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Video: This basketball legend loves Redfin

Redfin is gearing up to go public on Friday, but the Seattle tech-powered residential real estate brokerage already has one… Read More

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Redfin expected to go public next week in 1st Seattle-area tech IPO of 2017

Redfin is expected to go public Friday, July 28, according to Nasdaq.  The Seattle-based company, which describes itself as a… Read More

Working Geek: Redfin VP of Engineering Jennifer Chao relieves stress by playing hooky every few weeks

Jennifer Chao has an unconventional strategy for relieving stress from her demanding job as Redfin’s vice president of engineering. Taking… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Redfin expands engineering and data teams as it prepares to go public

Seattle-based real estate company Redfin made waves a few weeks ago when it filed for an initial public offering, possibly… Read More

Redfin real estate

Tech-powered residential real estate firm Redfin sets IPO terms at $12 to $14 per share

Redfin is inching closer to its proposed initial public offering, with the so-called “technology-powered residential real estate brokerage” setting terms… Read More

Campaign to diversify startup boards launched by Redfin, Madrona, Pioneer Square Labs and others

Real estate technology company Redfin and several prominent tech investment firms will encourage startups in their portfolios to recruit an… Read More

Redfin house

Key question in Redfin IPO: Will it be valued as a tech company or a real estate brokerage?

Is Redfin a real estate brokerage or a tech company? That’s the key question as the Seattle company — originally… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: Everything we know about Microsoft’s layoffs and Redfin’s IPO announcement

It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First… Read More

Glenn Kelman

Redfin enters ‘peculiar’ Manhattan real estate market in New York City as it preps to go public

As Redfin prepares to go public, it is making in-roads in the nation’s most unique and expensive real estate market:… Read More

Why is Redfin running its site from a single data center without a backup facility?

Redfin surprised a few people Friday afternoon when it filed for an initial public offering, but inside the standard boilerplate… Read More

Redfin real estate

Redfin testing ‘Redfin Now’ service that lets it buy and resell homes directly with customers

In Redfin’s IPO filing that posted Friday, the company revealed a new service it is testing called Redfin Now that… Read More

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Redfin files for IPO as online real estate company seeks to raise up to $100M

Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin filed for an initial public offering on Friday with U.S. regulators and will seek to… Read More

Redfin sale sign

Redfin data shows more homebuyers making offers without seeing property in person

The hot housing markets in Seattle and others like it across the U.S. are leading more homebuyers to bypass the… Read More

Glenn Kelman

Redfin takes #1 spot in GeekWire 200, topping DocuSign for first time

There are great rivalries — Yankees and Red Sox, Duke and North Carolina, Amazon and Walmart, Uber and Lyft —… Read More

Seattle

Big demand, little supply: Seattle’s hot housing market gets hotter with highest price gains in U.S.

Hopeful home buyers in the Seattle area are up against the toughest purchasing prospects in the country as the market again posted… Read More

Redfin house

Redfin report tracks which cities people want to flee (Bay Area) and where they want to stay (Seattle)

An inaugural quarterly report from Seattle-based online real estate company Redfin takes a look at the migration patterns of people… Read More

Former Redfin employees aim to simplify the mortgage process with new startup: Approved

Technology has made finding a home a lot easier, with a variety of services such as Zillow, Redfin and many… Read More

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Redfin CTO Bridget Frey has a message for managers who want to build more diverse teams

When Bridget Frey joined Redfin, she had the advantage of an existing relationship with the CEO, Glenn Kelman. The friendship… Read More

There’s no avoiding it: Intense dodgeball tourney is a hit at the GeekWire Bash

Seattle has become known as one of the top tech hubs in the country, but it was a company from… Read More

Redfin listing

Redfin takes shot across bow of cross-town rival Zillow, claims most accurate home-value feature

Updated below with Zillow comment. The battle between online real estate companies and which does a better job of calculating… Read More

Redfin real estate

Redfin moves into mortgages, will issue home loans in latest bid to upend real estate industry

Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate brokerage, announced the launch of Redfin Mortgage on Thursday in an effort to service its customers from… Read More

Tech Moves: New additions to Redfin’s board; DocuSign adds former Microsoft exec as SVP of engineering; and more

Seattle real estate brokerage Redfin announced two additions to its board of directors today: Julie Bornstein, COO of San Francisco-based… Read More

Redfin listing

Redfin trying to lure Seattle home sellers with new 1 percent listing fee

Home sellers who list with a Redfin agent in the Seattle metro area are going to gain access to a… Read More

Glenn Kelman

Redfin CEO reveals data on employee race, ethnicity and gender, says ‘there is much more to do’

Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Seattle-based Redfin, posted a revealing look Tuesday at the real estate company’s own data related… Read More

Bridget Frey of Redfin

Geek of the Week: Redfin CTO Bridget Frey aims to make buying or selling a home easier through technology

When Bridget Frey moved from Boston to Seattle in 2008, the U.S. was in the midst of a major recession.… Read More

Redfin says those crazy home bidding wars in Seattle may slow — but it’s still a seller’s market

  Redfin has a message for homebuyers in its hometown of Seattle: Don’t give up yet. Related: Redfin offers glimmer… Read More

Walk Score

Redfin puts a dollar figure on walkability, analyzing how much one Walk Score point affects home prices

Being able to walk away from your home and easily access amenities nearby adds value to that home, Redfin reports… Read More

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Redfin offers glimmer of hope for Seattle home buyers as new listings finally hit double-digit growth in June

In a blink-and-you-could-miss-it moment for Seattle real estate, now might be the right time to shop for a home, according… Read More

Glenn Kelman

Report: Redfin projects $200M in revenue this year, CEO Glenn Kelman further defends hiring approach

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman provides new insight into the growth of the Seattle-based online real estate company in a new report… Read More

Redfin Opportunity Score

Redfin’s new Opportunity Score rates housing based on available jobs reachable without car

Redfin has added a new tool to its arsenal aimed at helping home buyers and renters assess a potential neighborhood. Opportunity… Read More

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