Redfin Comes to North Carolina
Hooray! Redfin just expanded to Charlotte and The Triangle in North Carolina. To get to know everyone, we’re hosting a party Wednesday, March 6 at The Architect in Raleigh and Thursday, March 7 at Byron’s South End in Charlotte. If you’d like to talk to a Redfinnian about where the North Carolina market’s headed, or… Read More
Hooray! Eighteen months after launching our website and mobile tools for Austin, Redfin has begun offering Austin service from our own Austin-based agents. Now Austinites can buy or sell a home via a Redfin agent paid based on customer satisfaction, and armed with the latest technology for scheduling tours, pricing homes, optimizing listing traffic and… Read More
Bust out the cheese-steaks—Redfin has arrived in Philly! Philly is Redfin’s 19th market overall and our first in more than a year. But it’s a big one: today, the number of listings on our site grew by 8.5%. We hired an 18-year real estate veteran, Linda Wolbers, to build and manage a local team of… Read More
Redfin opened for business in Denver today, the sixth market we’ve launched in the past twelve months, and our 16th overall. We hired the perfect person to run the business, a dog-rescuing, snowshoeing outdoors fanatic: Michelle Ackerman. She’s someone who totally personifies our values, of putting the customer first, and always telling the complete truth… Read More
More big news! A few days after launching clustering and an interactive guide to key escrow documents, Redfin expanded our search site to Las Vegas and Austin this morning, increasing the number of markets we cover from 12 to 14, and increasing the number of homes for sale on Redfin’s site by 5.1%. Giving regular… Read More
Big news Redfinnians! Today we launched a big upgrade to our service for home-sellers, began touring short sales, and opened Phoenix. It’s a lot to cover, so let’s dive right in! The Listing Service Now Includes an In-Home Consultation, More Online Tools Lets talk about the listing service first since that affects every market. The… Read More
Spread the word! Redfin’s finally expanding to Portland, and offering search for most of Western Oregon, which will increase the number of listings on our site by another 8%. We also finally got ‘round to offering x-out, which keeps track of all the properties you don’t want to click on again… As John Cook recently… Read More
The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But better than the Atlanta website is the team behind it, starting with the guy we hired to run our Atlanta business, James Marks. From the moment James explained to us that… Read More
A friend descending into Southern California once looked down on the vast grid of tinkling lights and said it was as terrifying to see as the mind of God. I used to dislike the way LA made me feel insignificant, but now it’s almost a relief. If Gertrude Stein once complained that the problem with… Read More