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FF3, Zoom In, New Details Layout, Chicago (Matt Goyer's Real Estate Blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:58:11 GMT

Last week we released a new version of Redfin.com. What happened behind the scenes? FF3 Without a question we dropped the ball on Firefox 3 support. Since we use a variety of components to build Redfin, some of which don’t support certain browsers, we warn if you’re not using a supported browser. FF3 was one of those browsers. [...]

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Explore : Browsers, Technology

Mini Meltdown At The Metropolitan? (333 1st Street #N1906) (SocketSite™)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:50:46 GMT

According to the listing, 333 1st Street #N1906 is now a bank owned studio at the Metropolitan with an asking price of $399,000. And while according to Redfin the 506 square foot #N1906 sold for $885,000 on May 30,...

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Only 15 photos? (Matt Goyer's Real Estate Blog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:37:54 GMT

Redfin users often wonder why Windermere has more photos than Redfin does for many listings. The reason is a combination of things - the NWMLS has a 15 photo limit, Windermere is the largest brokerage in Seattle, Windermere allows their listing agents to upload extra photos. With the NWMLS leading most MLSes with additional data [...]

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Graph Styles (Matt Goyer's Real Estate Blog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:53 GMT

We debate every pixel at Redfin. On Friday the debate was about background color of graphs. White background: Or gray background: Mose, one of our developers with a flair for statistics found this quote justifying gray: “The grey background gives the plot a similar colour (in a typographical sense) to the remainder of the text, ensuring that the graphics [...]

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Redfin Launches Online Real Estate Service in Chicago (PR News Wire )

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Expands Search by More Than 4 Million More Homes, Increasing Redfin's Reach by Almost 40% to 16 Million Homes CHICAGO, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Online real estate broker Redfin Corporation today launched its real estate e-commerce service for the Chicago area, its eighth market overall and first new market in 2008. Redfin's brokerage, headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., now serves...

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Redfin expands in Chicago, Estately in San Diego (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

| Redfin expands in Chicago, Estately in San DiegoThe other night I caught a on Larry King Live about the problems in the real estate market, including comments from real estate magnate Donald Trump, who basically said the housing market is in rough shape in many parts of the country."1,000,000 Foreclosures! Can you save your home?" noted the news crawler at the bottom of the program.Some of...

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Explore : Business, Donald Trump, Entrepreneurs, Larry King Live, Talk Shows

Hoodeo Tries To Match You With Your Ideal Neighborhood (Unfortune)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:49:27 GMT

Given the rise of real estate sites like Trulia and Redfin, it’s clear that the internet has become a primary resource for prospective home shoppers. But what should people do when they don’t know what city to live in, much less which home? Hoodeo, a new website that launched today, is looking to match people [...]

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New Feature: Huntington Beach Real Estate Report (Greetings from Downtown Huntington )

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:28:01 GMT

What's really going on Huntington Beach Real Estate I'm happy to welcome Ellie Fields, who works for Redfin, an online real estate company who will provide us with real estate reports on a semi-regular basis, I hope. Huntington Beach Real...

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Fire at Seattle Data Center Impacts Redfin (Data Center Knowledge)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:37:20 GMT

The words "fire" and "data center" are never a happy combination. The online real estate service Redfin reports that it was offline for five hours Saturday:There was a fire in the Seattle-based data center that Redfin uses to host our web servers, causing a loss of service between approximately 5... Read more at our web site

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Explore : Servers

Roundup: Redfin's fire, HipCricket, Delve (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:18:00 GMT

Atlas Accelerator, which assists startup companies with sales, financing, product development and other business items, continues to add new services. (Last month, it bulked up in startup recruiting.) This time it is marketing and public relations, adding Cornelius Willis of the Platform Marketing Group. "Adding our Internet PR and search practice will help start-up companies get launched and get noticed...

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Redfin Co-Founder and Ex-Zillowite to Launch Fridge Door (http://www.rentbits.com/blog/feed)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:48:23 GMT

Michael Dougherty, who co-founded Redfin and was then at Zillow, will be launching a new start-up called Fridge Door. SeattlePI.com says the start-up will not be in the real estate space but rather the “personal communications space.” I am also guessing that Fridge Door will not be the name used for the start-up after launch considering [...]

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Explore : Zillow

Redfin co-founder raises cash for Fridge Door (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:15:00 GMT

Michael Dougherty, who co-founded Redfin and then spent time at Zillow.com, has raised $830,000 in startup cash for Fridge Door.

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Online start-up Redfin saves home buyers money (USA Today)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:27:43 GMT

Redfin, an online start-up in Seattle has rocked the real estate market especially after a legal settlement last month between ...

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Is Silicon Valley The Place To Be? (Mapping The Web)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:06:00 GMT

In February, a spat between Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and Glenn Kelman of Redfin re-ignited the age-old debate of whether it is better to launch a start-up in Silicon Valley or whether physical location matters in the Internet age.

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Explore : Michael Arrington, TechCrunch

When Is an Owner Willing to Slash the Price? (US News)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Redfin CEO has a list of "tells" signaling when a home seller is willing to cut a deal.

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Redfin Visiting Microsoft this Thursday! (Matt Goyer's Real Estate Blog)

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:29:19 GMT

Angela (operations), Chelsea (real estate operations), and myself (products) will be visiting the Eastside this Thursday to meet with Microsofties interested in Redfin. We’ll be at the Azteca Bellevue from 6:30 to 9 PM. Come eat and share your thoughts. Did you know we give even more money back to Microsofties? Interesting aside, yesterday we started [...]

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Redfin's relief after real estate settlement (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:55:00 GMT

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the National Association of Realtors have settled a 3-year-old civil suit that bolsters the position of online real estate firms such as Seattle-based Redfin.

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Redfin claims sale of $7M home (The Puget Sound Business Journal )

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:40:51 GMT

Redfin Corp., the Seattle online real estate broker, said it participated in the sale of three homes worth more than $2 million each in April, including one home that sold for $7 million.

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Explore : Business

Roundup: Redfin, McObject, PopCap, IPOs (John Cook's Venture Blog)

johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:42:00 GMT

The real estate market is in the pot, but Redfin says it is having some success selling homes at the high-end of the market. The Seattle online real estate broker said it completed three transactions in one month that exceeded $2 million, with one home surpassing $7 million. Since the beginning of the year, the company said it has helped 14 home buyers purchase homes over $1 million, with Chief...

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Explore : IPOs

What's Next For Estately? (Matt Goyer's Real Estate Blog)

Thu, 22 May 2008 07:04:17 GMT

From the Future of Real Estate Marketing interview with Galen: With the remaining money we’re going to build out some new features for our competitors to copy and we’re going to be expanding into new markets. We’ve received quite a few requests for new inspiring ideas from Redfin and Trulia of late, so we’re cooking up [...]

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