Here I am, back in Washington DC, past midnight, in a hotel room with my favorite rubber giraffe and a snoring baby. I just got into bed but can’t sleep because Congress looks like it might extend the first-time home-buyer tax credit. The new Chris Dodd-sponsored deal has bipartisan support and a deal is at… Read More
We sent our monthly market update out to 126,104 folks this afternoon, a 6% increase from last month. If you’d like to get the newsletter by email, just sign up. Regards, Glenn Howdy Redfinnians! The data’s in for October, so it’s time for our high-speed, comprehensive summary of real estate trends. And the news is… Read More
The Case-Shiller numbers just came out for August, with sizable increases in California, DC, Chicago and Boston. The only market that was down was Seattle. We’ll send out a full report on market conditions later today. Read More
Since 11pm on Wednesday night, we’ve had some longer than normal delays in getting listings updated on our Web site and iPhone app. The reason is that we switched our underlying MLS feeds in Southern California to include one from CARETS. As we’ve been updating our database with the new feed, we’ve experienced delays of… Read More
We can’t believe it, after only being out six weeks, traffic from our iPhone App is 10% of our site traffic on the weekends. Do that many people really have iPhones? :) Digging into the numbers, for the first four weekends after we launched it, iPhone traffic was a little under 5% of our website… Read More
Most technology companies shamelessly value raw brain-power at the expense of social grace, common courtesy or any sense of style. As someone who wore head-gear for his entire adolescence, I’ve embraced this approach. Starting out as an entrepreneur, I once tried to hire an engineer who was so engrossed in the brain-teasers we had given… Read More
A few comments about Dave McClure’s Sunday post encouraging entrepreneurs under 30 to sell at the earliest opportunity, from someone who was a founder under 30. I won’t go into the full rant, since I already wrote that last year, but can’t help but comment on a few of Dave’s claims. (Dave already knows I… Read More