About Redfin

Redfin is the industry's first online brokerage for buying and selling homes, half Century 21 and half E-Trade. This means we know when you want to use the web and when you want to talk to a real person. Our goal is to change the real estate game in consumers' favor by offering you more data, better-performing agents, and a significant commission refund*.

* Except in Oregon, where we can't offer a refund.

In the markets we serve, we show more homes for sale than any other site –- and more data about each home -- but we aren't just a search site. We use the web to help you through the whole home-buying process, for scheduling home tours, choosing an agent and drafting an offer.

When you're ready to buy or sell a home, we give you a choice of working with our own Redfin agents in major metropolitan areas, or our partner real estate agents in outlying areas. Your agent serves you every step of the way, from tours to pricing, negotiations, contingencies and escrow.

• Better data: in the baloney-filled real estate world, Redfin gives you hard data on how long a property has really been for sale and how well an agent has performed on every transaction, so you can make better choices.
• Better results: because Redfin pays its agents based on customer satisfaction, we can work together to get you a better home price. Industry data shows our own agents negotiate a larger discount off asking price, $3,594 more than traditional agents.
• Better value: the average traditional agent today spends 80% of his time looking for clients. When you come to Redfin having already done your research, our agents can focus on serving you, not selling you. Clients who buy and sell through a Redfin agent can save $20,000 in commissions.

Redfin has completed more than $2 billion in home sales, with a customer-satisfaction rating of 97%.

The company is led by technology entrepreneurs from Plumtree Software and Applied Discovery, and backed by Madrona Venture Group, the original investor in Amazon.com. Other investors include Greylock Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vulcan Capital, BEV Capital and The Hillman Company.

We offer local service in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Portland, OR, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC; we are expanding nationwide over the next few years.

Redfin has appeared on "60 Minutes," "Today," in a feature on the cover of Wired, in The New York Times and in USA Today. We have contributed regularly to TechCrunch and to Guy Kawasaki's blog. We also have our own blog and a Twitter feed.