There are very few people with Matt Bell’s zeal for negotiating. He is 6’5”, with a large, slow smile that seems to bespeak an unused capacity for terrific violence, and he is faultlessly congenial. The best way to summarize our friendship is to say that he taught me to shotgun a beer for the first… Read More
The old way: explain your real estate needs and desires to an agent, he searches for listings, wait, wait, wait until he shares the details with you. The Redfin way: search for real estate on your own terms, whether in your PJs or work duds, get immediate information. The old way: once you fell in… Read More
All of us in software have been in a little bit of a funk over the new new thing in Silicon Valley, alternative energy. It’s the preeminent challenge of our time, and it’s largely in the realms of material science, not computer science. Watching a new vanguard go by is a novel experience for many… Read More
Moving to a new neighborhood and want to know how it compares to your current digs? Now you can! Today Redfin added community and school information links on every listing detail page, you even can do head-to-head comparisons. Currently available for Washington and California listings, we’ll add new markets as we expand so you’ll be… Read More
Marie, our Seattle Sweet Digs editor sent us a link to a wacky house in Madre de Deus (Mother of God), Brazil that we couldn’t help but share with you. The house is described in articles as 1 meter wide by 10 meters tall. That’s a little misleading because the building tapers in toward the… Read More
With tax season upon us, folks have been asking and analyzing and holding forth about whether our refunds are taxable as income. We recently got an answer from the IRS that commission refunds are not taxable. This means that when you buy a $1 million dollar house from Redfin and get a $19,500 commission refund… Read More
Thanks to McKinsey-trained Kevin Boer, one of several brokers who reviewed Redfin’s NWMLS data, Redfin has discovered that we screwed up the accounting for one transaction in our analysis of Redfin’s negotiating advantage. Except for this transaction, Kevin seems to have corroborated our analysis. We originally reported that our King County buyers got a final… Read More