A few months ago, in a post about foreclosures, we included a photo of a Burmese python that had been caught in the Florida Everglades. The photo fired our readers’ imaginations, with one commenting that she had “suspected my x had once again fallen into the hands of the law.” Well last week, The New… Read More
Forbes this week got its hands on Steve Jobs’s deposition about back-dated stock options and the blogosphere is now citing his testimony as evidence of Jobs’s being undone by his loyalty to his team. In an essay titled “Steve Jobs on the Value of Stock Options,” TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld frames Jobs’s account as a disquisition… Read More
Start spreading the news! The Redfin spaceship landed yesterday in Long Island and Westchester County in New York as well as California’s Central Valley, including Sacramento. In one day, we increased our reach by nearly 20% but fell short of conquering the greatest Babylon of them all Manhattan; the brokers there don’t share data with… Read More
**April 29, 2009 Ride Canceled Due to Rain** First there were the Redfin cycling jerseys. Then the chatty rides around Mercer Island on Wednesday mornings, ending in a race across the bridge and an occasional Chinese pastry (or not! I was always promised this, and never got one). Now Redfin is organizing a weekly ride… Read More
I was just about to go to bed when I saw Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch predicting that a 50% drop in venture capital investing last quarter signals the beginning of the end of the industry’s golden age. True to TechCrunch form, it was an eye-opener. And we share some of her concerns. A few weeks… Read More
Every few months, Redfin surveys the folks using our site to try to understand how real estate consumers move between online and offline worlds, so we can blend the two together better. The latest survey ran from March 13 – 20. 1,058 people filled it out, with about 68% saying they plan on buying a… Read More
What happened to the real estate market last month? Well, the Case-Shiller numbers for March will come out on May 26. And the National Association of Realtors will release data on last month’s home sales in a week or so. But we’re interested not just in what sold, but in what’s going to sell, based… Read More
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about boot-times — not the time it takes a computer to boot, but the time it takes me to boot every morning. My old friend Kirill Sheynkman used to complain that though Moore’s law predicts processor speeds will double every two years, computer boot times remain the same —… Read More
Redfin posted an essay on TechFlash late last night discussing the implications of what TechCrunch called “Danny Sullivan’s beautiful rant.” Sullivan argues that newspapers should just opt out of Google’s index if they don’t want their home pages to be replaced by Google News. But, as is usually the case with posts like this, we… Read More
If Redfin is going to offer the best service in our markets, our agents have to know more about real estate, which means we have to amass a gigantic real estate knowledge-base, combining dry academic research with an anarchist’s cookbook of right-now street-smarts. The latest knowledge-base entry, posted by email this Saturday, was Ron Lieber’s… Read More