Every time I Twitter, which is more and more often these days, I think about what evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller told the New York Times a few weeks ago about a different topic, the futility of consumerism. It seems like he should have been talking about Twitter: “Evolution is good at getting us to avoid… Read More
I’ve been spending the weekend at a 40,000-person oncology conference in Orlando and finally wandered into a Saturday-night session on using the body’s immune system to fight melanoma. It’s the first time I’ve ever been to a conference outside of tech, and it struck me as immediately different and in some ways better: It was… Read More
Yes, yes, Redfin’s map-driven search is loads of fun, but have you ever wondered why that is? In preparation for next week’s big Redfin demonstration at Google I/O, Redfin search-team leader Sasha Aickin posted an essay on what we learned from building our own map-based application. [youtube zWVIxBRUkfE] It has all the big things I wished we… Read More
Twitter’s Biz Stone blogged yesteray that Twitter wasn’t interested in banner ads. Undeterred, TechCrunch immediately reported that Twitter would still undoubtedly focus on ads, perhaps of another sort. It was a curious response to what may be a titanic shift in how advertising works. Twitter seems ready to depart from the business model of every… Read More
Redfin field agents take our customers on home tours, host open houses and attend inspections. As our mobile force on the ground, each sees on average 50 – 60 homes a week. Across all our markets, field agents toured a total of 5,795 homes in April. Exposure to that many properties gives them a great… Read More
In February (has three months already gone by?) we launched our partner agent program giving home buyers and sellers the opportunity to see and make offers on homes in areas where Redfin agents don’t serve. Home buyers use our site to search for homes and connect with an agent from another brokerage who shares our… Read More
Over the past few months, Twitterers and TechFlash readers have invented a war between big and small startups, and somehow Redfin has landed on the wrong side of it. I only noticed it last night. The great Josh Petersen of 43 Things compared Adam Doppelt’s fantastic essay on boot-strapping Urbanspoon to a talk Marcelo Calbucci… Read More
Last week we released the latest round of the Redfin By The Numbers reports. With these posts, we’re trying to give some insight into what’s going on in the market right now by looking at what our clients have been doing. This is the national roundup, for the local numbers, check out the reports for:… Read More
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:30 a.m., some of Redfin’s finest physical specimens have been stripping down to our under-shirts to compete in the 100-pushup challenge. We’ve been faithfully working through the 6-week program, which promises to build anyone into a mini-Schwarzenegger, for 14 weeks. We embraced the macho rhetoric of the 100-pushups website… Read More
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter synthesizing the past month’s data on real estate prices, and now we’re also posting the information to our blog so folks can comment in a public forum rather than only writing me back (though I don’t mind the email either). We link to all the data so you can… Read More