Our irrepressible founder, Dave Eraker, is headlining a panel discussion on online real estate at the MIT Enterprise Forum tonight at the Bellevue Hyatt. He’s appearing alongside two executives from Zillow and one from House Values. He’ll be the only representative of an online company whose customer is the consumer. The event is sold out. […]
Cue Dave Eraker, Redfin Founder! Read More »
Thanks in part to suggestions from some of our blogging friends, Redfin has published a new version of our site, with a larger map, and a mouse-over feature that lets consumers see prices and # of rooms! We worried that it would be too much for people with small, low-resolution monitors, but decided after some
Under pressure from the Department of Justice, the Kentucky legislature this week abandoned a bill that would have given the state’s real estate commission the power to set minimum levels of customer service, regardless of whether customers wanted that level of service. Like most state real estate commissions, the Kentucky commission is stacked with four
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Redfin has quadrupled in size over the past few months, which isn’t hard to do when you start small. Now we’re hitting the college campuses in search of brilliant people. This worked well for us at my previous venture, Plumtree, where we set out to get the best engineers from Stanford and Berkeley. We grew
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Redfin appeared today in the New York Times. The article was the 2nd-most e-mailed article on the New York Times’s site. The article also discussed Zillow’s launch. We were glad to see that Zillow seems to have no intention of being an online broker, since that’s what we do. In fact we may advertise on
An overview of some of the thinking that went into launching Redfin Direct, the first online service for buying a home.
Introducing Redfin Direct (And Redfin’s Blog)… Read More »