Redfin Seattle agents took seven of the top ten spots for King & Snohomish counties in April, May & June 2011! Of the 4,900+ buyers’ agents who closed a deal in the second quarter of 2011, twenty-four of our agents were ranked. These numbers come from the NWMLS, which tracks real estate transactions in Washington State…. Read More
So far this summer the real estate market in Seattle is about as exciting as a Matlock Marathon at the High School Prom. Very few quality, well-priced new listings are coming on the market, and when one finally does, it’s the same story every time as the few buyers that are out there all descend… 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
Every month, we publish a nationwide newsletter to hundreds of thousands of people. Many write back, asking me for pricing advice on their Boca Raton condo or their Berkeley ashram, and I always try to hook up my new pen-pal with a true local expert. Usually, that’s the last I hear of it. But this… Read More
It’s time 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 the homes that sold in… 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
If you’re moving, have moved, will be moving, will have been moving, or will have had been moving, you’ll probably end up with a lot of styrofoam: packing peanuts, styrofoam sheets, big bulky blocks… you know the stuff. I bought a house a year ago and I’ve got a garage full of the stuff. I… 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