We said goodbye to ’09 by sending our monthly newsletter to 143,981 folks, a 7% increase from last month. If you’d like to receive it via email, just sign up. See you in 2010, Lisa Happy Holidays Redfinnians! Here’s the last monthly Redfin newsletter of 2009, with all the data on what happened in the… Read More
Happy holidays Redfinnians! The Case-Shiller data for October came out this morning; looking at the seasonally adjusted data as we always do, we see the fifth consecutive monthly increase nationwide, but weakness in Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, New York. After four months of gains, New York and Boston declined for the second straight month in a… Read More
The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But better than the Atlanta website is the team behind it, starting with the guy we hired to run our Atlanta business, James Marks. From the moment James explained to us that… Read More
Michael Arrington published another hum-dinger of an essay this morning, this one on the future of blogging and journalism in a world of rampant theft: one writer takes another writer’s story, hardly bothering to rewrite it, and posts it somewhere else, with the Internet portal and search engines richly rewarding the copycat rather than the… Read More
With Google as our mapping partner, we’re able to give you overhead views and street views for all the homes for sale on our site (and for sold homes too). Today, Google announced that it’s also making a new type of imagery available called perspective imagery, starting with San Jose and San Diego. Perspective imagery… Read More
On the last Tuesday of every month, I get up at 5:45 a.m., pour myself a bowl of cereal, and begin hitting the refresh button on my browser, waiting for the Case-Shiller data to come out on the housing market. Once the data go live, we crunch the numbers, make some charts and publish a… Read More