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
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
Today, we’re officially launching the remaining sections of our Home Buying Guide. This is something we’ve been working on for a long, long time, and it feels good to get it out the door. That’s not to say we won’t continue trying to make the guide an even better resource for home buyers; we’ll be… Read More
If you’re just starting to look for a home, you may be a little confused by the paperwork involved with getting a mortgage. Wouldn’t it be great if someone could give you a line-by-line explanation of the forms you’ll be dealing with during the home-buying process? We thought so too. That’s why we’ve created annotated… Read More
Redfin’s monthly real estate insider report draws from our proprietary database of information on homes for sale and that just sold, along with insight from our agents to get a sense of what’s going on in the market right now. If you’d like to receive the report via email, just sign up. Greetings Redfinnians! Welcome… 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
Seven Redfin Washington Metro & Baltimore agents finished in the top 20 out of the 8,690+ buyers agents in the area in the first quarter of 2011. We pulled these numbers from MRIS, the database for real estate transactions and listings for Baltimore-Washington, DC region, and ranked agents who represented home-buyers of single-family homes and condominiums… Read More
Redfin’s monthly Washington & Baltimore metro area real estate insider report draws from our proprietary database of information on homes for sale and that just sold, along with insight from our agents to get a sense of what’s going on in the market right now. If you’d like to receive the report via email, just… Read More
Case-Shiller: More Home Price Drops as 2011 Kicks Off 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… Read More