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

Tara Steele — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:26:24 +0000

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 [...]

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Redfin releases iPad app featuring Redfin’s Special Blend

Tara Steele — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:34:58 +0000

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 [...]

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Redfin says homes listed in the winter sell best – infographic

Tara Steele — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:33:10 +0000

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 [...]

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

Lani Rosales — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:05:28 +0000

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 [...]

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

Lani Rosales — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:29:44 +0000

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 [...]

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

Marti Trewe — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:21:22 +0000

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 [...]

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

Marti Trewe — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:25:56 +0000

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 [...]

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

Lani Rosales — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:02:39 +0000

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 [...]

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

Tara Steele — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:37:47 +0000

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 [...]

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Redfin and fifty of their referral program agents part ways

Lani Rosales — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:26:41 +0000

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 [...]

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