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 [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Estately, Findwell, Rain City Guide, real estate search
By The Tim on July 10, 2009
Congratulations to Redfin, who announced today that they are officially profitable: The Naked Truth is Out: Redfin is Profitable
Redfin was profitable last month, all while maintaining our 97% customer satisfaction. The business has been growing by leaps and bounds, in part because the real estate market has had a small rally this summer, but in [...]
Posted in News | Tagged discount brokers, good news everyone, real estate search, Redfin
By The Tim on May 10, 2009
Please vote in this poll using the sidebar.
This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 05.16.2009.
Posted in Polls | Tagged Estately, Polls, real estate search, Redfin
By The Tim on December 29, 2008
I’m happy to announce that Seattle Bubble now sports a new and improved sidebar inventory tracker, thanks to Galen Ward of Estately.com.
A few months ago our most reliable source for the hourly inventory tracker went offline, leaving us with two far less dependable sources for the inventory data. Since then the sidebar inventory tracker [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged Estately, inventory, real estate search
By The Tim on November 21, 2008
Locally-based real estate search site Estately kicked their technology up another notch yesterday, with the addition of past home sales information to every listing, as well as the expansion into Chicago and Long Island, New York.
I’ve been consistently impressed with how much Estately founder Galen Ward has been able to do on a shoestring budget [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Estately, real estate search, Redfin

By The Tim on November 6, 2008
For those of you that have been waiting for Redfin to add the NWMLS Cumulative Days on Market to the information displayed on listings, your wait is over.
Redfin unveiled a bunch of new features today. Here’s a list of what I’ve noticed so far:
Cumulative Days on Market displayed
property type now broken down into:
House
Condo
Townhouse
Multi-family
Land
Other
search filters [...]
Posted in News | Tagged blogging, real estate search, Redfin
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