Howdy, neighbor! Redfin is setting up shop in a new neck of the woods, Oklahoma City, and extending its roots in Tennessee to Knoxville. People in Knoxville and Oklahoma City can now work with local Redfin agents to buy and sell homes in these areas and can use the Redfin online and mobile tools to search for every home on the market.
Redfin has a unique approach to real estate that combines technology and top-notch customer service to create a better home-buying and selling experience for consumers. Redfin technology empowers both our agents and customers with information and tools that make buying and selling a home more efficient, less stressful and more fun.
Redfin real estate agents spend zero time looking for new business. This means we can focus all our time on delivering great service while helping clients buy or sell their homes. This efficiency enables Redfin to pass savings on to clients through lower listing fees.
Redfin charges sellers a 1.5 percent listing fee rather than the typical fees, which can be as much as 3 percent, while providing the complete home-selling service, from pricing and staging advice and professional photography through the negotiation and closing processes. On average, a person who sells a home with a Redfin agent saves about $6,800. To date, Redfin has saved its customers more than $200 million in real estate fees.
Like other Redfin real estate agents, our agents in Knoxville and Oklahoma City earn a salary and receive health care and other benefits. Redfin agents are paid bonuses based on customer satisfaction, not commission.
To deliver this great service, we need great leaders. Here’s who we hired:
Matthew Howe, Knoxville: Matthew is an East Tennessee native and University of Tennessee alum. He has been helping people buy and sell homes in the Knoxville area since 2000, most recently as principal broker with Prodigy Properties. Matthew is living his long-term dream as a real estate agent who takes pride in fighting for his clients’ best interests. He knows that Tennesseans will embrace Redfin’s business model rooted in customer advocacy and savings.
Michelle Leader, Oklahoma City: Michelle began her career in real estate in Wichita in 2009, and within her first year as an agent, she was voted Rookie of the Year by Keller Williams Signature Partners, where she helped develop policies and practices for other new agents. She joins Redfin from the Dave Neal brokerage, where, in addition to working as an agent, she developed marketing strategy and training programs for new agents. Michelle moved to back Oklahoma City to be closer to family and friends, and use her extensive background in real estate, marketing and training to build the Redfin team and business in Oklahoma.
Matthew and Michelle are already on the ground touring homes with buyers and guiding them through the offer, negotiation and closing processes, and helping people sell their homes. If you’re thinking about buying or selling, feel free to reach out to Matthew, Michelle, schedule a tour or start a conversation about your home’s value. Redfin.com and the Redfin mobile apps also offer several ways to find out about homes for sale and what the local market is like even before you’re ready to dip your toe in the water, including:
- Instant Tour Scheduling: Ability to instantly schedule a home tour with a Redfin agent with a single click from a browser, iPhone, iPad or Android app.
- Instant Updates: Smartphone or email notifications when new homes are listed or when prices drop.
- Redfin Hot Homes: Proprietary algorithm that indicates which homes for sale are likely to sell within two weeks.
- Redfin Home Value Tool: A more accurate way to find out what your home is worth using self-selected comparable homes for sale in your market.
- Search by School: Shows all the homes for sale served by a certain school with one easy search.
- Tour and Offer Insights: Real-time statistics and notes from Redfin agents about thousands of homes and offers.
- Redfin 3D Walkthrough: High-resolution, interactive views from every angle inside homes listed with a Redfin agent. (coming soon)
- Redfin Matchmaker: Software that recommends unexpected listings to Redfin clients.
- Deal Room: A real-time guide through the closing process, including milestones, deadlines and tasks.
- Redfin Open Book: Reviews of lenders, inspectors and title companies for buyers and handymen, stagers and more with feedback from Redfin agents.
We’re looking forward to meeting you! Stay tuned for announcements about our first free home-buying classes in Knoxville and Oklahoma City.
We’re hiring! To learn more about working at Redfin and to apply for open positions in Knoxville, Oklahoma City and other locations, please visit redfin.com/jobs.
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