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Redfin attended the Technology Alliance annual luncheon today, to see who would win the startup of the year award. I brought my computer to the awards ceremony so I could work in the bathroom. We arrived a little late and tucked right into the meal. But then we were moved by the speeches about improving […]

About a week after Redfin showed up on 60 Minutes, Century 21 started running an ad challenging the idea that you could buy a home online (video of ad no longer available on YouTube due the account being suspended). “Some people think they can do it all on the computer,” the actor says. “Find a

Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that we have in love to learn only this: letting go. Everything else comes naturally. In starting Sweet Digs, a blog that provided independent, eyewitness reviews of houses for sale, we had forgotten this advice. (Bahn Lee, Sweet Digs mastermind) After almost a year of negotiations came to a head

Redfin and the traditional real estate industry duked it out on 60 Minutes last night. The segment aired second, after Mitt Romney took a stand against polygamy, but was the most popular video until losing out to a wayward penguin who swam 3,000 miles to Peru (Sasha Aickin just sent an e-mail around saying “we

Pandemonium here at Redfin as 60 Minutes aired first on the East Coast and now, in a few minutes, out here in the West. When the show aired in the East, our site became very slow. Chris Neitzert scrambled to keep every server online. Michael Arrington blogged about us on TechCrunch. The hate-mail began pouring

Redfin has been showing up all over the place lately. Some Redfin customers were on a Seattle TV news magazine the other night, looking oddly proud but also a little self-conscious about uprooting a bedroom vanity with their bare hands, while Redfin super-agent Kelly Engel and her one-eyed chihuahua closed deals left and right. A