On the last Tuesday of every month, just before the Case-Shiller data is released at 6 a.m., we start writing Redfin’s customer newsletter. Which has become a bit of a production. It used to be about what’s happening at Redfin — and sometimes it still is — but most of our time now is spent covering […]
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Case-Shiller data for June 2009 came out this morning. Once we adjust for seasonality — home prices tend to increase in the summer — we still see a nice gain in prices across every metropolitan area Redfin serves except for Seattle. For the first time since May 2006, seasonally adjusted prices increased month-over-month in the
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At Redfin, we’ve long been opposed to dual agency, where the same agent represents both seller and buyer. This hasn’t always been an easy call because in some ways dual agency is more efficient. But it’s hard to represent both sides in a negotiation simultaneously, and the big problem is that it encourages the listing
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Redfin sends out a monthly newsletter that digests all the real estate news from 20 – 30 sources into one portrait of what’s going on in real estate. All the folks who register on our site have the option to get the newsletter, and of course anyone can unsubscribe. By popular demand, we’re now publishing
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For years, it has been fashionable for business-people to approach any problem — choking baby, lonely Friday, cold soup, global warming — by asking Jeff Jarvis’s question: “What would Google do?” But the most admired technology company in the world isn’t Google. It’s Apple. And when it comes to the most admired technology executive, Steve
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In what became the most-discussed post of the day, a mystery author argued yesterday on TechCrunch for regulating Google’s algorithm for ranking search results and ads. The author compares the Internet to a vast, wonderful country — if the Internet were like Italy or Hawaii, and could only be visited two weeks a year, how
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