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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
Our website wizards at Redfin are always on the prowl for new features that can wow and amaze our customers. Even more so when it’s a feature you’ve told us you wanted, and that no other major real estate site has. To that end, we launched a feature on our search menu today to let… Read More
One increasingly common refrain I hear among product managers, designers and engineers everywhere is the question of whether a new project will “really move the needle.” During an idle chat with Redfin about how we could analyze traffic patterns and touring activity to determine if a listing was likely to sell quickly, the great Dan… Read More
Redfin just released a new version of the site. In addition to improving our short sale detection in Orange County and parts of LA and making our neighborhood pages a little more discoverable from the map page, we switched to using Google Maps exclusively instead of a mix of Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps…. Read More
Maybe you can’t tell, but we work hard to make Redfin easy to use, going round and round on every design until we’ve forgotten where we started. In an effort to improve our forms, ace product manager Matt Goyer bought a book on usability for one of his young charges, Jim Lamb. But when Jim… Read More
We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map page. Once the box is closed, it disappears until we run a new message. When we released the latest version of Redfin.com, we ran our first message this space announcing… Read More
In our last release we added a “Share on Facebook” link to our details pages that when hovered over brings up a menu from AddThis letting you bookmark the home to your favorite social bookmarking service. Before launching the feature we debated what the top service would be. Glenn, voted for Delicious, I voted for… Read More
While one wing of the Redfin office wrestles about changes to the home tours program the other wing of the office is up in arms over how we surface search options on the map page. When we re-designed our website in April one of the changes we made was hiding the search options. The reasoning… Read More
Redfin has been futzing around with some new designs for the home page of our website and could use your help picking one out. Our goals are to get people searching and to explain how Redfin works. We only get one shot at the explanation because returning visitors see a view of our map as… Read More
Moving to a new neighborhood and want to know how it compares to your current digs? Now you can! Today Redfin added community and school information links on every listing detail page, you even can do head-to-head comparisons. Currently available for Washington and California listings, we’ll add new markets as we expand so you’ll be… Read More