At real estate’s big Inman technology conference in Manhattan, Redfin squared off with Allan Dalton, Move.com’s President of Real Estate, in a keynote session entitled high-touch vs. high-tech, about the differences between online brokers and traditional real estate agents. Move.com runs Realtor.com for the National Association of Realtors, publishing listings nationwide. It has also threatened… Read More
We’ve kicked off our New Year in product development with an update to Redfin.com last night. We’ve updated two areas of the product as a result of direct feedback we’ve received from customers. We’ve heard clearly that more listing information, more photos and more help when making an offer are important and we’re working hard… Read More
The reviews are in! Redfin’s Seattle real estate experts are winning accolades across the blogosphere for their eyewitness reviews of listings from all over town. A blogger in Arizona who describes herself as living with her husband and her father (“we argue about everything and watch Star Trek with dinner”) reports “I go to this… Read More
Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg announced layoffs at his company yesterday: 60 people, or over 40% of the staff. It reminded me of Sequoia Capital’s only advice about a lay-off: cut once, cut deep. And now, as an angry mob forms in outrage at the idea that a new company could struggle for its life, every… Read More