Wow, busy day! Today I was at Real Estate BarCamp New York — a precursor to Inman Connect. What’s BarCamp? BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants. What’d we talk about?… Read More
We think Lisa Hurt is the first Redfin seller to promote her home for sale in Bothell with Twitter! While Lisa is new to Twitter it’s exciting to see sellers using different online mechanisms to promote their listings. I definitely think that Twitter, especially if you have a decent number of followers, can be a… Read More
It’s been a busy few months and an all hands on deck effort as we changed not just our service (Read Glenn’s blog post on the service changes) but updated the website to match. Every page was touched, all the content was re-written, and no pixel was left un-turned (except the blog layouts which will… Read More
Some thought the day would never come but once we spotted the cars it was only a matter of time. Yesterday Google Street View launched in DC, Baltimore and Seattle. Those areas are now available on Redfin giving us Google Street View coverage for every market we are in. Take a look at one of… Read More
In our last release we added a “Share on Facebook” link to our details pages that when hovered over brings up a menu from AddThis letting you bookmark the home to your favorite social bookmarking service. Before launching the feature we debated what the top service would be. Glenn, voted for Delicious, I voted for… Read More
While one wing of the Redfin office wrestles about changes to the home tours program the other wing of the office is up in arms over how we surface search options on the map page. When we re-designed our website in April one of the changes we made was hiding the search options. The reasoning… Read More
The old way: explain your real estate needs and desires to an agent, he searches for listings, wait, wait, wait until he shares the details with you. The Redfin way: search for real estate on your own terms, whether in your PJs or work duds, get immediate information. The old way: once you fell in… Read More
Thanks, again, for all your feedback on our last big release. Overall, it sounds like you appreciated most of the changes, but it turns out we got some things wrong. We wanted to let you know we heard you and have been working ferverishly on fixes. To make sure the changes we’re making are the… Read More
We want to thank everyone for sending us feedback today on the new site! We were on pins and needles watching our feedback folders, hitting refresh on Google Blog Search, Technorati and following the comments posted on our favorite blogs. Overall, feedback received was positive. But some of your feedback made us reconsider a decision… Read More
We finally made it! Redin now covers twice the ground we used to in the Seattle and Bay Areas, we’re on Virtual Earth and you can IM us using Meebo. Here are a few of us in the Seattle office last night launching the new Redfin site. Twice the ground It wasn’t until I started… Read More