Redfin showed up in some unexpected places over the past week. The most e-mailed article in The New York Times today is a farewell posting from Damon Darlin, author of the weekly column “Your Money.” Damon originally profiled Redfin in The New York Times. In his latest article, he acknowledges that his wife has scolded… Read More
Redfin and the traditional real estate industry duked it out on 60 Minutes last night. The segment aired second, after Mitt Romney took a stand against polygamy, but was the most popular video until losing out to a wayward penguin who swam 3,000 miles to Peru (Sasha Aickin just sent an e-mail around saying “we… Read More
As you may have heard by now, Redfin will be on 60 Minutes this weekend. In an online teaser, Lesley Stahl has compared the Internet to a shark in “Jaws,” set to devour the real estate industry. The National Association of Realtors distributed to its 1.4 million members a memo about the piece with a… Read More
Redfin has been showing up all over the place lately. Some Redfin customers were on a Seattle TV news magazine the other night, looking oddly proud but also a little self-conscious about uprooting a bedroom vanity with their bare hands, while Redfin super-agent Kelly Engel and her one-eyed chihuahua closed deals left and right. A… 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
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
We’ve kicked off our New Year in product development with an update to Redfin.com last night. We’ve updated two areas of the product as a result of direct feedback we’ve received from customers. We’ve heard clearly that more listing information, more photos and more help when making an offer are important and we’re working hard… Read More
Did you know that on Redfin you can sign up to receive e-mails about what is happening with listings in the neighborhood you are house hunting in? What I find this feature most useful for is tracking price reductions. But you can also use it to find out when new listings come on the market… Read More
I’ve read a lot of articles this week about people giving back: from funding technology to find a cure for ALS, educating people about AIDS/HIV with today’s World AIDS Day , how to join the ranks of WarrBill (my “clever” Brangelina mash-up for Buffett and Gates). There even was a story in The Wall Street… Read More