A couple of weeks ago, Redfin engineers got together for a hackathon to prototype features we’d like to see on the site. One team, featuring Jane Nemenman, Jamie DeMichele, Dane Brandon and Llewellyn Botelho, built a Redfin.com widget for each listing that showed the listing agent’s track record: how many listings he had on the… Read More
The Ravens just beat the Browns 16 – 0, but those of you without a Tivo may have noticed something else about the Monday Night Football telecast: a new Apple iPhone ad featuring the Redfin iPhone app. On seeing it, Scott Nagel, Vice President, Real Estate Operations, hardly one given to over-the-top displays of emotion,… Read More
Many thanks to Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld for publishing an essay this morning on what I’ve learned as a CEO during the downturn. Did anyone notice that the picture of Arnold in “Predator” is strikingly similar to the picture of me? The premise of the post isn’t that Redfin has found our way out… Read More
Redfin was on Good Morning America today, as promised. The interview was, as always, a blast, and being in a studio was as strange as ever. For some reason, I kept thinking of the children’s book author I had met in a green room on a previous trip. He had written a beautiful little book,… Read More
For the first time in many, many years, I’m riding in black leather over the East River toward Manhattan. Lamont, the 67-year-old man driving the Towncar, has already explained why he lives in New York: “I love the night life.” He said that he hopes to die at 94, “killed by somebody’s husband.” He told… Read More
Being on TV is a junkie kind of rush. Even if you’re as stuck up as I am about it, you fall into hoping TV’s magic will transform you during the broadcast into something larger than life. But then you get airbrushed with make-up (new for HD, it feels soft and good), the mic-man publicly… Read More
Redfin is appearing on Fox & Friends this Sunday. The “hit-time” is 7:21 a.m. At the moment, I’m in the green room. There is nasty danish here. Redfin is set to air just before a segment on “the world’s ugliest dog.” One of the make-up people in the green room just saw the teaser and… Read More
Redfin just showed up in a big USA Today feature which reports that “a growing number of home buyers swear by Redfin, an online start-up in Seattle that has rocked the real estate market.” All day, our phone has been ringing off the hook. And this time ’round, none of the calls have been nasty!… Read More
On Monday, we looked at what makes a property hot in Boston, so we’re closing the week with a look at a market on the other coast: Los Angeles. The big question: will we see the same trends coast to coast? We found there really are (hot) pockets of sunshine in the Los Angeles housing… Read More
Out of nowhere last week, an NPR producer sent us a note asking about Redfin’s March Madness plans. At first I thought she was talking about last week’s open houses release. Then I was about to say we aren’t doing anything special, but double-checked first with Redfin power forwards Klaus Gosma and Loren Ellingson, who… Read More