Tour of Duty
Starting today, you’ll be able to request an in-person home tour with a Redfin agent right from your iPhone or iPad. Now, when you see a home that you think will go fast, you can request a free, no-obligation tour with a Redfin agent as easily as ordering a pizza. Seven days a week, virtually… Read More
Pictures and Prices of Sold Homes Come to Redfin on the iPhone and iPad
Big news! A new version of Redfin’s top-rated iPhone App and iPad App just became available, which now include pictures, prices and all sorts of details on homes that sold a few moments ago, or 15 years ago. We’ve had this stuff on our website for years, but not in our mobile applications. Now on iPad… Read More
If you’re a serious home buyer, you’ve been following the news on the housing market about bidding wars, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sales and the depressed and depressing inventory situation. When things are moving this fast, the home you want to buy probably hasn’t been sitting on the market for weeks or months. It’s the gem that just hit… Read More
Redfin’s mobile real estate apps team has been firing on all cylinders, burning the proverbial midnight oil, working non-proverbial nights and weekends. The upshot is that we’ve released an upgrade today to our iPad App and our iPhone App that will give you faster access to even more beautiful home detail pages. It comes down… Read More
Whether you’re the curl-up-on-the-couch-with-Redfin-for-iPad type or you prefer to use your iPhone to search homes on-the-go (please don’t Redfin while driving), we hope you’ll love these new features we just added to our top-rated iOS apps: Local Agents are Just a Tap Away: For the first time, you have direct access to local, experienced Redfin… Read More
Less than a month after our last big iPhone release, we’ve got another one today! And this release isn’t just a few bug fixes; we’ve added a bunch more features. Go get it now! It’s got all this great stuff: X-out homes: Just like you can on the website, you can x-out homes you don’t… Read More
Big news! If a little red number just popped up beside your iPhone’s App Store icon, it’s because Redfin just upgraded its top-rated iPhone App! The new app is like chocolate ice cream — deeper and richer! — especially for the real-estate aficionados who log-in as Redfin customers. The local Multiple Listing Services we rely… Read More
Ahoy Redfinnians! We just got word from Apple that an update to our iPhone App will hit the store in the next hour or so. The big new feature is the ability to run saved searches from Redfin.com on your iPhone: You can also save searches run on your iPhone, for later use from either… Read More
Our software engineers have been hard at work on an upgraded version of our iPhone App, which is now available for download from the App Store! Here’s what you can expect: Enhancements: Drag-and-Search: You asked and we listened! Dragging the map to a new location re-queries Redfin for the homes in that area. High-Res Retina… Read More
Every month or so, as part of a series of talks called Engineer-2-Engineer (E2E), one of the gods of software engineering descends into the San Francisco offices of Redfin or Digg to give a technical talk on a practical subject. We’ve had architects from Twitter, Facebook and Pandora talk about Scala, mobile and Hadoop. Now… Read More