Posts about changes to Redfin’s website.
Redfin opened for business in Denver today, the sixth market we’ve launched in the past twelve months, and our 16th overall. We hired the perfect person to run the business, a dog-rescuing, snowshoeing outdoors fanatic: Michelle Ackerman. She’s someone who totally personifies our values, of putting the customer first, and always telling the complete truth… Read More
Big news! Redfin launched a bunch of new technologies last night — an online Deal Room to guide our home-buying customers through escrow, the ability to log in via Facebook and the introduction of partner agents into areas once exclusively served by our own agents — and we expanded to Dallas, our 15th market, and… Read More
More big news! A few days after launching clustering and an interactive guide to key escrow documents, Redfin expanded our search site to Las Vegas and Austin this morning, increasing the number of markets we cover from 12 to 14, and increasing the number of homes for sale on Redfin’s site by 5.1%. Giving regular… Read More
Today we launched an update to our website expanding our mortgage guide to a home buying guide and improving the usability and performance of our search experience. Here are the full details on what’s new: Closing on a home demystified There’s a lot to know when buying a home. To help you understand it all… Read More
Somebody at Twitter likes us. Redfin today was one of about 30 launch partners to get advance notice on the new Tweet Button that allows you to easily use Twitter to share a listing with your legion of fans, without ever leaving the Redfin site. As of about 8 this morning, the new button is… Read More
Big news! After a long hiatus in which all our software development was focused on tools for our agents to schedule tours and monitor deals, some nifty features cropped up on Redfin’s site today, including ratings and reviews of schools, and the first chapter of a home-buying guide, on mortgages. We’re also now including foreclosures in… Read More
One more thing about yesterday’s website upgrade… did you notice how much faster the site loads each listing? The turbo-charging is largely due to the work of our principal engineer, Michael Smedberg, who figured out new ways to cache data about a listing so we don’t have to query our database for basic property history… Read More
Big news Redfinnians! Today we launched a big upgrade to our service for home-sellers, began touring short sales, and opened Phoenix. It’s a lot to cover, so let’s dive right in! The Listing Service Now Includes an In-Home Consultation, More Online Tools Lets talk about the listing service first since that affects every market. The… Read More
Spread the word! Redfin’s finally expanding to Portland, and offering search for most of Western Oregon, which will increase the number of listings on our site by another 8%. We also finally got ‘round to offering x-out, which keeps track of all the properties you don’t want to click on again… As John Cook recently… Read More
The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But better than the Atlanta website is the team behind it, starting with the guy we hired to run our Atlanta business, James Marks. From the moment James explained to us that… Read More