Like several markets across the country, Austin has seen a shortage of inventory combined with soaring demand, resulting in rampant bidding wars. So, as we were preparing to launch our Austin market back in April, we had a feeling that our first Austin agent Cyndy Stewart and her team had better arm themselves for the onslaught of… Read More
Hooray! Eighteen months after launching our website and mobile tools for Austin, Redfin has begun offering Austin service from our own Austin-based agents. Now Austinites can buy or sell a home via a Redfin agent paid based on customer satisfaction, and armed with the latest technology for scheduling tours, pricing homes, optimizing listing traffic and collaborating… Read More
Over on the national blog, we just posted another big analysis of hundreds of thousands of listings and sales. Here are the numbers for Austin, where winter is still a winning time to list your home a better chance of selling, and a better price (but not necessarily a quick sale): Read More
In case you missed it over on the corporate blog, Redfin has just launched our Android app! (And there was much rejoicing.) Android fans have been very, very vocal about wanting their own Redfin app, and thanks to the hard work of a crack team of engineers, the day has arrived. Go find out more!… Read More
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. I spent mine lying on the couch, mewling like a sick kitten, but that’s neither here nor there. I was a Redfin addict before I was an employee, and sometimes I forget that there’s a lot of stuff on our site that not everybody knows about. Some… Read More
Hey all, So, my original plan was to write a big long post going over every last nook ‘n cranny of our reader poll results in painstaking detail. But then I remembered that I basically have the attention span of a fruit fly. So instead, I’m just going to post Pretty Bar Graphs of the… Read More
As part of their neighborhood stabilization program, Fannie Mae is offering buyers’ assistance through a couple of different programs, HomePath and First Look. HomePath HomePath helps buyers buy covering their closing costs, up to 3.5% of the home’s purchase price. To qualify, buyers must be purchasing a HomePath property; this is a home that is… Read More
Hey everyone! I wanted to say a big fat wet sloppy thank you to everyone who participated in last week’s reader poll. There were nearly 800 of you, and almost everyone had something useful, informative, or enlightening to contribute. (There was, of course, a small but vocal minority who did nothing but make dirty jokes… Read More
I’m just going to level with y’all. It’s one of my performance goals to write one of these blog posts every week, and every week, I approach the goal with a healthy heapin’ spoonful of a little something I like to call dread, or as they call it in German, dredenscheiningruvenshtocken.* Now at first I… Read More
Imagine you’d bought a home, and one day you went into the attic while chasing after a raccoon and– What? No. I don’t know why you’re chasing a raccoon. Maybe it stole your sandwich.* Anyway, you climb into the attic, wrestle the raccoon into submission, reclaim your sandwich, and then look over and see a… Read More