Matt's Thoughts on Real Estate

To round out the west coast markets Redfin is in we'd like to expand to Portland this year. Unfortuantely we've hit a snag and are having a hard time finding someone who could run Portland for us. Normally posting the job on our site and on craigslist nets us a good number of qualified candidates...

With all the talk of Redfin recently I thought ActiveRainers might be interested in this post from a Seattle agent on Rain City Guide, Is Your Open House In The NWMLS For ALL To See?. In the post Courtney talks about the Redfin buyers she sees at her open houses: Redfin buyers seem to almost alwa...

It's been a great week at Redfin! First we broke into the Hitwise top 20 list of real estate sites: This has been a long time coming! And it's great that we're able to do it being in only 7 metro areas (Seattle, Bay Area, LA, DC, Chicago, Boston, NY). Once we expand to few more cities (Atlanta, P...

This past weekend I attended my first open house where the tables were turned and I was the one working the open house instead of attending. I'm not a licensed agent so I shadowed Chelsea, one of our associate agents, as she hosted 431 Bowdoin Pl in Fremont. It's a charming Tudor that looks small...