Redfin sends out a monthly newsletter that digests all the real estate news from 20 – 30 sources into one portrait of what’s going on in real estate. All the folks who register on our site have the option to get the newsletter, and of course anyone can unsubscribe. By popular demand, we’re now publishing… Read More
Big news real estate aficionados! Case Shiller, the Standard & Poor’s index that economists treat as the most reliable measure of home prices, reports this morning that May 2009 home prices increased .45% over April; this is the first such increase since July 2006. Once we adjust for seasonality – home prices tend to increase… Read More
For years, it has been fashionable for business-people to approach any problem — choking baby, lonely Friday, cold soup, global warming — by asking Jeff Jarvis’s question: “What would Google do?” But the most admired technology company in the world isn’t Google. It’s Apple. And when it comes to the most admired technology executive, Steve… Read More
Given the recent coverage of a 15-year old at Morgan Stanley who wrote a report about why teens aren’t using Twitter and the numerous reactions, we thought that we’d jump on the bandwagon and get the perspective of Redfin’s youngest employee, Edward Chang, on the matter. A couple of weeks before starting my marketing internship… Read More
In what became the most-discussed post of the day, a mystery author argued yesterday on TechCrunch for regulating Google’s algorithm for ranking search results and ads. The author compares the Internet to a vast, wonderful country — if the Internet were like Italy or Hawaii, and could only be visited two weeks a year, how… Read More
Did anyone wonder why TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington participated in last week’s Naked Truth? I have, many times. It’s not because we’re close personal friends. We don’t hang out, and we disagree about almost everything, starting with whether you can build a great technology company in Seattle. I’ve complained that his official sanctioning of music theft… Read More
The Naked Truth is over. Every terrace of the Olympic Sculpture Park was packed. All the panelists were mobbed. And we announced our big news: that Redfin was profitable last month, all while maintaining our 97% customer satisfaction. The business has been growing by leaps and bounds, in part because the real estate market has… Read More
It’s not too late to head down to the Naked Truth at Olympic Sculpture Park here in Seattle! With the sun out we tore up the RSVP list and are opening the doors to everyone (bring a blanket!). We’ll be here until they boot us out at 10 but I’m sure there will be more… Read More
Tonight’s big Naked Truth event at the Olympic Sculpture Park — where enterpreneurs, investors and journalists will discuss how different Internet consumer models work — has all the makings of a blow-out. Even before Fred Wilson or John Cook blogged about it, we’d had 400 people register, then 500 when we raised the limit by 100…. Read More
Big news! Redfin launched a glorious new version of our website this morning. Some of the changes are on the back-end, to help us handle more demand for our partner program, which had been held together behind the scenes by string and bubble-gum until today — now all our partner agents can use a web… Read More