We’ve been experimenting with messages in various locations across Redfin.com. Recently, we placed an announcement in a message box at the top of our map page. Once the box is closed, it disappears until we run a new message. When we released the latest version of Redfin.com, we ran our first message this space announcing […]
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A strange thing happened in online real estate last Friday. After three years of fierce competition and $100+ million in venture capital, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld finally asked real estate websites the $24,000 question: who has the most homes for sale? “The most important success factor for these sites,” Erick writes, “is how comprehensive they are.”
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In a darkened, rank room the size of a windowless van, ten Redfin folks spent most of this week peering through one-way glass at people trying to search Redfin’s site. We expected to be embarrassed. And sure enough, I was often flushed at all the ways we could have made our software simpler. But what
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In a darkened, rank room the size of a windowless van, ten Redfin folks spent most of this week peering through one-way glass at people trying to search Redfin’s site. We expected to be embarrassed. And sure enough, I was often flushed at all the ways we could have made our software simpler. But what
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Redfin’s new neighborhoods release inspired all sorts of reactions. Many, like The Tim on SeattleBubbleBlog, lauded the new release as “a great resource for figuring out what’s going on in the hyper local real estate markets.” Some, such as Alex Coon after studying the price-reductions data for Boston’s South End, waxed poetic: “Like Icarus, the
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Around 1 a.m. last night, after spending a few hours cruising blogs and watching YouTube cycling videos, I found myself up against it and hastily wrote a post about Redfin’s stunning new release that referred to developer Robert Gay as a “man-child.” What I meant by this was a compliment: that, at the tender age
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