With a Gap This Big, It’s Sort of Hard Not to Say Something About It

By Glenn Kelman Real Estate Technology Redfin News | 19 Comments

First, the facts. Windermere and Redfin just published a study showing that across 11 major U.S. cities, local broker sites such as Windermere.com, Redfin.com, and LongandFoster.com have about 20+% more agent-listed properties than two national portals, Zillow and Trulia. The study found that broker sites display new listings 7 to 9 days faster, and that… Read More

DoJ: Competition and Innovation are Good, Even in Real Estate

By Redfin Blogger Real Estate Market Real Estate News & Analysis Real Estate Technology | 2 Comments

Yesterday, the Department of Justice published a website that focuses on the importance to consumers of competition in real estate. There’s a good summary on the InmanNews blog. They found that that commissions have risen along with home prices, which is no surprise to anyone who’s been in the market. But the data are interesting,… Read More

Piping Real Estate Data

By Glenn Kelman CEO Glenn Kelman Real Estate Technology | 8 Comments

For a long time at Redfin, we have been casting about for an easy way to incorporate for-sale-by-owner listings from Web sites such as craigslist, or to supplement a real estate search with blog posts about the neighborhood being searched. The problem has always been that craigslist, blogs and other Web sites aren’t structured databases… Read More

Redfin Moves the Earth

By Bryan Selner Most Popular Real Estate Technology Redfin News | 16 Comments

There’s a pretty big technology change on Redfin.com today – the integration of Microsoft Virtual Earth as our underlying map platform. Redfin pioneered the use of satellite maps to display information about for sale homes. We built an in-house mapping solution using imagery acquired from various sources (mostly the USGS.) Since then a few other… Read More