Last month, we rolled out a major service upgrade for home buyers in every market Redfin serves except Seattle and DC, where we needed to hire more agents. We hired 14 new agents in Seattle over the last two months, so the wait is over. We thought you might have some questions. What’s changed? The… Read More
Big news! Today, Redfin is launching a major expansion to our charter as a technology-powered real estate broker: Redfin Open Book, a local reviews site for lenders and inspectors, is now available in Seattle. Soon, we’ll add the stagers, landscapers and handymen used by sellers to get their home on the market. Our goal is to… Read More
With a sudden spike this year of reports from our agents in the field that they were coming up against multiple offer situations in which buyers were making all-cash offers, I was curious to know what percentage of homes sold in King County recently were bought with all-cash. Since any job worth doing is worth… Read More
It’s time (a bit past time, actually) for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all… Read More