At BloodhoundBlog Unchained last Thursday, Greg Swann hosted Redfin for a debate on whether all the venture capital that has been poured into real estate is driving out the little guy. Greg maintained that small brokers could flourish without having to spend millions on a website, because what counts in real estate is the personal connection… Read More
Redfin launched its 2009 brown-bag lunch program last Friday, where employees and guests speak on how we can broaden our horizons beyond our little startup and develop our careers. I addressed the first topic, public speaking, mostly because in 2002 I had attended part of a road-show boot camp that Sequoia Capital put its executives… Read More
“Stronger than any referral I’ve ever received, from an ad or anything else” is what Redfin partner agent Nancy (who has over 20 years of experience!) excitedly called to tell our Seattle broker Kevin today about the tour requests she received so far. After a Wednesday launch we’re already off to a roaring start with… Read More
On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness would serve clients who had browsed their profile and requested their service, in outlying areas of our markets where less than 10% of our audience now looks for homes. TechFlash… Read More
Glenn covered the big news this morning about our new agent profiles and expanded coverage with partner agents. What his blog post doesn’t include is a look at the other features we released. But why write about the site when we can show you? Check out this seven minute video where we walk through the… Read More
Redfin released a sprawling, glorious update to our website last night that changes Redfin in two fundamental ways: We built data-driven agent profiles, showing every deal our own agents have done and every customer review, even on deals that failed. We opened up our business to partner agents and we published all their deals too,… Read More