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Twice the Size, Virtual Earth and Meebo

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

There’s a pretty big technology change on Redfin.com today – the integration of Microsoft Virtual Earth as our underlying map platform. Redfin pioneered the use of satellite maps to display information about for sale homes. We built an in-house mapping solution using imagery acquired from various sources (mostly the USGS.) Since then a few other

Holy Guacamole! Move.com Squares Off with Redfin at Inman

At real estate’s big Inman technology conference in Manhattan, Redfin squared off with Allan Dalton, Move.com’s President of Real Estate, in a keynote session entitled high-touch vs. high-tech, about the differences between online brokers and traditional real estate agents. Move.com runs Realtor.com for the National Association of Realtors, publishing listings nationwide. It has also threatened

Finding Price Reductions on Redfin

Did you know that on Redfin you can sign up to receive e-mails about what is happening with listings in the neighborhood you are house hunting in? What I find this feature most useful for is tracking price reductions. But you can also use it to find out when new listings come on the market

Redfin Holiday Party

The Redfin Holiday Party was in many ways different from last year’s party: 1. No one said he had to leave to meet his parole officer. 2. The “potluck” did not entail employees buying a Safeway fried chicken & expensing it. 3. Both women and men willingly attended. 4. The world’s most eligible Korean bachelor

Show Me the Money!

Yesterday’s The Wall Street Journal article – “Do Real-Estate Agents Have a Secret Agenda?” – reported on the well-known, but often undisclosed, practice of sellers offering buyers’ agents additional incentives to close a deal. Sometimes when properties, typically new developments, are not selling as fast as the builder had anticipated they offer additional incentives. Similar

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