Last week, seven computer science students from the University of Washington interviewed at Redfin. Remembering my own college interviews, when borrowing my brother’s prescription glasses led me to bypass an interviewer’s outstretched handshake for his navel, I dressed up for the occasion. Most of the candidates wore jeans. We catered a creamy Indian buffet for… Read More
Yesterday’s The Wall Street Journal article – “Do Real-Estate Agents Have a Secret Agenda?” – reported on the well-known, but often undisclosed, practice of sellers offering buyers’ agents additional incentives to close a deal. Sometimes when properties, typically new developments, are not selling as fast as the builder had anticipated they offer additional incentives. Similar… Read More
A few months ago we launched a feature called Ask an Agent and Ask About a Listing. Answers from our experienced real estate team are just a click away. Since launching the program we have answered hundreds of questions ranging in complexity from “When is the open house” to questions as vague as “Can you… Read More
The Redfin engineers have been hard at work this past month and I’m sure we all took advantage of this weekend’s rain to spend a few days indoors catching up on some much-needed sleep. Now what were we so busy working on? Helping you find bargains With the real estate market slowing down and the… Read More
Free home tours are finally here! Customers screamed for it, the marketing department lobbied for it, yet we didn’t do it because we thought it was too reminiscent of irrational dot com behavior like Kozmo-we all know how well that worked out. Customer feedback from a recent focus group prompted us develop the new Redfin… Read More
We found a flick about us on YouTube in which a guy by the name of Joel manages to bring together water closets and real estate. At first we thought this was a secret test by our beloved Marketing department trying out our first TV spot. But then it dawned on us that Eric Heller… Read More
Redfin and other real estate-related topics are being discussed on Seattle NPR station KUOW (94.9) today, twice. Once right now on “The Conversation,” from 1 – 2 p.m. (sorry for the late notice) and again tonight at 8 p.m. (“The Works”). The early program is a call-in show with Lennox Scott of John L. Scott,… Read More
Redfin appeared this weekend in Damon Darlin’s New York Times article about the conflict between online home-buyers and traditional realtors. For the past two days, the article has sat atop the charts as the most e-mailed, ahead even of news that Australia’s crocodile-wrestler died of a stingray shot to the chest. And now the fur… Read More
Our recruiter, Aimee Cook, just stopped by to complain about our recent blog posting, in which we described her as “a competitive bodybuilder.” I was just about to apologize for the invasion of her privacy when she said, “I’m not just a competitive bodybuilder. I’m a TOP 2% BODYBUILDER.” She seemed surprised by the inquiring… Read More
Redfin has been hiring like crazy. Actually, we’ve just been interviewing like crazy. Actually, we’ve been going crazy trying to hire people. Want a job at Redfin? There are a few things we’d like you to know first: –> We’ve hired a competitive bodybuilder as our recruiter. Do not mess with her. –> We’ve gone… Read More