Today we’re moving our HQ in Seattle and while we anticipated a temporary disruption for some of our systems the move has affected our email and office phone system more then we anticipated. We estimate having email and phone back up in 30 to 60 minutes and will keep you updated here. In the meantime… 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
This morning we did a massive update to our website increasing the amount of photos and data we store 340%. Unfortunately, our website was offline from about 6:40 AM PST until 9 AM PST and then intermittently until 2:20 PM PST because of the increase in the amount of data coupled with the load from… Read More
Since launching our iPhone app two months ago we’ve been glued to the App Store compulsively checking our app’s rating and reading the reviews, and for good reason, our iPhone app is 10% of site traffic on weekends. Overwhelmingly the feedback has been positive; folks love the app. However, there were some folks bummed out… Read More
We can’t believe it, after only being out six weeks, traffic from our iPhone App is 10% of our site traffic on the weekends. Do that many people really have iPhones? :) Digging into the numbers, for the first four weekends after we launched it, iPhone traffic was a little under 5% of our website… Read More
It’s not too late to head down to the Naked Truth at Olympic Sculpture Park here in Seattle! With the sun out we tore up the RSVP list and are opening the doors to everyone (bring a blanket!). We’ll be here until they boot us out at 10 but I’m sure there will be more… Read More
In February (has three months already gone by?) we launched our partner agent program giving home buyers and sellers the opportunity to see and make offers on homes in areas where Redfin agents don’t serve. Home buyers use our site to search for homes and connect with an agent from another brokerage who shares our… Read More
“Stronger than any referral I’ve ever received, from an ad or anything else” is what Redfin partner agent Nancy (who has over 20 years of experience!) excitedly called to tell our Seattle broker Kevin today about the tour requests she received so far. After a Wednesday launch we’re already off to a roaring start with… Read More
Glenn covered the big news this morning about our new agent profiles and expanded coverage with partner agents. What his blog post doesn’t include is a look at the other features we released. But why write about the site when we can show you? Check out this seven minute video where we walk through the… Read More
Wow, what a week last week in New York. From the Real Estate Bar Camp on Tuesday to two and half full days of Inman Connect + parties it was an exhausting trip. Now that I’ve recovered and survived three full days of meetings here at Redfin here’s my quick take on things: Transparency is… Read More