After a few anxious, quiet weeks following our May 31 Bay Area launch, Redfin Direct’s California business has really started taking off, with over thirty offers submitted through Redfin Direct, and our first two deals already scheduled to close. We’ve also got a bunch of California listings. One of our first Bay Area customers, Colleen… Read More
Inman’s big Connect conference kicked off today in San Francisco. It isn’t raining here, but the city was pretty all the same: For starters, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington threw Molotov cocktails for an opening keynote at the new geek side of the conference, Inman’s Connect Tech, bringing in a dump-truck of ideas about everything that is… Read More
Redfin’s day in Congress was like a lot of days at Redfin: filled with swashbuckling controversy and juicy intrigue, unavoidably goofy and improvisational, tinged with a Quixotic sense of futility. Mostly it felt like a schoolday field-trip without a chaperone. Going to Congress was fun. The whole place seemed set to a music we couldn’t… Read More
Redfin is going to Washington tomorrow, to testify before the Congressional Subcommittee on Housing and Community about how MLS rules and minimum-service laws gum up Internet businesses. Michael Oxley, who came up with the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley bill that made executives accountable for their financial statements, is leading the charge against the realtors. So the guy… Read More
Redfin was on the radio over the weekend, in an hour-long nationally syndicated program called “Real Estate Today.” I’d prepared a few jokes but then got too nervous to try them out, so we mostly talked about how the Redfin Direct service works. It was fun. I got all dressed up only to be met… Read More