Matt Goyer’s Real Estate Blog

Three weeks ago we doubled in size. Today we’re more than tripling in size by expanding into Southern California (press release.) We also made a few tweaks to the user experience. The house icons are now smaller, parcels appear at a higher zoom level (except for IE6 users — please upgrade to either FF2 or IE7) and we improved the initial load time performance through aggressive .JS caching and GZIPing of content. We also fixed a bunch of other small bugs with the map experience. Yes, it has been a very busy January.

Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C. here we come :).

From around the web:

• Redfin Blog, Redfin, Cured of Epileptic Fits and Other Ticks, Enters the Great Southland Empire:
  

  As usual, they call us discounters, when we’re not offering a discount on a traditional service, we’re offering an online service at a different price, with a different business model and 95+% customer satisfaction. Amazon.com is not a discount bookstore. Redfin.com’s goal is to be different and better too, not cheaper.

• LA Times, Web real estate firms shake up home economics
• John Cook’s Venture Blog, Redfin expands to LA
• San Diego Home Blog, Redfin Revisited: Steve does not give our agents much credit.
• 3 Oceans, Redfin Attacks SoCal’s INTx’ers
• OC Register Blog, New brokerage offers commission rebates
• Luxury Home Digest, Redfin Security Issues:
  

  There are many new real estate models on the horizon, and Redfin is just one of the new rebaters. I don’t have a problem with the monetary side, but I do have an issue with a buyer’s agent who plays the role of a gray ghost and is physically absent from the transaction. Could the reason be that it isn’t “economically feasible?”

• On 10 video, Redfin: The Online Real Estate Company
• Future of Real Estate Marketing, Redfin hits the beach
• Seattle Times blog, Redfin goes SoCal
• Seattle PI, Online real estate broker Redfin expanding service
• Bloodhound Blog’s Greg Swann, Glenn Kelman on Redfin.com’s move into Southern California: “I’ve never had to think so hard in an interview in my life”
• 10 News, video clip

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