By The Tim on December 19, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Redfin (my employer) just launched a fun new feature today: Redfin Collections. With Collections you can curate publicly-visible galleries of listing photos from nearly all of Redfin’s markets across the country. Although I was not at all connected to the team that developed this feature, as an [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged photos, real estate search, Redfin, shameless plug
By The Tim on October 29, 2012
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Earlier this month, Redfin released the results of an in-depth study of real estate listing accuracy across various websites, including Redfin, Windermere, Zillow, and Trulia. The results will not surprise anyone who has attempted to do any serious home searching on these sites, but I still wanted [...]
Posted in National, News | Tagged accuracy, real estate search, Redfin, Trulia, Windermere, Zillow
By The Tim on July 26, 2012
I’ll be in San Francisco today and Friday for Redfin’s semiannual Hackathon, an intense coding marathon where our crack team of software developers come together from Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin to crank out incredible experimental features in mere hours. The basic format has ten teams of four to six developers competing to produce the [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged real estate search, Redfin
By The Tim on April 8, 2012
This poll was active 04.08.2012 through 04.14.2012
Posted in Polls | Tagged Polls, real estate search
By The Tim on August 23, 2010
I received a few questions in the comments and via email last week about how to find bank-owned homes, so I thought I’d put together a little guide. For the purposes of this post, we’ll consider foreclosures in three stages: Pre-Foreclosure, Unlisted Bank-Owned, and On-Market Bank-Owned. Pre-Foreclosure A home in pre-foreclosure is one where the [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged foreclosures, Google, how-to, public records, real estate search, REO
By The Tim on August 5, 2009
Couple of interesting developments in local real estate search this week. First up, local discount brokerage Findwell (a Seattle Bubble advertiser) announced today that they are partnering with Estately to provide a more user-friendly search experience. Sounds like it should be a good match for both parties. A good search tool was the one (big) [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Estately, Findwell, Rain City Guide, real estate search
