s that? We’re buying some ad space on Zillow and a few other sites, and now we’ve worked up a few… Read More
An apocalyptic May 2006 Harper’s cover story, “The New Road to Serfdom,” predicts that the past year’s housing boom has resulted in crushing debt (no link, because Harper’s isn’t online but click here for a fantastic take-down of the outgoing editor, Lewis Lapham). It’s all supposed to be breathless, but it often seems instead like… Read More
Just the other day, Forbes published a list of the most expensive zip codes to live in, based on median property prices: –> 11962, Sagaponack, New York (Suffolk): $2,787,500 –> 92067, Rancho Santa Fe, California (San Diego): $2,445,000 –> 92662, Newport Beach, California (Orange County): $2,397,500 Only one area outside of California and New York,… Read More
Chatting with a journalist at one of the big three business publications the other day about executives who become obsessed with blogs to the exclusion of their day-jobs as titans of finance, we realized that there was a juicy story to be told of neglected colleagues, piled-up e-mail and ringing telephones. Now the journalist is… Read More
In its discussion of Redfin’s MapStats technology, the New York Times‘ real estate blog notes that the pace of technology innovation has become “ferocious.” Of course, we agree. But such innovations aren’t always glamorous. For example, one insightful reader this evening asked that we incorporate information about sewer work permits on our map, which is… Read More
Our CTO, Brian Marsh, shredded some logs to figure out the most popular neighborhoods searched for by name over the past four weeks on Redfin: 1. Ballard (once the “center of the world’s largest shingle industry”): 47,124 searches by name 2. Bellevue: 46,290 searches by name 3. Redmond: 36,867 searches by name It took less… Read More
Big Redfin news is headed your way! Redfin’s launching MapStats today, which lets you see neighborhood statistics like median price and dollars-per-square foot change in real-time as you move around the map. View Image To turn it on, check the Statistics box below the map. Then start playing around: move 500 yards towards Madison Park’s… Read More
Best Web posting on design this week is by the Great Dane Jakob Nielsen, who charted 232 people’s eye movements as they scanned a Web page, and discovered that they go across the top, then across again but lower, and then down the left side, describing an F on the page. Handy for Redfin as… Read More