Pickled Herring, Bears, and Home Selling Guides
Every time Redfin releases a new product, I wonder, “What would this thing look like if Redfin existed in the Soviet Union?” It’s an unusual thought experiment, but my parents are Russian, and I think it’s funny to imagine the Soviet-Bizarro-World version of my company. Soviet Redfin would be responsible for several great engineering triumphs… Read More
Redfin Publishes Thousands of Real-Time Insights on What It Takes to Win A Bidding War
Redfin just released Offer Insights, which are real-time statistics and notes from Redfin agents about thousands of offers submitted on behalf of our clients. For every neighborhood we serve, our goal is to give you an intimate view of how every deal went down. Read More
Redfin Listing Agents Sell Homes More Effectively, Faster, and for More Money
Today’s market is anything but slow for sellers, but according to our research, choosing the right agent still makes a big difference. Homes listed with a Redfin Agent sell faster, for more money, and are more likely to sell. Read More
Redfin on TechCrunch: The Maximum, Beautiful Product
Happy New Year! On the last day of 2012, Redfin published The Maximum, Beautiful Product, a TechCrunch post questioning whether the lean startup’s relentlessly incremental approach to shipping the minimum viable product is likely to lead to big technology breakthroughs: If Steve Jobs had shipped the minimum viable iPhone, might we have concluded that people… Read More
A Beautiful Find
Redfin today launched Redfin Collections, a gorgeous new Redfin.com feature for you to share sets of listing photos with your friends, your real estate agent and the vast Redfin community of real estate aficionados: Already the thousands of Redfin fans invited to a September trial of Collections have created a catalog of desire, collecting photos… Read More
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
Why Do People Become Redfin Agents?
Big news! Redfin just published a video about why people become Redfin agents. I make a corny appearance at the beginning and the end, but mostly we just ask Redfin agents what they like about it here. And they respond in very genuine, and sometimes surprising, ways: Redfin has already published how much a Redfin… Read More
What the Housing Market Has to Be Thankful for in 2012
Here is Redfin’s monthly email newsletter, with a little about Redfin and a lot about what’s happening in the real estate market. Happy holidays! We have a lot to be thankful for don’t we? After everyone gave up hope, the housing market emerged from the basement for the first time in six years, and is… Read More
You Look Beautiful Darling
We’re proud to introduce the new Redfin home details page, which shows the photos, details and history of 35 million U.S. homes, condos, townhomes and land on our site. Our customers spend 65% of their time on this one page, and we managed to increase the size of the photos by 35%, made it easier… Read More
The Last Swashbuckler
Redfin just announced a big milestone: we’ve saved consumers more than $100 million in fees, based on more than $8 billion in home sales, with customer satisfaction of 97%. We’ve done it by charging half the usual fee to sell a home, and saving the average buyer an extra $5,000. With all that money, you could… Read More