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 September 14, 2012
Longtime P-I real estate reporter Aubrey Cohen certainly knows how to get my attention. Here’s a story he ran on their site yesterday: Report finds buying a home way cheaper than renting Buying a home is way cheaper than renting in all 100 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, including Seattle, according to a new [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged buy-vs-rent, Cohen, Seattle_PI, Trulia
By The Tim on October 9, 2010
Notice anything… off about this infographic attached to Trulia’s Rent vs. Buy comparison? Feel free to download the original pdf from Trulia, just to make sure I’m not making this up.
Posted in Humor | Tagged fail, infographic, Trulia
By The Tim on January 30, 2008
A couple of national outlets have had interesting stories about Redfin in the last few days. Since you’re not likely to read about it in the “we pretend Redfin doesn’t exist” local agent blogs, I thought I’d highlight them here. First up is a New York Times story that claims the bursting of the real [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Forbes, New York Times, real_estate_professionals, Redfin, Trulia, Zillow
