Just before Thanksgiving, ace Redfin product manager & superblogger Matt Goyer asked for your advice on how we could make it easier for our search site visitors to add filters on stuff like price, bedrooms and bathrooms to their queries. We offered a $250 prize for the best suggestion. One intrepid designer suggested displaying the… Read More
While one wing of the Redfin office wrestles about changes to the home tours program the other wing of the office is up in arms over how we surface search options on the map page. When we re-designed our website in April one of the changes we made was hiding the search options. The reasoning… Read More
As an agent with a traditional brokerage I was continually surprised at how much of my job was selling myself instead of selling real estate. Suddenly everyone became a potential and desperately needed paycheck (a great way to alienate friends by the way). Since clients come to Redfin, we don’t have to beg for business… Read More
Changes at Redfin have made all sorts of headlines this year, but the only change our customers really want from us is more home tours. Historically, the first four-hour home tour has been free, and the rest cost $250 up front. One isn’t enough. We’ve never had a focus group where customers didn’t bay for… Read More
Michael Arrington just posted onTechCrunch a Redfin essay arguing that venture capitalists put too much stock in an entrepreneur’s experience. Brimming with emotion, we saw that within seconds of publication, someone had already left a comment! What a thrill! We breathlessly opened the page to see what our first reader had to say: “Stop with… Read More
Draper Fisher Jurvetson hosted a CEO Conference Monday in Half Moon Bay. Just about all the CEOs in the DFJ portfolio were there, mostly to talk among ourselves about how best to stave off the usual fate, which is to lose a lot of money and then get fired. And yet we all went into… Read More
We are voices without faces. We are emoticons. We are Redfin Direct Agents. On Tuesday, November 13th, all of that changes. Redfin is opening our Seattle headquarters to current clients, past clients, and those on the fence. You will be treated to the finest pizza and beer that $300 can buy and demo unreleased website… Read More
Redfin has been futzing around with videos for years. We all thought a video was the best way to explain how to buy a house online, but nobody wanted to be in one. We experimented with Angela interviewing me at double-speed so that our voices sounded funny; we recorded a screen-capture of a new release… Read More