By The Tim on March 31, 2013
This poll was active 03.31.2013 through 04.06.2013
Posted in Polls | Tagged Collections, photos, Polls, Redfin
By The Tim on March 21, 2013
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Redfin released February housing market data last week, so let’s take a look at the rate at which new listings are going under contract in two weeks or less in the Seattle area, compared to San Francisco and the national rate: I was concerned when this number [...]
Posted in Features, Statistics | Tagged fast-offers, pending, Redfin
By The Tim on February 20, 2013
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin. Let’s take a brief follow-up look at new listings. When we checked in two weeks into the new year, new listings in the Seattle area were down 25% from 2012. The data from this post is largely pulled out of a larger-scale analysis I did at work [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged inventory, new listings, Redfin
By The Tim on February 12, 2013
Full disclosure: The Tim is employed by Redfin and WaLaw Realty is a Seattle Bubble advertiser. A reader wrote in with the following question about real estate agent commissions: In the near future my wife and I are going to need to sell our respective homes and then buy a new home. This means a [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged 500 Realty, commission, discount brokers, Findwell, reader_question, Redfin, WaLaw
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
