Hey Beautiful, Upload Your Photo!

Big news! Redfin upgraded its website last night to improve the performance of map-based search, which is quite zippy now. The site has been creaking under the load of more than a million new visitors this spring, so you’ll see more performance improvements over the next few months. The site also looks a little different… Read More

What $800 Billion Buys You: 7.6% More Pageviews

After Tuesday’s announcement of a monster $800 billion stimulus package led to the largest mortgage-rate drop in seven years, on the same day that the latest Case Shiller data showed the largest-ever year-over-year drop in home prices, we wondered if more home-buyers might start poking at Redfin’s site. So I just checked Google Analytics, which… Read More