All Redfin Reports

OK, We Can Be Moved .01%

March 1, 2007

Thanks to McKinsey-trained Kevin Boer, one of several brokers who reviewed Redfin’s NWMLS data, Redfin has discovered that we screwed up the accounting for one transaction in our analysis of Redfin’s negotiating advantage. Except for this transaction, Kevin seems to have corroborated our analysis. We originally reported that our King County buyers got a final

Here We Stand, For We Cannot Be Moved

February 27, 2007

Publishing MLS data that shows that Redfin got a better deal for buyers than agents at other brokerages sparked a riot yesterday: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. We also showed up in Freakonomics (holy cow!). There has been a healthy discussion about how to interpret the data: whether

A Year’s Numbers Come in From the MLS: Redfin Agents Negotiate Better

February 26, 2007

Redfin announced big news today, publishing MLS data that indicates our agents negotiate significantly better than their counterparts at traditional brokerages. Last month at Brad Inman’s big real estate conference in New York, Realtor.com President Allan Dalton accused Redfin and other critics of a “massive level of disingenuous communication,” because we ignore the likelihood that

Virtual Idealists

January 29, 2007

Steve Jobs is the Internet generation’s Robert Kennedy. Close your eyes, and the Apple CEO even sounds like a Kennedy: follow your passion, the charismatic icon tells our youth; change the world. Except Jobs is selling gadgets, not civil rights. No one seems to have noticed. Now, oil companies gush over the environment. Insurance ads

Twice the Size, Virtual Earth and Meebo

January 12, 2007

We finally made it! Redin now covers twice the ground we used to in the Seattle and Bay Areas, we’re on Virtual Earth and you can IM us using Meebo. Here are a few of us in the Seattle office last night launching the new Redfin site. Twice the ground It wasn’t until I started

Redfin Moves the Earth