We just sent our monthly newsletter out to 164,625 folks. Read it all here or sign up to get it via email. Howdy Redfinnians! For the first time in years lots of pretty houses are coming onto the market, prices posted their seventh small monthly gain, but now demand has suddenly gone missing. What happened?… Read More
Spread the word! Redfin’s finally expanding to Portland, and offering search for most of Western Oregon, which will increase the number of listings on our site by another 8%. We also finally got ‘round to offering x-out, which keeps track of all the properties you don’t want to click on again… As John Cook recently… Read More
A few days back, we mentioned the slew of recent changes made by the Federal Housing Administration. We covered the changes made to the FHA’s condo approval process in some detail, but there are several other changes that will affect a broader swath of people hoping to finance their home purchase with an FHA loan…. Read More
The first inspirational speech I ever got in the corporate world concluded when my old friend Kirill Sheynkman removed his gold watch and put it on the desk between us. “This watch,” he said. “Costs more than your car.” I was moved and terrified by this strange comparison. “But I don’t even have a car,”… Read More
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been a veritable beehive of policy change over the past month. We’ll be discussing the impact of a lot of these changes in the next few days, but we’re starting things off with the changes to the condo approval process that went into effect on February 1st, 2010. Essentially,… Read More
Last night, we held one of our free home-buying classes, right here in our posh new digs. I’m in the uniquely weird position of working on the creation of a home-buying guide while simultaneously making my first foray into the home-buying experience, which feels a bit like trying to write a guidebook to Paris while… Read More
Last November we added trackbacks to the site so that any time a blogger links to Redfin we link back. This means that home-buyers browsing Redfin can quickly see what bloggers are saying about a home giving them even more info about the home, its neighborhood or history. Here’s an example of a listing in… Read More
So, I’ve written this blog entry about five times. I’m not certain I know what I’m doing. I mean, I’m an amateur when it comes to real estate. I’m like that kid in the back of the classroom who ate paste. And I don’t mean the kid in second grade. I mean the kid in… Read More
When it comes to rent, entrepreneurs are sometimes too cheap for our own good. Up ‘til Redfin’s move last week, I’d spent the last 15 years in Grade B & C office space and, as a point of pride, looked forward to spending another 30 more in the same. It was the only thing I… Read More
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an entrepreneur, my #1 weakness, my #1 advice, I found myself translating true stories about what has worked for me into aphorisms that felt made up. We have begun to think… Read More