When Redfin first launched our home-buying service, David Eraker sent an email to the whole company that I’ll never forget: “Strap in Team Redfin. We’re in for a wild ride.” No truer statement has ever been made about Redfin’s journey, which took another turn last week when we launched Redfin Scouting Report. We made big […]
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Over the weekend, the U.S. stopped guaranteeing big loans in expensive cities, and ever since the folks in real estate have been holding our breaths to see the market’s reaction. Now Redfin has released new data showing which areas are most vulnerable to the policy change.
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Whoa nelly! Redfin just released Redfin Scouting Report, offering Redfin users and customers free performance statistics on more than one million real estate agents: how many homes each agent sold, where, for how much, how fast, with how many price drops, how recently, all on a map. Now just by typing in a name you can get
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On hearing this week that Barnes & Noble stock traded up on 140% growth for its e-book reader, the Nook, I had only one thought: more gadgets, please. If a book retailer can develop a device that sells like hotcakes, the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Seattle surely can too. The fact that Barnes &
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In the wee hours of the morning we released our latest Redfin upgrade; not only did we upgrade our site, but our service, too. Now, in addition to helping you tour short sales, Redfin agents can also help you purchase them! We also revamped our agent profiles and threw in a few other bonuses. Short
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Every month, Redfin publishes two newsletters on real estate prices. One, usually published on the last Tuesday of every month, is a Redfin Roundup, which synthesizes data collected by economists, government agencies and others to provide a complete portrait of what happened in the market over the past month. The other is Redfin Insider, usually
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