2. We hope to soon add a more comprehensive listing history that will address this concern.

3. If you don’t see stats go to Map Settings and select Statistics to turn it back on.

4. We hope to add a price reduction checkbox soon. Have you signed up for our Listing Update emails? http://www.redfin.com/help/search/get-listing-updates

5. Have you checked out the Download Results feature which lets you download data to Excel or Google Spreadsheet?

6/7. We plan on adding this in the fall.

Matt Goyer
Lead Product Manager – Search
Redfin

well… since we’re on this topic. I have some additions I would love to see to the Redfin site! You guys have so much data going through, you should create some statistics of your own.

Some ideas …
1. After a house has sold, you have very little info available. Why can’t you keep some of the info that was available while the house was selling … such as … sq footage of property, original asking price, and subsequent price changes, etc.

2. Sometimes a house is on the market, and then it isn’t. And then it is. It’s days on redfin only accumulates the most recent time on the market. Couldn’t you have a tally like … number of times on market since last sale. So, the buyer can know how serious these people are about negotiating and/or selling.

3. You could offer more stats on your list. Like I can sort by increasing or decreasing price, $/sq ft, etc, but I would love to know an average of these things as well at the bottom of my list.

4. You have a search check box that says new listings. It would be great if I could check something like .. .new listings, recent price changes, and maybe changes to description (new photos or whatnot). I check redfin everyday, and I would love to see the new and the changes pop up, instead of hunting through them on my own.

5. The ability to download more data than can be displayed on the screen. That way I can make my own stats, and graphs trends for the zip code (or 2), that I’m looking at. Redfin is a site for people who are going to do the majority of the house hunting themselves, empowering us with the data would be a huge step in this direction.

6. In terms of GIS capability. I would love to draw a circle around the area I’m looking at. Sometimes my zoom in, is too zoomed, and my zoomed out includes too many houses. The area I want to look at is more vertical than horizontal. Which with google maps you don’t get as much North-South as you do East-West. Being able to draw a circle around my area (yes, it crosses more than one zip code), would enable me to look at just the area I want.

7. Similarly (and this would be harder), I would love to draw buffers, say, I want to find something “near” a school or a shopping promenade, or maybe I want to see everything except those that are near something (say freeway). I know buffers would be an advanced capability, but they would be so much fun!

some of these would be much easier than they sound (trust me – I know data and I know google-maps).

thanks!
candice

Now, seriously, they want us to go see the places without telling us when they’re built? It’s not going to happen, not in this market.

I am surprised that they gave us the info but don’t include it on their own online listings. I have to think they’re planning to. I hope someone from CLAW comes on and explains.

Here’s one to you, Cindy, and to all consumers and advocates who’ve been pressing and waiting for this.

Still, it’s a dense mystery to me why an organization whose charter is to provide information would push back so long and so hard to withhold it – and continues, in some cases, to do so.