Redfin has hired Tom Vogl as our chief marketing officer. It once seemed hard to ask a total stranger to be the ambassador for Redfin’s brand: of the ten people now on our management team, only one prior to Tom hadn’t been promoted from within Redfin. But almost immediately, we began to feel that Tom […]
The Machine and the Beast Read More »
There has been plenty of talk lately, from Phil Sugar and Ben Horowitz and from me too, about how you have to be a different leader at different stages of a company’s growth. This is almost entirely true. But a tiny, important part of it is a crock. What I notice about the greatest companies,
There has been plenty of talk lately, from Phil Sugar and Ben Horowitz and from me too, about how you have to be a different leader at different stages of a company’s growth. This is almost entirely true. But a tiny, important part of it is a crock. What I notice about the greatest companies,
***UPDATE AS OF JULY 8, 2014: The Redfin homebuyer refund is calculated on a sliding scale, and varies by market. The average refund is about one-third of the buyer’s agent commission, or about 1 percent of the home’s price. To eliminate guesswork, the Redfin refund is specified on the listing page of every home for sale
Introducing Redfin 3.0: Redfin Becomes a No-Brainer Read More »
Redfin is now the top-rated real estate application on every major mobile device. This is an objective fact for Android, where Redfin stands clearly above the competition and it is true for iPhone and iPad too, where our cumulative rating is higher than any other application’s. Cumulative Scores iPhone only iPad Only iPhone & iPad
In the Land of Steve, Quality Counts for Something Read More »
A surprising number of U.S. listings – about 1 in 10 — are sold by a real estate agent who also represents the buyer. How, we wondered, does this work out for the seller who originally hired the real estate agent?
Will I Make More Money if My Listing Agent Also Represents the Buyer? Read More »
