This week Redfin shuttered its hyperlocal Sweet Digs blogs in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego and Orange County.
Sweet Digs Seattle is still alive but it looks like it has turned into a more traditional brokerage blog; now just advertising Redfin’s new listings and open houses.
Sweet Digs was initially founded to replicate the formula pioneered by [...]
In what is likely the first of many more of these sorts of announcements in the real estate space, Redfin is laying off 20% of their employees.
In a post on its company blog yesterday, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman explained that the layoffs were due to the company being hit by market conditions that “wiped out [...]
by tropicdiver
Redfin’s new release is breaking new barriers, literally - they are adding bank-owned foreclosures and for-sale-by-owner inventory along side alongside their MLS listings (more from 4realz.net). The first, as far as I know, of any major brokerage to do so.
Definitely a smart move for the company which has long been out front pushing for [...]
Like many in the real estate blogosphere I’ve been playing around with Twitter a lot recently. (Follow me here jburslem)
I wrote a post on the Inman Blog recently where I described one application of the service; how you could use it to subscribe to news and essentially build a real time teleprinter for your [...]
So the company claims. If you use its services you will save over $15K says Glenn Kelman on the Redfin Blog, quoting results of a new analysis of their business model:
Redfin home-buyers over the past twelve months paid on average 1.015% below homes’ asking price, while customers of other brokerages paid .087% below asking price.
This [...]
Say what you like about their business model, Redfin’s real estate search tools are world class and only keep getting better.It’s why it was the only national real estate broker (I defined “national” as anyone having operations that spanned both coasts) to make my list of 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites.They’ve just released [...]
It seems to happen like clockwork these days, Redfin launches a new feature on its website - Mike Arrington writes another fawning review on Techcrunch.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Redfin. I really admire what they are trying do. Plus, Glenn Kelman is a really nice guy and an absolute master at playing up his [...]
Redfin on the Today Show tomorrow.
Glenn Kelmann will be on with Al Roker Friday morning at 7:40am sharp.
He’ll be giving a forecast on the housing market and sharing some tips to help move a house in slow market. The angle? They’ve developed these tips according to “scientific analysis” of market conditions. The full report is [...]
ActiveRain scored a major coup this month by moving in to the top 10 on Marcelo Calbucci’s Seattle Startup Index for December. Zillow still sits in the top 3 while Redfin drops out of the top 20.
The index averages and ranks the Alexa Rank and Compete Rank usage scores for all the web sites in [...]
Glenn Kelman, responding to a a comment thread on a post by John Cook to allegations that they are just a discount real estate brokerage with a web site and a call center.
Regarding the comment that Redfin isn’t a technology company: is Amazon just a discount bookstore with a website and a warehouse?
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