Keyword: Redfin

Zillow ends Listings API, pulls FSBOs from Redfin, other sites

Zillow ends Listings API, pulls FSBOs from Redfin, other sites

Pulling FSBOs Redfin announced today that their site will no longer feature homes for sale by owner (FSBO), beginning Thursday, as Zillow will no longer be sending FSBO and other manually posted listings to be displayed on their site. Redfin is not alone, as this impacts any real estate brokerage, website or service that is featuring listings through Zillow’s Postings ...

Tara Steele | 2012/02/06  | 16 Comments Business News

Redfin releases iPad app featuring Redfin’s Special Blend

Redfin releases iPad app featuring Redfin’s Special Blend

Redfin releases iPad app As with the large real estate media companies, Redfin has hopped on the iPad app bandwagon, and why not? Smartphones offer great speed and portability but everyone knows that real estate searching is a visual game and iPads offer a large screen to allow for full screen photos, as demonstrated above. The company noted that they ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/19  | 16 Comments News

Redfin says homes listed in the winter sell best – infographic

Redfin says homes listed in the winter sell best – infographic

Selling homes in the winter It’s cold. It’s snowing. It’s windy. It’s miserable. This house will never sell until the sun comes back out. Not so, says Redfin who affirms what those of us in Texas know – homes listed in the winter statistically sell the best. Real estate brokerage Redfin.com recently set out to determine when is the best ...

Tara Steele | 2011/12/08  | 26 Comments News

Redfin calls for transparency in real estate industry but not for themselves – story updated

Redfin calls for transparency in real estate industry but not for themselves – story updated

Redfin flip flopping in public Redfin recently received a round of funding that brought their total amount raised to $46 million, raised because of Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman’s ties to the tech and investing world in addition to their reputation as being “revolutionary” in the real estate industry and “transparent.” It seems the company is back to shake things up ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/11/16  | 24 Comments News

Redfin gets $15M investment, has now raised roughly $46 million

Redfin gets $15M investment, has now raised roughly $46 million

Investment in Redfin jumps by $15M Real estate company, Redfin has announced today the $15 million that has put them almost at the $50 million mark. Globespan Capital Partners led the investment which included previous investors Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Greylock Partners. Redfin touts that as fewer homes are sold and other brokerages struggle, they ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/10/27  | 15 Comments News

Is Redfin fudging their production stats, counting teams as one agent?

Is Redfin fudging their production stats, counting teams as one agent?

Can the Redfin model be reported like others? It is often grumbled about on the West Coast that Redfin touts that their brokerage comprises of a consistent percentage of various markets’ “top agents,” comparing their production numbers to single agents in the same market. This fall, Redfin’s Courtney Wenclawski wrote, “Nine Redfin Washington Metro & Baltimore agents finished in the ...

Marti Trewe | 2011/10/19  | 14 Comments News

What is the best day of the week to list a home?

What is the best day of the week to list a home?

First impressions count “Since you only get one chance to make a first impression with your listing,” said Tim Ellis, Product Manager for Statistics and Trends at Redfin, “we decided to dig into our data to find out whether putting your home on the market on a certain day of the week is correlated with sales success.” After analyzing over ...

Marti Trewe | 2011/10/18  | 36 Comments News

Radical CEO falls on the sword after an admirable try at the impossible

Radical CEO falls on the sword after an admirable try at the impossible

The end of Scouting Reports? Only four days after the launch of Scouting Reports by real estate brokerage Redfin which published Realtors’ performance data on their site, the company has announced that they are permanently ending the reports. On their blog, Kelman wrote, “Redfin just took down Scouting Report 1.0 for good. Our latest problem was that the data we ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/10/05  | 41 Comments Editorials

Don’t like the conversation on your performance data? Then change it

Don’t like the conversation on your performance data? Then change it

Redfin releases sales data of most Realtors Redfin, the discount brokerage that some in the industry love and some love to hate, got a lot of press for rolling out a new “Scouting Report” that shows consumers information about agent performance based on MLS statistics. It was initially rolled out in 15 markets, but was quickly yanked from several after ...

Matt Fuller | 2011/10/04  | 21 Comments Editorials

Redfin Scouting Reports upset sleepy industry, but they’re three years too late

Redfin Scouting Reports upset sleepy industry, but they’re three years too late

Scouting Report goes public More than a dozen major markets now feature Realtor performance data for public consumption in the form of their new “Scouting Report” which currently offers data on a million agents based on information from local multiple listing services. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman notes the helpful nature of consumers accessing the data to see which agents have ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/10/03  | 18 Comments News

Redfin updates iPhone and Android apps, staying true to their startup DNA

Redfin updates iPhone and Android apps, staying true to their startup DNA

Redfin’s tech updates Real estate brokerage Redfin.com is well known for being ahead of the curve with technology, and this week has announced a number of updates to their iPhone and Android apps and they will soon release their iPad app. Their clientele is often tech savvy and have high expectations on their tech offering, so the rapid pace of ...

Tara Steele | 2011/09/15  | 10 Comments Smartphones

Redfin and fifty of their referral program agents part ways

Redfin and fifty of their referral program agents part ways

Redfin down fifty agents National discount brokerage Redfin operates a “tiny, exclusive partner program” in areas where they do not operate offices and recently announced they have removed 50 partner agents from the program mostly in part to “mixed reviews” from consumers. Redfin is notorious for asking consumers for feedback on agents through various steps in the real estate transaction ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/05/09  | 29 Comments News