Chris Glew – Redfin Advantage essayist and Boston hockey fan – stopped another fur-flying meeting in its tracks last week with an arresting observation. He said that even in this slow real estate market, he could tell just by looking when a new listing was going to sell in a couple of days. “I see […]
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Redfin Short Sale Policy Update: We’re sorry, Redfin no longer tours or services offers on short sales. Like the bad-news boyfriend you can’t cut loose of, Redfin has gotten mixed up with a lot of short sales lately, where a homeowner is selling a house for less than he owes on his mortgage. At our
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Evan, one of several old roommates who still put me up on visits to San Francisco, is perhaps the most dignified person I know. He has the deep, resonant voice of a Jewish Darth Vader, and the oddly punctuated speech of Christopher Walken. He rarely blinks and when he does, it seems like an important
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April 24, 2008 addition: Redfin is correcting how it calculates the weighted average in the Redfin Advantage report. Greg Wharton, the general counsel at my last job, liked to answer questions enigmatically. When I asked him if a software pawnshop in Florida was trying to buy us, he would smile and say, “answering that question
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Our very own PM, Matt Goyer, recently setup his Seattle condos WordPress blog to include a syndication of new Redfin listings. We thought it would be a great idea to share how we did this. Required Plugins SimplePie Core SimplePie Plugin for WordPress Steps to Follow Install the plugins listed above Create a writable cache
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Out of nowhere last week, an NPR producer sent us a note asking about Redfin’s March Madness plans. At first I thought she was talking about last week’s open houses release. Then I was about to say we aren’t doing anything special, but double-checked first with Redfin power forwards Klaus Gosma and Loren Ellingson, who
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