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Brown-Bag Lunches at Redfin
A startup can be its own strange little place, which is good if you’re a little lonely or intense or if you need a sense of purpose and belonging. But working at Redfin can also be like trying to watch a swim meet while splashing around in your own end of the pool; many of [...]
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Why CEOs Are So Boring
Henry James once wrote that a novelist has only one obligation, “to be interesting.”
I’ve sometimes approached being a CEO in the same way, straining when in public to compare Redfin to a penguin devoured by a leopard seal, a public-square streaker, a second-tier basketball player. I said what I really felt, but I also tried to [...]
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How to Be
I just had lunch with a retired airline CEO, as part of a personal-training program Madrona’s Paul Goodrich put together to ensure Redfin folks learn how to build our little company into a juggernaut. It was fantastic.
Half an hour before the lunch, I decided to ride my bicycle home to change into nice pants. We met [...]
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February Newsletter: All Heck Breaks Loose In Real Estate Market
We just sent our monthly newsletter out to 164,625 folks. Read it all here or sign up to get it via email.
Howdy Redfinnians!
For the first time in years lots of pretty houses are coming onto the market, prices posted their seventh small monthly gain, but now demand has suddenly gone missing.
What [...]
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Redfin Expands to Oregon, First of Nine States That Outlaw Our Business Model
Spread the word! Redfin?s finally expanding to Portland, and offering search for most of Western Oregon, which will increase the number of listings on our site by another 8%. We also finally got ?round to offering x-out, which keeps track of all the properties you don?t want to click on again…
As John Cook recently speculated, [...]
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More FHA Changes: Mortgage Insurance Premium
A few days back, we mentioned the slew of recent changes made by the Federal Housing Administration. We covered the changes made to the FHA?s condo approval process in some detail, but there are several other changes that will affect a broader swath of people hoping to finance their home purchase with an FHA loan.
Here?s [...]
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Party with Redfin at Glengarry Glen Ross Next Thursday
The first inspirational speech I ever got in the corporate world concluded when my old friend Kirill Sheynkman removed his gold watch and put it on the desk between us. “This watch,” he said. “Costs more than your car.”
I was moved and terrified by this strange comparison. “But I don’t even have a car,” I [...]
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Buying a Condo With an FHA Loan?
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been a veritable beehive of policy change over the past month. We?ll be discussing the impact of a lot of these changes in the next few days, but we?re starting things off with the changes to the condo approval process that went into effect on February 1st, 2010. Essentially, [...]
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Secret Squirrel and the Redfin Home-buying Class
Last night, we held one of our free home-buying classes, right here in our posh new digs. I?m in the uniquely weird position of working on the creation of a home-buying guide while simultaneously making my first foray into the home-buying experience, which feels a bit like trying to write a guidebook to Paris while [...]
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And The Top Redfin Blogger For January Is?
Last November we added trackbacks to the site so that any time a blogger links to Redfin we link back. This means that home-buyers browsing Redfin can quickly see what bloggers are saying about a home giving them even more info about the home, its neighborhood or history. Here’s an example of a listing in [...]
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