The February 7 SocketSite meet-up on what’s going on in San Francisco real estate this year filled up its 100 spots in 24 hours, so now we’ve opened up registration to a few more people. If you’re in, add yourself to the list (soon)! Oliver Muoto, Silicon Valley’s most-eligible bachelor in 1999, will be there…. Read More
SocketSite, the obsessive-compulsive San Francisco real estate econometrics blog, is hosting a February 7 meet-up so legendary Editor-in-Chief Adam Koval can take head-on the fundamental question about San Francisco real estate: what’s going on out there? With prices? With new developments? With renovations? Redfin is on the hook for the drinks; registration is already filling… Read More
Steve Jobs is the Internet generation’s Robert Kennedy. Close your eyes, and the Apple CEO even sounds like a Kennedy: follow your passion, the charismatic icon tells our youth; change the world. Except Jobs is selling gadgets, not civil rights. No one seems to have noticed. Now, oil companies gush over the environment. Insurance ads… Read More
Thanks, again, for all your feedback on our last big release. Overall, it sounds like you appreciated most of the changes, but it turns out we got some things wrong. We wanted to let you know we heard you and have been working ferverishly on fixes. To make sure the changes we’re making are the… Read More
There have been a couple articles circling lately about the value of words in real estate listings. Quick, which of the following words will help sell your home? motivated seller good value clean quiet new paint If you guessed all of the above, keep reading. Bottom line: words matter and none of these will help… Read More
We want to thank everyone for sending us feedback today on the new site! We were on pins and needles watching our feedback folders, hitting refresh on Google Blog Search, Technorati and following the comments posted on our favorite blogs. Overall, feedback received was positive. But some of your feedback made us reconsider a decision… Read More
We finally made it! Redin now covers twice the ground we used to in the Seattle and Bay Areas, we’re on Virtual Earth and you can IM us using Meebo. Here are a few of us in the Seattle office last night launching the new Redfin site. Twice the ground It wasn’t until I started… Read More
There’s a pretty big technology change on Redfin.com today – the integration of Microsoft Virtual Earth as our underlying map platform. Redfin pioneered the use of satellite maps to display information about for sale homes. We built an in-house mapping solution using imagery acquired from various sources (mostly the USGS.) Since then a few other… Read More
My junior high school French teacher, who always dressed a little better than the other faculty, once explained that when you lose an argument in French, you generally storm out of your lover’s flat and down the stairs in a rage. It is only on the second landing that, coming to a full stop, you… Read More
Every time I think of this, I smile: on Monday, Rain City Guide published an interview with Redfin about blogging. In a flight of tooty-fruitiness, we described our “child-like joy in finding colorful pictures on Flickr to post.” Seattle Realtor Marlow Harris, Redfin’s natural antagonist, left a sinister warning that this may be illegal. The… Read More