Home is where people feel free to let their freak flags fly, so when a real estate agent takes a client on a home tour, what they’re actually touring is a part of the homeowner’s strange side. The things our agents encounter on an almost-daily basis include nudity, drugs, sex, abstract wallpaper, taxidermic oddities and… Read More
Facebook Could Be Worth $100 Billion, But Not For Display Advertising
Everyone in finance is talking about Facebook: the amount of stock that it sold and the price of that stock. Everyone in technology is talking about Facebook too: the number of users it has, the time each user spends on its site, the power of Facebook’s development platform. The first group tends to think Facebook… Read More
Since When Did We Become a Lobby?
When one of my best friends was just getting started in his career, he wrote a paper arguing that Nevada has the most business-friendly laws in the U.S. He’d just moved there to take a position as head of marketing for SuperPawn, the world’s second-largest chain of pawnshops. Now he runs business development for one… Read More
Howdy Redfinnians! Strap in for Redfin’s monthly round-up of U.S. real estate news! This month is action-packed, so we’re going Moby-Dick on you guys, with an epic market survey, crammed full of gossip, poodles, and inside baseball. Prices Up, Inventory Down, Sales Volume OK, Rates at Record Lows Let’s start with the numbers since the… Read More
We’ve been talking a big game about bidding wars this season, telling you that they’re rampant in places like the Bay Area, Seattle and DC, and sharing the tricks of the trade so you know what it takes to win them. But which homes are actually inciting these bidding wars and what’s it like to… Read More
Life on a Short Street
On the empty sidewalk opposite my house, I was toodling along on my bike recently — and yes, I was also talking on a cell phone with my brother — when I heard a driver yell, “HEY BUDDY, WHY DON’T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU’RE GOING?” Before even looking up, I responded: “WHY DON’T YOU GO… Read More