Redfin received notice late last Friday that on Thursday, February 9, Zillow will no longer be sending us for-sale-by-owner listings and other manually posted listings that we can display on our site. Zillow primarily gets listings directly from individual brokers, not from the Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) that all brokers use to share listings with one… Read More
photo by Giovanni Arteaga on Flickr Rumor has it a few people in the United States aren’t going to be glued to a TV this Sunday afternoon for four quarters of football. So if you’re selling your home, should you cancel your party plans if an agent calls and wants to show your place? Redfin… Read More
The first month of every year for Redfin is like the first five minutes of a blind date: it doesn’t take long to figure out how the whole thing will go. We track every customer activity in a big database so it’s easy for us to see whether demand is strong right out of the… Read More
The great venture capitalist Ben Horowitz wrote last night about how the investors in his own startup once told him they wanted a real CEO. What struck me about the essay, which was mostly about how Andressen Horowitz helps founding entrepreneurs develop into great leaders, was Ben’s striking response to the insult: he acknowledged the… Read More