Home Buying on April 1 Just Became Unbelievably Easy
Redfin is testing a new website feature Read More
Listing update delays in Southern California
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
Our Maps Are Googley Now
Redfin just released a new version of the site. In addition to improving our short sale detection in Orange County and parts of LA and making our neighborhood pages a little more discoverable from the map page, we switched to using Google Maps exclusively instead of a mix of Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps…. Read More
Glenn Kelman Gets It Wrong On Creative Rights
Glenn Kelman recently observed that Silicon Valley pundits have gone off the deep end arguing that intellectual property should be free Free FREE! Glenn’s correct- we all gotta eat, and if we can’t get paid for our work, most of us won’t do it. That applies to musicians, visual artists, computer programmers, mechanical engineers, and… Read More
Dear College Students: Intern at a Startup
Hi, I’m the Redfin intern that apparently asked our CEO’s wife out. I wanted to share my experience here at Redfin in hopes of helping fellow college students find out what they want to do with their lives. I’m a senior this year at the University of Washington studying Computer Engineering. This summer marks my… Read More