ClimateCheck data added to Redfin listings
TRD Staff | August 04, 2021 07:00AM
The real estate industry has made another gesture to climate change, with Redfin adding metrics to assess risk on its home listings. Climate data company ClimateCheck will provide a risk ranking for Redfin listings...
ClimateCheck data added to Redfin listings
Bidding wars for homes decline across United States
TRD Staff | July 14, 2021 01:04PM
Home buyers can take a breath. Maybe not a deep one, but a breath: Bidding wars on properties across...
Bidding wars for homes decline across United States
Institutional buyers are flooding single-family market
TRD Staff | May 21, 2021 12:15PM
UPDATED, May 24 2021, 12:00 p.m.: Institutional buyers are in spending mode. Investors dropped a record $77 billion on...
Institutional buyers are flooding single-family market
Pocket listings exclude minority homebuyers, Redfin CEO says
By Cordilia James | May 06, 2021 03:15PM
Off-market listings have long been a controversial topic, with agents who oppose them claiming they provide an unfair advantage...
Pocket listings exclude minority homebuyers, Redfin CEO says
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This is your home on tech
By E.B. Solomont and Cordilia James | April 21, 2021 03:00PM
Listings With the M&A market for listings services heating up, eyeballs are worth a lot more than they used to be. CoStar bought national search portal Homesnap for $250 million in November, pitting the...
This is your home on tech
March madness: Homes sold faster than ever last month
By Cordilia James | April 07, 2021 07:00AM
The housing market is setting all kinds of records. Fifty-nine percent of homes that went into contract in the...
March madness: Homes sold faster than ever last month
Redfin finalizes $608M RentPath acquisition
By Keith Larsen | April 06, 2021 09:33AM
It’s official: Redfin has finalized its purchase of RentPath for $608 million in cash, expanding the brokerage’s presence in the rental market. The acquisition gives Redfin control of RentPath’s subsidiaries, including Apartment Guide, Rentals.com...
Redfin finalizes $608M RentPath acquisition
Home sale prices near 100% of asking prices
TRD Staff | March 09, 2021 07:00AM
The housing market is becoming even more competitive. The sale-to-list price ratio, which measures how close homes sell to their asking price, was 99.6 percent during the four-week period ending Feb. 28. That’s 1.6...
Home sale prices near 100% of asking prices
Redfin revenue grows as it races to hire more agents
By E.B. Solomont | February 25, 2021 11:15AM
The hot housing market has crowned another winner: Redfin. The discount brokerage reported revenue of $866.1 million in 2020,...
Redfin revenue grows as it races to hire more agents
Nearly half of home sellers overpaid their broker fees in 2020
By Erin Hudson | February 25, 2021 09:00AM
In a historically tight housing market, people are falling over themselves to purchase homes — so why are nearly...
Nearly half of home sellers overpaid their broker fees in 2020