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Nice new features.

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Glenn,

This is an amazing new featureset. I logged in this morning and after playing around for an hour or two last night, I am astounded at how wonderful this shift is.

Please pass regards and appreciation to the team.

XOXO,
Selly

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Your changes are terrible. The pages for individual listings do not render properly at all in Firefox. I’ve tried them on 3 different computers, and all of them look the same. Really Nasty.

@Firefox User: what are you seeing in Firefox specifically? All of our developers (including me) use Firefox as our primary browser while making the site, so Firefox rendering is pretty important to us.

That being said, we always make mistakes, and it could be that there’s something happening on your machine we’ve overlooked. If you could forward any more detail about what you’re seeing to techsupport@redfin.com, we’d be very grateful. Information such as the exact web address in your browser or a screen shot would also help tremendously.

I love the new updates! My favorite is the neighborhood ‘outline’ feature.

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This is very good work! Love all aspect of it. Excellent web team!!

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Very, very cool new features, but I’ve spent way too much time trying to find out what the red hearts mean on some properties. It would be nice if there were a quick way to have tracked this down rather than having to find a blog to post to and then have to keep checking this blog again to see if there’s an answer…seems like too much work.

@Jaime: I agree we need to do a better job about making our icons understandable. We’re working on it. I have two answers:

1) Under the “Change View” menu, there’s a map legend that shows you what the various icons mean.

2) The heart means that the listing is one of your favorites. If you’d like to remove it as a favorite, click on the listing and then click “Remove from Favorites” in the sidepane on the right.

I love the listing price history feature. However, due to the way listings are sometimes manipulated, it’s not as useful as it could be. I wish you’d track listing prices even when a home has been off the market for some period of time. I’ve repeatedly seen a pattern where a house will be listed, then taken off the market for a while, then put back on the market (all without a sale). I believe that with your current system, the listing prices for the earlier listing periods would be lost. From a technical perspective that is probably correct, but from the viewpoint of a potential buyer, it’s not really what I want to know — I want to see what prices the house has been listed at ever since they started trying to sell it. I’m not sure if agents are delisting houses for the purpose of making them not look like they’ve been on the market as long as they have been, or if there’s something else going on (I’m sure that in at least some cases there is), but it certainly makes it harder for buyers to tell what’s going on.

Maybe you could do something like show the history from previous listing periods if there was less than three months between times it was listed. Or, if it was taken off the market without selling during the previous listing (though I’ve seen one or two cases where the house appears to have been sold for the listing price, then sold back to the previous owner for exactly the same price within a day or less — not sure what that’s about). It seems like you must have that data available (though I don’t know if your agreements with the MLSes allow you to show it in this way).

What I’d really love to see is a history of every time a property has been listed, with every price change, and the outcome of each of those listings. But I suppose that’s asking for too much…

Sean, great feedback! We agree that the better implementation of the feature is to track properties that relisted at a lower price; particularly since re-listing the property also re-sets days on market.

Look for some of the features you’ve described in your note later in the year, so far as MLS rules permit.

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It’s a good thing.

I use Firefox with my Mac at Redfin and that continues to work well. Safari compatibility must have been a lot of work, and it goes to show that Redfin is reaching out to all. While Safari/Mac users may be a minority, Redfin understands that among real estate buyers they are the smart ones who also appreciate the Redfin way.

Thanks for finally supporting Safari and we love the new features, keep them coming!

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great new features!

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Glenn, I would like to talk to you about flatraterealestate.com

Craig Davidenko

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Well I have not heard from anyone at Redfin…..CNBC
seem to pushing my business flatraterealestate.com- evrything that they mention about the housing market points to “Flat Rate” listings…..

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