Redfin Direct is actually a return to form for Redfin.
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Redfin, Zillow — Redfin and Zillow were initiated with "buy" ratings at SunTrust.
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Taxes: $7,874 (estimated) Contact: Greg Goodell, Redfin Corporation, 760-576-1700; redfin.
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Redfin also makes money from commissions when customers make an offer on homes on Redfin.
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Redfin – Redfin matched Street forecasts with a quarterly loss of 44 cents per share, with revenue topping estimates.
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Redfin – Redfin edged estimates by a penny a share, with adjusted quarterly profit of 12 cents per share.
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The Redfin program, Redfin Direct, is an effort to bring the approach to the other side of the transaction.
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Redfin gives its agents salaries, health benefits, 2166(k) contributions and, for the most productive ones, Redfin stock, none of which is standard for contractors.
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Redfin (RDFN) – Redfin reported a smaller-than-expected loss for its fourth quarter and the real estate website operator's revenue came in ahead of estimates.
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We also believe that the Company is beginning to lay the groundwork for a more e-commerce type offering (Redfin Direct, Redfin Now, packaged ancillary services, etc.).
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Redfin – Redfin earned six cents per share for its latest quarter, equaling Street forecasts, while the online real estate services company saw revenue essentially in line as well.
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Redfin— Shares of online real-estate company Redfin jumped more than 7% after Stephens upgraded the stock to overweight from underweight and raised its target price to $23 from $18.
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Redfin is the next-generation real estate brokerage, with agents across the U.S. For more information about working with a Redfin agent to buy or sell a home, visit us.
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Redfin, a real estate brokerage, saw a 494% increase in requests for agent-led video home tours two weeks ago and at the beginning of last week 18.9% of tour requests from Redfin.
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Redfin operates in more than 85 major U.S. metropolitan markets.
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Founded in 2004, Redfin raised over $167 million in funding.
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This post from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman appeared originally on LinkedIn.
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According to public property records available through real estate website Redfin.
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Redfin raised over $167 million in equity funding over the years.
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It's looking like Redfin may be the only one to debut.
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Redfin, the popular real estate listings site, has filed for IPO.
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Redfin isn't the first Seattle-based real estate site to IPO.
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Still, Mr. Kelman found investors willing to be patient with Redfin.
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Regionally, Denver is the nation's fastest sales market, according to Redfin.
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COST $13,212 a year BROKERS Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty; Redfin
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Redfin performs the same essential steps as a conventional buyer's agent.
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And the Redfin model depends on customers to take more initiative.
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Kelman helped found Plumtree Software in 2002 before coming to Redfin.
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The article doesn't make the case that Redfin will conquer the world.
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One night she finally acknowledged that Redfin, like any business, might fail.
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He took a course with Redfin, which helped him learn the craft.
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Opendoor competitors, like Zillow and Redfin, are also expanding real estate services.
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Chelsea Goyer, then a Redfin real estate agent, said the tactic worked.
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Redfin has been in the mortgage and title business for several years.
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And for them, the online realtor Redfin can be a good option.
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But in recent years, Redfin has become more like a conventional realtor.
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Before joining Redfin, Kelman was the co-founder of Plumtree Software, Inc.
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At the beginning of last week, 18.9% of tour requests from Redfin.
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Redfin found 47 colleges where mortgages offer better rates than dorm rooms.
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Based in Seattle, Redfin launched its home-buying services in February 2006.
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Redfin also gave a current-quarter revenue forecast largely above Street forecasts.
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"As mortgage rates have fallen this month, Redfin has seen upticks in the number of people wanting to talk with our agents about buying homes and the number going on home tours," said Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather.
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A Redfin press release said that RE/MAX withdrew from the partnership as a result of Redfin rolling out its Direct service, which allows Redfin's sellers to sell to unrepresented buyers and save on buyer side commission fees.
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Unlike Zillow, Redfin is a real estate brokerage, employing agents to buy and sell homes for clients, which means that its chief executive, Glenn Kelman, regularly hears from Redfin agents who either love its estimating tool or despise it.
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Many nights in 2009 and 2010, I'd become convinced that Redfin would fail.
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Redfin, a real estate brokerage, also recently reported a drop in new listings.
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At one point, Redfin experimented with sending ML-generated recommendations to its users.
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Redfin recorded a 31 percent annual jump in median sale prices in February.
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Home buyer demand surged in April, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Redfin shares closed Thursday at $23.20, still healthily above its $15 IPO price.
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Redfin, the real estate site based in Seattle, has finally raised its IPO.
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Others have taken their companies public (think Redfin, Coupa and Cloudera, among others).
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The Seattle-based brokerage Redfin also reported a drastic drop in consumer interest.
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Redfin's Title Forward launched in 2012, and Redfin Mortgage started in January 2017.
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Redfin sold homes at a loss; others held on, hoping for a rebound.
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"This could have a chilling affect," said Nela Richardson, chief economist for Redfin.
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Redfin also gave a current quarter revenue forecast largely above Wall Street forecasts.
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"Autumn is a tricky time," said Chicago Redfin real estate agent Michael Linden.
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Zillow launched its iBuyer business, Zillow Offers, in April 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona, the home of the iBuying phenomenon and real estate brokerage Redfin launched its Redfin Now program in January 2017 in the Inland Empire region of southern California.
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The sale of the 5,23-square-foot house for $1,499,000 is listed on Redfin.
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This list comes via analysis from real estate company Redfin, using 2014 census data.
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Redfin estimates that Seattle's roughly 2500,2968.5 homes are worth a total of $182.9 billion.
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Homes in April sold the fastest since Redfin began tracking the market in 2010.
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This was a long time coming for Redfin, which got its start in 228.1.
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It would have been a cinch for Redfin to hire its agents as contractors.
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Californians looking elsewhere are already among the most popular searches on the Redfin website.
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Just 21 percent of offers written by Redfin, a real estate brokerage, saw competing bids.
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So over the past decade, Redfin has hired more agents and dramatically raised its fees.
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He added that the action in the stock of online real estate broker Redfin Corp.
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Nearly 78 percent of offers written by Redfin in Seattle were involved in bidding wars.
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PopSQL says its product has already found customers in companies like Instacart, Redfin, and DoorDash.
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Redfin reports that the Kennedy estate has been on and off the market since 2013.
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Avicii bought the house in 2013 for $15.5 million, according to real estate website Redfin.
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Redfin, an Internet-enabled residential real estate brokerage, has raised $138 million in its IPO.
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This is the fastest February market Redfin has recorded since it began tracking in 2010.
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Redfin makes money by taking a cut of the home sales generated by its site.
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Redfin tracks prices in 174 local markets and calculated the median home price at $16.5,000.
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Redfin analysts based their findings on a sample of 100,000 homes that sold in 2017.
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A monthly survey from Redfin found fewer potential buyers requesting home tours or making offers.
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Redfin makes money by taking a cut of the home sales facilitated by its site.
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This was when they began originating and underwriting loans through a new program, Redfin Mortgage.
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Hiring and training Redfin agents has been expensive and slow compared with recruiting agent-contractors.
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The median home sale price on the Venetian Islands is $3.01 million, according to Redfin.
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But Redfin uses a team-based approach where different functions are performed by different agents.
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I had a great experience with Redfin and loved saving 2% on the sale price.
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More homeowners are staying longer, according to real estate brokerage Redfin, which analyzed Census data.
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Trulia had 80 listings with prices in crypto in January 2018 while Redfin numbered some 134.
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Trupanion and Redfin have teamed up to create a list of America's most cat-friendly cities.
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"The only factor holding back sales this spring is supply," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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Redfin measures demand by looking at the number of customers requesting home tours and writing offers.
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Zillow, Redfin, and other "i-buyers" are closing on homes within a week of the application.
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Redfin also found homes listed Thursday were more likely to sell within 90 to 180 days.
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The star bought the house in 2013 for $15.5 million, according to real estate website Redfin.
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In the past, Redfin has rebated as much as half of that commission back to customers.
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In the report, Redfin emphasises that the US housing market had a strong start to 2020.
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Redfin emails me probably once a month with its estimate of what my house is worth.
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Inventories are now at near-record lows and bidding wars are increasing again, according to Redfin.
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Redfin is a nationwide brokerage that charges a 1% listing fee instead of the typical 3%.
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Real-estate website Redfin lists the average home sale price over the last month at $825,000.
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To turn a profit, Redfin had to offer customers much less access to human real estate agents.
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The national median price of homes sold in December was $2000,214, according to real estate company Redfin.
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"For years, the high end was driving sales and price," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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Redfin has grown into a large marketplace for home listings, but it recently began originating mortgages, too.
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And that includes listing a home on just the right day, which, according to Redfin, is Thursday.
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Counties in Denver, New York City, Omaha, Austin, Dallas, San Francisco and St. Louis, according to Redfin.
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"The market is missing its moment because of too-low inventory," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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Most of the home's structure has been left untouched, according to Redfin real-estate agent Robert Giambalvo.
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Zillow, Redfin, and other so-called iBuyers are closing on homes within a week of the application.
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The first quarter of this year was when they began originating and underwriting loans through Redfin Mortgage.
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Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate site, had a great first couple days on the stock market.
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For Redfin, a salary and benefits are catalysts for changing how agents like Karlyn Goetz usually operate.
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After the real estate recession of 2008 hit, Redfin laid off 20 percent of its work force.
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Redfin recorded a 2½-month supply of remaining homes for sale at the end of the month.
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A real estate agent, and sites like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin, can help you with the process.
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Redfin started as a web-based intermediary using online maps to point prospective buyers to available homes.
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A salaried Redfin agent will show you houses, write offers, and negotiate with sellers on your behalf.
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In September, 11% of offers written by Redfin, a national real estate brokerage, faced a bidding war.
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The ranking is based on data from Bike Score, a tool operated by a Redfin-owned company.
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But Los Angeles, where Zillow, Redfin and Opendoor all launched in 2019, is the antithesis of Phoenix.
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"This option can change real estate in the agents flavor," Quinn Hawkins, head of Redfin Now said.
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While Redfin is an online brokerage, Kelman has long seen the company as a burgeoning technology play.
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Here are the top seven cities where successful home-buyers purchased properties that way, according to Redfin.
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Redfin generated a loss of $22.5 million on $267.2 million of revenue in 2016, the filing said.
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Compass and Redfin are re-imagining what it means to be a modern, tech-enabled brokerage firm.
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Redfin, which unveiled its IPO filing on Friday, is likely to debut towards the end of the month.
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A monthly demand index from Redfin jumped to the highest level since January 2013, when the index began.
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Redfin defines a home as luxury if its sale price is among the top 5 percent of values.
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Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told the Times that the program will expand to the rest of the country.
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The home listing went viral on social media within hours of showing up on real estate site Redfin.
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"After almost a decade of under-supplied housing stock, competition is fierce," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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Approved CEO Andy Taylor and CTO Navtej Sadhal are both Redfin alums, so they know this business well.
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A housing demand index from real estate brokerage Redfin fell 17 percent in June from a year ago.
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However, the real improvement came when Redfin asked its agents to review recommendations before they were sent out.
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Demand from homebuyers fell 14 percent in March from February, according to Redfin, a national real estate brokerage.
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Just 17 percent of offers written by Redfin involved bidding wars, down from 72 percent a year earlier.
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The median price of a home sold in May rose 3.6% from a year earlier, according to Redfin.
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A real estate agent, and sites like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin, can help you with the search process.
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The timing of the filing implies that Redfin is likely to debut in late July or early August.
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Redfin makes money by taking a 1 to 1.5 percent commission off home sales facilitated by their site.
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WestRiver founder Erik Anderson, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman and former Microsoft exec Charlotte Guyman are joining the Pro.
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That decision over a decade ago made Mr. Kelman and his company, Redfin, iconoclasts in the technology world.
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It's the first property that's listed for sale where the seller only wants cryptocurrency, according to Redfin. (CNBC)
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"There's an e-commerce mentality sinking into the American consciousness," said Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of Redfin.
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That's according to real estate brokerage Redfin, which determined the top 903 most "bikeable" U.S. cities for 2020.
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In Salt Lake City and Houston, for example, it went from 15 years to 23 years, per Redfin.
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The latter would rather have a conversation about home values without the Redfin estimator having colored clients' expectations.
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Some of its holdings, like Zillow and Redfin, are big winners in the real estate sector this year.
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"A lot of consumers' first touch point of the housing market is on Zillow or Redfin," said Pettee.
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Redfin has rallied 25% this year alone and shares of Realogy are up more than 230% in 250.
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Shares of online real estate broker Redfin hit the public market on Friday in a $138.5 million IPO.
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Housing demand fell 9.6 percent in June, compared with June 2017, according to a monthly index from Redfin.
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Redfin implemented a sale price cap of $294,000 (which is the median home price across all of Redfin's markets).
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New listings in April fell 1.1 percent from a year ago, according to Redfin, a national real estate brokerage.
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Other companies including Opendoor, Offerpad, Redfin, and Knock are also expanding the so-called instant buyer, or "iBuyer," market.
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He could also afford the Washington, D.C.'s 2000,263 homes, worth a total of $261.3 billion, according to Redfin.
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They are not pricing their homes as aggressively as they did last fall, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
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Redfin, Compass and Zillow are part of a long list of companies looking to change the real estate search.
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"I think moving forward, the housing market is showing signs of strength," said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin.
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Redfin said it saw broad-based market share gains during the quarter amid increasing sales across all its businesses.
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Zillow is more than three times the size of Redfin by revenue and is valued at about $9 billion.
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Curbed, for example, makes heavy use of reports from companies like Zillow and Redfin to cover real estate trends.
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Redfin has sophisticated algorithms that figure out the kinds of homes visitors to its site will be interested in.
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The average home sold in May went under contract in just 34 days, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
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A typical listing sold in 36 days in April 2018, six fewer than in April 2017, according to Redfin.
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As of March 4, 713 Kew Gardens Hills listings were featured on the Redfin website, culled from multiple sources.
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Crissy Dyer, a Redfin agent in Washington, D.C., has recently helped two families purchase homes sight unseen from overseas.
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"We expect price pressure to remain pretty strong well into the fall," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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The number of homes for sale in 2020 will hit an all-time low, real estate company Redfin projects.
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I recently sold a home using Redfin and saved at least two percent in commissions relative to traditional brokers.
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According to the real estate website Redfin, homes now on the market there range from $470,000 and $1.4 million.
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Listings at or above $1 million fell 9.4 percent compared with the same period last year, according to Redfin.
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Redfin says more people preparing for weekend open houses start looking on Thursday and are already out shopping by Saturday.
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Separate research from Redfin found that luxury properties nationwide under-performed the broader housing market for the eighth consecutive quarter.
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It's currently off the market but estimates by Zillow and Redfin value it at $6 million and $10 million, respectively.
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They rarely, however, lead to a higher price or a quicker sale, according to officials at real estate brokerage Redfin.
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The inventory of homes for sale fell in June annually, the first such drop in 10 months, according to Redfin.
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This gives Redfin a market cap of $22011 billion, well above its last private round, which was about $770 million.
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What's next: A Redfin analysis found these buyers are leaving too-hot-to-touch markets, including San Francisco and Seattle.
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Redfin is trying out a similar approach for buyers, moving toward a future where house hunters can buy entirely online.
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As a result, 1 in 4 homes sold above their list price, which is the highest percentage Redfin has recorded.
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With $1.6 billion in assets under management, Madrona is known for investments in Seattle bigwigs like Smartsheet, Rover and Redfin.
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Luxury prices in Washington, D.C., have been softening, and were down 4 percent in the second quarter, according to Redfin.
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A demand index from Redfin, a real estate brokerage, fell in November, after rising through much of the early fall.
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According to analysis conducted for USA TODAY by online real estate firm Redfin, that trend has picked up since 232.
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Zillow follows action from other real estate startups such as Opendoor and Redfin to temporarily pause making offers on homes.
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Redfin, a real estate brokerage, saw a 494% increase in requests for agent-led video home tours two weeks ago.
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Save money on your real estate agent: We bought the home using a traditional agent but sold it through Redfin.
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"Prices were growing too fast for what buyers were willing to pay," said Taylor Marr, a senior economist at RedFin.
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Redfin has now updated its forecast and is predicting the 30-year mortgage rate will pass the 4 percent threshold.
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As reported by the residential real estate company Redfin in March, the average gain in 2015 was $337,243 per flip.
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"We've seen housing tenure increase the past few years, and turnover is low relative to historical averages," said Richardson of Redfin.
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Boston, New York and Philadelphia saw year-over-year declines in new listings of more than 10 percent, according to Redfin.
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Real estate site Redfin recently unveiled its IPO filing, suggesting that the company is looking to go public later this month.
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Top performers for the year included streaming media device maker Roku, analytics provider Alteryx and tech-enabled real estate company Redfin.
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Redfin defines a home as luxury if it is among the top 5 percent most-expensive homes sold in a city.
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The aim is to ensure that Seattle remains America's second-most economically integrated city (as defined by RedFin, a data provider).
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"Even with surging home prices, listings were still down in January from a year ago," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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Homebuyer demand rose sharply in February from a year ago, according to a monthly survey by Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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The home, built in 1993, also features a three-car garage, granite countertops and upgraded baths, according to a Redfin listing.
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Which explains the huge influx of cash going to companies the industry calls "iBuyers," such as RedFin, Zillow, Opendoor and OfferPad.
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Redfin defines a home as luxury if it is among the top 5 percent most-expensive homes sold in each city.
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Redfin found that a home gets five times more views on the first day it is listed than on subsequent days.
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"The housing market can't take the shock of a natural event," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at real estate company Redfin.
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In a fairy-tale version of the Redfin story, the company's bet on employees would have resulted in industry-rattling success.
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Of the homes that sold in May, 27.6 percent went above their list price — another record in the markets Redfin tracks.
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Just more than 10% of offers written by Redfin in August faced a bidding war, according to the brokerage's monthly survey.
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Redfin's press release said that "RE/MAX became concerned that Redfin Direct would undermine the standing of North American buyers' agents."
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According to Redfin, sales of homes priced at $103 million or more fell 5% in the U.S. in the second quarter.
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Ms. Musiker, 33, is a senior manager of communications in the New York office of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage.
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Real estate company Redfin matched earnings expectations and just beat revenue estimates, and its stock price rose 3.7 percent after hours.
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Chicago and Atlanta both saw demand gains on the Redfin index, despite sizable drops in the supply of homes for sale.
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In fact, Redfin, a real estate brokerage, reported 35 percent more requests for home tours in July, compared with July 2016.
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One thing that started to change my mind was reporting on (and then buying a house using) the real estate startup Redfin.
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In its early years, Redfin seemed like exactly the kind of disruptive startup Andreessen and Kelly expected to transform the conventional economy.
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Back then, Redfin was charging homebuyers about a third of what a conventional real estate agent would charge for buying a house.
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"The Valley is going to become an idea instead of a place," predicts Glenn Kelman, the boss of Redfin, a property company.
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Redfin (RDFN) was rated "outperform" at Wedbush Securities, with a price target of $30 per share for the real estate website operator.
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The only VC-backed tech-ish company to go public in July or August was online brokerage Redfin, which has performed well.
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"We've been hearing from our agents in Colorado about significant delays in getting appraisals done," said Alina Ptaszynski, a spokesperson for Redfin.
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By the numbers: Per a new report from Redfin, home prices in Arlington were up nearly 18% year-over-year in April.
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Just 11% of offers written by Redfin agents faced a bidding war in July, down from more than 45% a year ago.
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After-the-bell earnings reports today include Applied Materials (AMAT), Canopy Growth (CGC), CBS (CBS), Chemours (CC), Nvidia (NVDA), and Redfin (RDFN).
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In addition, home sales increased about 9 percent in March compared with the previous year, according to a new report from Redfin.
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That demand dynamic further increased competition in the market, resulting in the fastest average sales pace since Redfin began tracking in 2010.
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Redfin, the real estate brokerage site, saw its shares tumble about 7 percent in after-hours trading, shortly after sharing its earnings.
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The Los Angeles home where Charles Manson's followersThe house is an "awesome LA home," Redfin real-estate agent Robert told Business Insider.
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An analysis by Redfin found the 10 housing markets that are at the greatest risk of a downturn in the next recession.
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An analysis by Redfin found the 10 housing markets that are the least likely to see a downturn in the next recession.
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About 35% of offers in San Francisco faced competition, according to Redfin, although that is still down from 58% in October 2018.
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Online real estate broker Redfin is preparing to sell shares to the public, filing on Friday to raise up to $100 million.
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"We don't have the margins of some other companies in Silicon Valley," said Scott Nagel, president of real estate operations at Redfin.
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Fund-raising for Redfin was brutal in 2008 during the recession, one of the "near-death experiences" that still trouble Mr. Kelman.
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"Prices are still increasing, but not at the same rate we saw earlier in the spring," said Redfin senior economist Taylor Marr.
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"I look at Zillow, StreetEasy, Redfin, Trulia and Realtor every day in the markets that I have properties in," Mr. Morris said.
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Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate brokerage, is starting a program that lets house hunters bid on properties directly through its website.
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But if you're willing to be patient and are comfortable searching for stuff on the internet, Redfin can save you some money.
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The Seattle-based brokerage, Redfin, is looking to virtual home tours as a way to mitigate the coronavirus' impact on its business.
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The average price of a property costing $11 million or more rose by 225 percent in the first quarter, according to Redfin.
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Redfin specializes in buying and selling homes and uses a mobile app to do tasks like schedule home tours and suggest listings.
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"There is simply just too much demand right now," said Martin Mata, the Redfin agent showing the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home.
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Redfin defines a price drop as a reduction in the list price of more than 1 percent and less than 50 percent.
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Just over 500 listings in the U.S. had a combined price cut of $1 billion in the second quarter, according to RedFin.
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Search activity for those two places coming from New York is way up, based on data from the real estate website Redfin.
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Housing inventory in the large metropolitan markets Redfin tracks was up 5 percent in November annually, the largest supply boost in three years.
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Even if Kelman's original vision had been more successful, Redfin would still have represented only an incremental improvement over conventional real estate services.
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"A lot of people are moving away from the city center into places that feel more like suburbs," said Redfin agent Rebecca Hall.
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Christopher Ziegler, a real estate agent at Redfin, has seen the makeup of Madison change dramatically in a very short period of time.
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It was a great day for Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate site that finally went public after 22015 years as a startup.
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Kelman was proud to point out that Redfin hires real estate agents as full-time W-2 employees, with healthcare and other benefits.
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CPPIB and Hudson Pacific will own 45 pct and 55 pct interests, respectively, in the property which has HBO and Redfin as tenants.
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The median price of a home sold in March surged 8.9 percent compared with March 2017, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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To shake inventory loose for its clients, Redfin will start this month to use letters to reach out to potential sellers in Denver.
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His Redfin agent sent letters to the five people who owned units with four bedrooms, which was the floor plan Mr. Bogenberger wanted.
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Redfin shares fell 5 percent in the extended session after posting mixed quarterly results in its first earnings report as a public company.
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The third-quarter filing also showed Tiger held shares of three recent initial public offerings: Redfin, Roku and Argentine online travel company Despegar.com.
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In its prospectus, Redfin differentiates itself from other tech companies that use only the internet and mobile apps to connect consumers with businesses.
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Ultimately, Kelman says he wants Redfin to be the "Amazon of real estate," where people can go to for all things home ownership.
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But a big factor in calculating the bonuses is the agent ratings provided by Redfin customers after they buy or sell a home.
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By teaming up with LinkedIn, Redfin was able to gather both the job growth and median income for software engineers in each hub.
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Bridget Frey, the chief technology officer at the online real estate company Redfin, said job candidates had increasingly raised ethical questions in interviews.
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"Buyers can only stomach so many price increases until it gets unsustainable," said Daryl Fairweather, the chief economist at the online brokerage Redfin.
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Daryl Fairweather is the chief economist at Redfin, where she leads research into housing trends and the impact of housing on the economy.
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Daryl Fairweather is the chief economist at Redfin, where she leads research into housing trends and the impact of housing on the economy.
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A recent analysis by Redfin found the 10 US metro areas most at risk of a housing downturn in the coronavirus-led recession.
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"The biggest risk, if you're investing in real estate, is that the house doesn't appreciate," said Nela Richardson, the chief economist for Redfin.
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In November, Redfin brought on two new directors, including Julie Bornstein, the chief operating officer of Stitch Fix, an online personal stylist service.
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Meanwhile in earnings, Dell Technologies, American Outdoor Brands, Cloudera, Okta, Redfin, and Barnes & Noble are some of the major companies set to report.
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"Soaring stock markets, still-low mortgage rates, and a steady economy bolstered homebuyers at the start of 2017," said Nela Richardson, Redfin chief economist.
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"There's a booming real estate scene in Vietnam but no good real estate data companies like Zillow or Redfin in the U.S.," he observes.
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"Trade-up buyers seem to be losing their mojo heading into the heart of the spring selling season," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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Homebuyer demand did increase in July from June but was far below levels seen a year ago, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Nationally, just 12% of offers written by Redfin, a real estate brokerage, faced a bidding war in June, down from 52% a year earlier.
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Separately, Opendoor, whose platform helps home buyers bypass brokers, joined hands last month with real estate brokerage Redfin to make cash offers for houses.
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The typical home sold in 2015 was 4 percent farther from a city center than in 2011, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Real estate brokerage Redfin used its search engine to look specifically at which markets had the most people searching for homes outside their city.
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During the first three weeks of March, a mere 16 percent of buyer offers written by real estate brokerage Redfin faced a bidding war.
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This marked the first quarter in which super luxury listings fell year over year since Redfin began reporting on the luxury market in 2014.
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A Redfin study from March of 2019, found that Los Angeles homes with pools sell for around $95,393 more than homes without a pool.
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With a market cap approaching $2 billion, it's more than double than the $770 million valuation that Redfin achieved in its last private round.
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That's one reason why Redfin has not had the impact on the real estate industry that they would have if they had independent contractors.
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"If shortage of inventory is a headwind for housing, mortgage rates are a gentle breeze by comparison," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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Redfin, a national real estate brokerage firm, said its agents had 45 home buyers lined up to purchase homes here when the storm hit.
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A new study by Redfin took a look at home equity appreciation since 2012, the year home prices hit their post-Great Recession nadir.
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A recent report from real estate brokerage Redfin showed that while annual price gains were still high, monthly gains over the summer were flat.
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Still, when asked on Friday, Kelman is confident that Redfin will change the real estate sales model: "We are baby, we are," Kelman said.
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The number of buyers requesting house tours from real estate brokerage Redfin was up nearly 17 percent annually, according to its monthly demand report.
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Redfin also issued a first quarter revenue forecast of between $179 million and $188 million, above the $178.7 million analysts surveyed by FactSet anticipated.
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Older owners are staying put and limiting the inventory of would-be starter homes, based on an analysis by the Redfin economist Daryl Fairweather.
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The New York Times's Nick Wingfield just published a story on Redfin, about how a software company decided to hire a thousand real estate agents.
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But disrupting the education industry will be hard for the same kind of reasons it was hard for Redfin to disrupt the real estate business.
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Separately, Opendoor, whose platform helps home buyers bypass brokers, joined hands last month with real estate brokerage Redfin Corp to make cash offers for houses.
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To date, Redfin has raised more than $167 million from investors ranging from Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tiger Global Management and others.
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Glenn Kelman, chief executive of the online brokerage Redfin, said the combination of low interest rates and tight lending standards was exacerbating existing economic divides.
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The boom in Boise, according to some Redfin agents there, is due to sky-high prices in Denver, the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle.
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As we noted back in May, four of its portfolio companies — Smartsheet, Apptio, Redfin and Impinj —have managed to IPO in the last two years.
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He and his partner bought a home in 22014, using an agent from Redfin, and the process made him decide to get into the business.
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Kelman characterized Redfin as the "Amazon of real estate" because he wants his company to be a one-stop shop for all things real estate.
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Backers: Redfin has raised about $167 million in total funding, and was most recently valued at just over $800 million, according to investment database Pitchbook.
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"Buyers are out touring in droves, ready to pounce on new listings that fit the bill," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin in Washington.
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Sure, there have already been some multi-billion-dollar businesses like Zillow and Redfin that brought online, mobile and data analysis capabilities to the industry.
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After a string of lackluster technology IPOs, tech-focused real estate brokerage Redfin reversed the trend with big first-day gains and sustained aftermarket performance.
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Prices for homes in the top 5 percent of the real estate market fell 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2016, according to Redfin.
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"Three years of low inventory is taking its toll on buyer demand in terms of tour and offer activity," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, who joined in 2006, told CNBC in May that the company's sales were being limited by historically low inventories of homes.
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According to Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson, homebuyers are not as concerned with interest rates as they are with other factors in the housing market.
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Redfin teamed up with LinkedIn to gather the percentage of year-over-year job growth and the median income for software engineers in each hub.
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That contributed to a net outflow of nearly 30,000 people from San Francisco in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
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Last weekend, Ms. Masching, a broker with Redfin in Silicon Valley, got three offers on a $1.2 million home she had listed in Mountain View.
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The survey of more than 2,000 who bought or sold a home in the past year was conducted by SurveyMonkey Audience and commissioned by Redfin.
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Its announcement on Monday comes after rival iBuyer businesses Redfin's Redfin Now program and Softbank-backed startup Opendoor both halted their own purchases last Wednesday.
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More than one-quarter of sellers in early September had reduced their list prices, according to a recent report from Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Redfin (RDFN) reported a smaller than expected loss for its fourth quarter, and the real estate website operator saw revenue come in ahead of estimates.
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San Francisco lost more residents than any other US city in the last quarter of 2017, according to a report from real-estate site Redfin.
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The property reported to be Zuckerberg's is technically owned by a trust, a spokesperson for Redfin, a residential real estate company where 2 Fair Oaks Street is listed, tells CNBC Make It. According to the Redfin listing, the celebrity-adjacent apartment is a "hot home," with a 75 percent chance of selling in three days (though the condo went on the market Dec. 1).
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"If you are in the market now looking, it does add a sense of urgency," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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EquityZen has also helped facilitate the trade of shares of the real estate brokerage Redfin, which is currently in the midst of a pre-IPO roadshow.
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If rates were to hit 5 percent, most homebuyers said they would not change their homebuying plans, according to a survey commissioned by Redfin last month.
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Displaced buyers and renters will compete for a limited number of properties, said Nela Richardson, chief economist for the real estate brokerage and data firm Redfin.
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You may have read "Redfin Predicts the Hottest Neighborhoods of 2017," for example, or one of the many follow-up articles about it from news sources.
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Average annual compensation for Redfin agents is over $20083,000, with agents in exceptionally expensive markets like the San Francisco Bay Area earning more, the company said.
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"To go down this path was contrarian," said James Slavet, a partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that invested in Redfin.
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"It was basically a message that we are at your beck and call," said Ms. Goyer, now a director for partner programs and expansion at Redfin.
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A typical home in the Phoenix area is valued at about $2602,230, below the national median of $22.4,22018, according to Redfin, a national real estate brokerage.
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And Redfin data shows the growth in nationwide home-buying demand down from about 27% in both January and February to 1% as of March 18.
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The inventory of homes for sale was down 22 percent from a year earlier, according to Redfin, and sales were happening at a much faster clip.
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In order to find the 10 markets that will be most vulnerable, Redfin used 13 factors to find the overall risk score of each metro area.
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"Especially with things like Uber, almost all the I.P.O. wealth was going to a couple of people," said Kalena Masching, a Redfin agent in San Jose.
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Yes, we turn to Zillow or Redfin when searching for a home to buy or rent, but what about everything that happens before and after that?
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"You may have fewer people looking to buy, but those who are looking are serious," said Michelle Leader, a Redfin real estate agent in Oklahoma City.
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Real estate brokerage firm Redfin recently found that the supply of homes middle-class families can buy has declined by 86 percent in 49 different metropolitan areas.
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The average price of a 'luxury' home, which Redfin defines as the top 5% in each of the 1,000 cities it tracks, fell 1.6% to $423 million.
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After agents reviewed the recommendations, Redfin was able to use the agents' modifications as additional training data, and the click-through rate on recommended houses rose significantly.
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In the 46 major markets tracked by Redfin, a real estate brokerage and analytics company, inventory fell in June annually for the first time since last September.
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Redfin (RDFN) edged estimates by a penny with adjusted quarterly profit of 12 cents per share, although the residential real estate company's revenue fell below consensus forecasts.
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His agent, Nuno Ribeiro of Redfin, showed him several homes in the New York area when he was in town on business, but nothing fit the bill.
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Of the 120 homes listed through Redfin on which offers were accepted between late March and early May, five were bought with online bids, the company said.
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The Seattle-based brokerage, Redfin, recently added a tool to its app that allows prospective buyers to request agents to lead home tours virtually, through video chat.
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According to a study by Redfin, 18 U.S. real estate markets saw at least 1 percent of homes sold through iBuyers during the third quarter of 2019.
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"The ability to work remotely is a huge factor in people relocating, especially within the same time zone," Portland Redfin agent Megan Warren said in the report.
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In fact, most homeowners are getting multiple offers, and those units move within a week or less of going on sale, Redfin spokeswoman Rachel Musiker told CNBC.
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Redfin speculates that a prevalence of foreign investors could account for the nearly 60 percent of purchasers who bought properties blind in L.A. and other California cities.
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While supply declined overall, Redfin noted a large rise in listings in some of the most supply starved markets, which is where home prices have overheated most.
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Redfin — Redfin's stock climbed 2.63% after the company beat Wall Street's expectation handily for the fourth quarter on both the top and bottom lines according to FactSet.
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Redfin analyzed more than 221 million home sales over the past four years and divided the data into seasons, according to when the homes were first listed.
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Sales of homes listed at $2 million and above fell 16% in the first quarter, the sharpest annual decline since 2010, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Buyer demand in August increased slightly from July, according to real estate brokerage Redfin, which logged more offers written; the supply drain, however, resulted in fewer actual sales.
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The number of homes for sale nationally fell slightly in June compared with a year ago, the first annual decline in inventory since last September, according to Redfin.
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Still, he doesn't seem too worried about it impacting Redfin, because he hopes investors will focus on its market share, rather than the trends in the overall market.
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"How big can Amazon get and stay in Seattle—that's what they're trying to find out," says Glenn Kelman, founder and CEO of online real estate company Redfin.
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Meanwhile, the costliest city that the iconic investor Warren Buffett (worth $82.1 billion) could afford would be Nashville, which Redfin calculated would cost $5003 billion for 210,000 homes.
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As for newly minted billionaire Kylie Jenner, she could afford to buy all of the 1,500 homes in the community of Waikapu, Hawaii for $968.5 million, Redfin calculates.
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Only 67 percent of homes available in 2018 located in metro areas tracked by Redfin were priced affordably for millennials — down from 71 percent of homes in 2017.
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Some of those 134 listings have sold, but as a Redfin spokesman explained it's unclear if cryptocurrency was used for all or a portion of the sale price.
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"Don't listen to relatives, friends, Zillow, or Redfin," a real-estate agent based in Washington state who sells homes that cost an average of $400,000 told Business Insider.
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"I think what's going to hold them back from over-heating is that prices have risen so fast relative to incomes," said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin.
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The supply of newly built homes for sale fell 1% in the second quarter, the first annual drop in six years, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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It's the first property that's listed for sale where the seller only wants cryptocurrency, according to online real-estate broker Redfin, which spotted the listing on its site.
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Thursday is the most popular day for agents to debut new listings, and homes listed on that day apparently sell fastest, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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The number of listings in May was nearly 11 percent lower than in May 2016, leaving just 2.7 months of supply — another record low in the Redfin report.
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Houston's median home price in July was $230,000, unchanged from a year earlier, and the median value of all off-market homes was $190,22014, according to Redfin estimates.
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The real estate site Redfin published a widely read blog post that said the number of teachers in San Francisco who could afford a house was exactly zero.
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Redfin has garnered at least $167 million in equity funding over the years, with Greylock Partners its largest shareholder, with a 12.4 percent stake prior to the IPO.
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On a recent weekday afternoon, Ms. Goetz, a Redfin agent in Seattle, showed off a home in the city's Mount Baker neighborhood that just sold for $1.53 million.
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"I think we just have to acknowledge the entire industry's complicity with what's happening with Facebook," said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, an internet real estate firm.
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For example, back in 43 Redfin was offering a $3,300 rebate to buyers buying a $400,000 house in Washington, DC. Today the rebate has shrunk to just $1,800.
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This requirement may give Zillow, with its long history of collecting data and creating its Zestimate, and Redfin, which has bundled iBuying in with its brokerage, an advantage.
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That's according to a new survey from real estate site Redfin, which analyzed responses from more than 1,500 Americans who purchased a home in the previous 333 months.
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Redfin contributed to the analysis by looking at the number of cat-friendly homes — abodes with high ceilings, litter box space and patios — available in each of the cities.
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Financials: Redfin is not profitable yet, with net losses of of $24.7 million, $30.2 million, and $1673 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively.
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A report this week from real estate brokerage Redfin showed a drop in the number of home tours requested in March and the number of potential buyers writing offers.
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"Chronically low inventory, surging rental rates and high home prices have shifted the demographic makeup of the urban core in many American cities," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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A Redfin agent in San Diego helped a buyer cash out two bitcoin valued then at nearly $7,500 each to cover closing costs for a home in Carlsbad, California.
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"Eventually the laws of supply and demand are going to drive people to other parts of the country," Glenn Kelman, CEO of the real-estate firm Redfin, told Bloomberg.
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Before joining Redfin, Mr. Kelman worked in Silicon Valley, where he was a co-founder of a company, Plumtree Software, that was sold for $200 million 11 years ago.
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"Consumers don't sell their houses often and don't want to be a guinea pig," said Glenn Kelman, the C.E.O. of Redfin, an online brokerage with more than 1,000 agents.
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Publicly traded competitor Redfin also introduced its own iBuyer in the first quarter of 2017, though it didn't announce the program until its IPO filing in June of 2017.
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Demand for home showings was still very high at the start of this year, according to Redfin, but the number of offers written was lower than a year ago.
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Even though it's not a listings engine or a marketplace, Nextdoor's new real estate section puts it in competition with sites like Zillow, Trulia (owned by Zillow) and Redfin.
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"The increases that we've seen so far have only gotten people off the couch and into the market," Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, told CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Tuesday.
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"The financial crisis at the start of the decade really set the stage and has had widespread ramifications on the housing market," Jason Bateman, head of Redfin Mortgage, said.
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In Seattle, 58 percent of homes were considered affordable in 2017, but that share dropped to 46 percent last year, according to a survey from Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Twitter is abuzz about this particular home because the finished basement has been converted into a "private adult sexual oasis," according to the listing on the real estate website RedFin.
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"It's a personal decision, but if you have an open house, you should put away your jewelry [and] put away pictures of your kids," said Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin.
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We view Redfin as a residential real estate brokerage with a fundamentally different relationship with technology that will enable it to better capture market share in a rapidly evolving landscape.
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Luxury home values nationwide fell in the first quarter of this year and recovered by barely 1 percent annually in the second quarter, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Home price gains have been moderating this year and bidding wars actually fell to the lowest rate since 2011, according to a new report from Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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So this is really more of a prospective "why it matters," since a strong pricing doesn't necessarily translate into trading activity – particularly given that Redfin is (yet another) unprofitable issuer.
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Redfin, a 12-year-old company that provides an online real estate database and brokerage services, has filed for a $100 million IPO, though the amount is likely a placeholder.
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That actually puts it comfortably below the area's median home price of about $2 million, and is a bit less than the Zillow and Redfin estimates of the home's value.
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"I do agree there are some well-heeled educated millennials who are very specific about their wants and demands," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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While there are a number of real estate sites including Zillow and Redfin, Compass aims to set itself apart by focusing on broker listings, for both rental and ownership opportunities.
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There're travel behemoths like Expedia, real estate riches pouring from Zillow and Redfin, titans of visualization and business intelligence software like Tableau, and up and coming success stories like Avalera.
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The average house sold in May went under contract in just 37 days, that's the fastest reading since Redfin, a real estate brokerage, began tracking the market seven years ago.
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Homes listed on Wednesday had a $2,023 advantage in sale price over homes listed on Sunday, according to Redfin, although analysts there could find no clear reason as to why.
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Amazon's search for a second headquarters outside Seattle is just the beginning of a tech exodus from expensive coastal cities to cheaper inland locations, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said Wednesday.
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Windermere Real Estate, a leader in the region, which uses contractor agents, has almost 25 percent of the market and about eight times the agents Redfin has in the area.
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A recent study by real-estate brokerage Redfin reveals five emerging tech hubs across the US where software engineers with a median income can still afford to buy a home.
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Despite Kelman's unique exuberance when envisioning the company's future, Redfin still has a tiny market share compared with other brokerages, like The Long and Foster Companies and HomeServices of America.
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These hybrid models, most easily demonstrated by Redfin, will be different than traditional agent teams because of how they use technology to lower the cost of each individual home sale.
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Google was rated the most attractive employer in the Bay Area, Squarespace was the highest rated in New York, while Redfin was No. 1 in Seattle (Amazon was ranked third there).
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Even Redfin, which early on, refunded two-thirds of the typical 3% buyer's agent commission to buyers, backed off that model and now only refunds a smaller amount of the money.
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Real estate company Redfin has been testing a feature that will allow home buyers to place a bid on a property via the company's website, according to The New York Times.
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While the official May sales count from the Realtors comes out Wednesday morning, Redfin, a real estate brokerage, said sales last month hit their fastest pace in at least seven years.
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Location: San Francisco Competitors: RedFin Employees: 13 Capital raised: $3.4 million Metrics: 1,3003 agents in 47 states, executed transactions in 22 states, claims to have already saved home buyers/sellers $500,000.
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The typical home that sold last month went under contract in 60 days, eight days faster than one year ago, according to a new report from Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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And Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could hypothetically buy the 100,000 homes in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for an estimated $19.4 billion, according to Redfin, since he's worth $21 billion.
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"We decided low inventory is also a permanent condition in Denver, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Seattle," said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, an online real estate company based in Seattle.
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A recent analysis by Redfin looked at major metro areas across the US and found the 10 that are the least likely to see a housing downturn in the next recession.
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Just 10% of offers written by Redfin agents for their clients in October faced a bidding war, down from 20183% a year ago, according to the Seattle-based real estate brokerage.
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"In this market, homebuyers have to move fast, yet high prices and low inventory are slowing down even the most earnest of house hunters," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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"The real estate market still favors sellers, with strong demand and rising prices, but perhaps less so now than earlier in the year," Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said in a statement.
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A 5 percent rate would cause more than a quarter of today's homebuyers to slow their plans, according to a Redfin survey of 4,000 consumers at the end of last year.
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"We'll see the time from application to closing shrink considerably as we're able to automate more of the preapproval, underwriting, appraisal, and the close," Jason Bateman, head of Redfin Mortgage, said.
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Tara Waggoner, the Houston market manager for brokerage and online listings firm Redfin, said the firm's local agents were getting about four times the number of calls they usually get from investors.
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But then she said that, even if Redfin never became a money-making thing, it would always be a good thing, because of what it did for our employees and our customers.
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A buyer with a $2,500 monthly housing budget lost nearly $30,000 in purchasing power this year, according to Redfin, which also calculated the share of homes that would no longer be affordable.
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Real estate experts at Redfin, another real estate brokerage, predict that rates will not move that much higher in 2017, in fact no higher than 4.3 percent on the 30-year fixed.
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The thought fills me with panic, even as I keep the Redfin real estate app on my phone's home page, scrolling new listings, viewing the possibilities with my realtor mom's discerning eye.
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Only 67 percent of homes available in 218 located in metro areas tracked by Redfin were priced affordably for younger buyers on a budget — down from 234 percent of homes in 28.
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Rather than complaining about the "pipeline problem," the real-estate tech company Redfin hired women with non-traditional backgrounds, and recruited women from their marketing team and taught them how to code.
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Goldman Sachs is leading the IPO for Seattle-based Redfin, which specializes in buying and selling homes and uses a mobile app to do tasks like schedule home tours and suggest listings.
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While overall home prices were still soaring in the first quarter, at the top 5% of the housing market, the bubble has begun to deflate, with prices down 1.1%, according to Redfin.
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Redfin, a brokerage, said home-buying demand has dropped in Seattle, which has been hard hit by COVID-19, but it hasn't seen a falloff yet in the rest of the country.
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"Despite remaining near three-year lows, mortgage rates have failed to bring enough buyers to the market to rev up competition for homes this summer," said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin.
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But in the last three months of 2017, San Francisco lost more residents to outward migration than any other city in the country, according to data from Redfin, the real estate website.
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Despite the alluring sales pitch of "a buy button for real estate" — Mr. Kelman's go-to descriptor — Redfin Direct is considerably more complicated than e-commerce sites hawking socks or dish soap.
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The most visible shifts so far have been in residential real estate, where companies like Opendoor, Redfin and Zillow have built platforms to ease home transactions through the "instant buying" business model.
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From a LinkedIn post by Glenn Kelman, the online real estate brokerage's C.E.O.: We had two SUVs, one carrying two bankers and three or four Redfin folks, one driving behind us empty.
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Because the housing market was in good shape heading into the pandemic, Redfin projected the coronavirus fallout to be mild and much less severe than the fallout caused by the 2008 recession.
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A recent analysis by Redfin looked at the 50 most-populated metro areas across the US and found the 10 most at risk of a housing downturn in the coronavirus-led recession.
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The home&aposs listing agent, Joanna Rose with Redfin, told Business Insider in early 2019 that when the previous owner first bought the home, it lived up to its "earthquake shack" name.
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The more unique 235% of the Hoya ETF, which the S&P Homebuilders ETF doesn't include, weighs home financing and real estate technology companies like Zillow, Redfin, CoreLogic, Realogy and RE/MAX.
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Strong boards, as well as the looming threat of activist investors, do a lot to assure top executives are responsive, says Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage.
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Redfin, a real-estate listing website, says that in the week ending November 11, views of homes for sale in Long Island City were up 1,049 percent from the same time last year.
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The program looks to be a relaunch of a feature that the company debuted over a decade ago: Redfin Direct, which it touted as the "first online home-buying service" back in 2006.
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According to a 223.33 study by real estate firm Redfin, Portland, Oregon is the third most caffeinated city in America (behind San Francisco and Seattle), with one coffee shop for every 28.20 people.
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A recent analysis by Redfin looked at major metro areas across the US and found the 10 that are most likely to be at risk of a housing downturn in the next recession.
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Carey goes to great lengths to create Irene's outrageous father-in-law, a man who plays pranks, blowing up a school of redfin fish in a river and scattering them in Irene's kitchen.
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According to Redfin, the average sale price of properties in the top 5 percent are up 43 percent nationally over the past decade, and up even more in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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As for the top two most bike-friendly cities for 2020, Minneapolis and Portland, local governments are committed to creating new bike infrastructure for environmental, health, affordability and safety reasons, according to Redfin.
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"Fair-weather bikers like myself are out in full force during the summer months in Minneapolis, but you still see bike commuters with ski goggles year round," local Redfin agent James Garry said.
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Even real estate firms, like Zillow and Redfin, have ibuyer divisions that will make a cash offer on a home -- often sight unseen -- based on the specific location and attributes of the property.
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To calculate monthly mortgage costs, Redfin assumed a 20 percent down payment, a 4 percent interest rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage, 1.125 percent annual property taxes and $70 for homeowner's insurance.
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The online real estate brokerage Redfin, for example, had initially forecast that rates for 30-year fixed mortgages would remain below 4 percent through next year, said Glenn Kelman, the company's chief executive.
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After-the-bell reports will come today from Altice US (ATUS), Applied Materials (AMAT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Equifax (EFX), International Flavors (IFF), Marathon Oil (MRO), MGM Resorts (MGM), Redfin (RDFN), and TripAdvisor (TRIP).
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"The feeling that I serve at the pleasure of the board, that it is a privilege to work at Redfin, is fundamental to this company and the best of business culture," he said.
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Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin, an online discount real estate broker, believes the lack of available credit is more of a problem than higher interest rates right now, especially for first-time buyers.
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I downloaded Zillow, the real estate app, just to, you know, browse around, to scope out the market (this isn't #spon for Zillow; you can use Redfin or Trulia to do the same thing).
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Redfin – The online real estate website operator's stock got a double upgrade to "overweight" from "underweight" at Stephens, based on valuation and the prospects for more e-commerce offerings in the real estate space.
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Despite the rise of digital platforms like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin for finding homes for sale, there's been a pronounced uptick in the number of properties sold with the help of real estate agents.
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"Buyers continue to be persistent when it comes to giving homes a shot, checking out what's coming on the market despite new inventory being few and far between," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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The next-biggest offering came from Redfin, a tech-enabled real estate brokerage that raised $138 million in its July debut, with shares up about 66 percent from the offering price in recent trading.
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In the fourth quarter, Redfin says that nearly 20 percent of Bay Area residents on its site looking for properties outside California were specifically searching for homes in Seattle, the most of any city.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (the world's second-richest person, worth $97.4 billion, according to Forbes) could buy the roughly 310,000 homes located in Charlotte, North Carolina, which Redfin estimates would cost $92.4 billion.
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Particularly given that quasi-rival RedFin, which appears to have similar revenue, has a public market cap of $1.74 billion (albeit with a decade's head start, which likely is a key differentiator for Fidelity).
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According to a recent survey by Redfin, a national online real estate brokerage with more than 22018,22017 agents, 2327 percent of buyers said they submitted an offer on a home without visiting it first.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - If the U.S. economy slips into a recession, homeowners in Riverside, California, will fare much worse than those in Rochester, New York, Seattle-based real estate brokerage Redfin predicts.
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"The pace of housing starts averaged just 1.2 million for the year, far short of the historical average of 1.5 million starts," Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson wrote in response to the Census report.
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" Along with Home Depot, he pointed to online real-estate brokerage Redfin, whose CEO warned investors last week of a slowing housing market, as a sign that "the housing industry has hit a wall.
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According to RedFin, the real-estate brokerage and research firm, fully 12 percent of homes listed for $10 million or more saw a price drop in 2018 — double the levels of 0003 and 2015.
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SOURCE: REDFIN "Rising prices and mortgage rates have priced out some potential buyers while causing others to conclude that waiting to buy could pay off, especially as listings rise," said Andrew LePage, a CoreLogic analyst.
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She also adds information about the history and characteristics of various architecture styles, and uses photos from the likes of Zillow and Redfin to illustrate how so many real estate listings inaccurately use the terms.
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Average sales prices for homes listed at $1 million or more fell 1.1 percent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, marking the biggest decline in more than two years, according to Redfin.
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The Zumper team tells me that the company has no interest in branching out to other real estate products that would compete with the likes of Zillow and Redfin, which mostly focus on home buying.
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Home sales jumped nearly 9 percent in March compared with March 2016, even as the number of homes for sale plunged 13 percent, according to a new report from Redfin, a national real estate firm.
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Stock market volatility caused a drop in luxury values in the first quarter of this year, but prices recovered slightly in the second quarter, rising 0.8 percent annually, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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Last week's well-received debut of tech-focused real estate brokerage Redfin showed there are pockets of strong retail investor demand — even amidst suffering in the broader IPO market for some recently debuted tech shops.
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The company recently examined searches of homes for sale by more than a million Redfin users in 90 metropolitan areas between July and September of 2018, and compared them with searches from the year before.
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"This cabinet in particular has been touted as one of the richest in history, with Trump being a real estate mogul and moving in those circles," said Steven Centrella, a real estate agent with Redfin.
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Over time, Zillow, Redfin and others have slowly added a few more search criteria, but OpenHouse takes all of this a step further by also helping you find a home and neighborhood that fits your lifestyle.
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For now, there's only one venture-backed tech company that has announced a forthcoming offering: Seattle-based real estate search and brokerage Redfin, which filed paperwork with the SEC declaring its intention to raise $100 million.
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"Lower interest rates are bringing buyers back, but without enough homes for sale to meet demand, we expect to see more bidding wars, which will push prices up this summer," said Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather.
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Redfin calculated the aggregate value of homes in US cities with more than 13,21 homes in order to determine which of the world's richest people could hypothetically afford to buy every single home in the city.
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"If weather was the only factor holding back home construction, then the warmer temperature would be an amazing bellwether of a strong start to the spring and summer selling season," Nela Richardson of Redfin tells CNBC.
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"Although growth in wages and labor force participation would have been good news for the future of the housing market, the critical metric right now is residential construction jobs," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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"In 2018, strong price growth will be met with higher interest rates in addition to possible tax changes that could make homeownership even more unaffordable than it is now," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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Redfin, an internet real estate firm in Seattle, introduced its own home value estimator less than two years ago, commissioning an independent study that showed its figures were more accurate than Zillow's (Zillow disputes its conclusions).
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"As much-needed large inventory increases finally arrive in some of the hottest markets, buyers are taking the opportunity to be choosy, offering only on well-priced homes," said Pete Ziemkiewicz, head of analytics at Redfin.
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The typical home went under contract in 42 days, a full week faster than a year earlier, and the lowest median days on market reported since Redfin began tracking the metric in 2009, according to a report.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand, could afford to buy all of the 90,000 homes located in Long Beach, California with his $63 billion fortune, at an estimated cost of $61.3 billion, according to Redfin.
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The top 26.93 percent of homes by price sold in the third quarter saw their values increase 226.9 percent compared with a year ago, hitting an average of $214.7 million, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage.
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While Redfin has expanded more quickly in the last few years, now serving over 80 metropolitan areas, it has been a small fry in the real estate business since starting its online brokerage service a decade ago.
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This batch includes three publicly-traded companies (Zillow, Real Page and Redfin), two others primed to go public in the next year (Airbnb and Procore) and one other that recently put its IPO plans on hold (Lemonade).
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A monthly demand index from real estate brokerage Redfin found the same number of people were requesting home tours in May as in April, but the number of buyers making offers fell 16.7 percent year over year.
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"Buyer demand has been stronger so far in 2017 than last year, but the combination of low inventory and rising home prices is taking its toll heading into the fall," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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"Even though it's a sellers' market nationally, homeowners often have to make a leap of faith to list their properties because there may not be a more desirable home to move to," said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson.
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"It's been a lot of high-income jobs, and couple that with not building enough new housing, and that's where you see a lot of rising costs," explained Taylor Marr, senior economist at online real-estate brokerage Redfin.
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Redfin — Shares of the real estate brokerage firm jumped nearly 7 percent after an analyst at Piper Jaffray upgraded the stock to overweight from neutral, citing a better outlook for the housing market as interest rates remain flat.
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"Our customer, which is a home buyer, is feeling more and more frustrated and bewildered in the last decade," said Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage that has more than 1,000 agents.
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A recent study by Redfin showed that while inventory increased between 2017 and 2018 in some of the country's hottest housing markets, the share of homes that were affordable to those earning the local median income actually decreased.
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"Social media companies should be doing more, but are we comfortable with [Facebook chief executive] Mark Zuckerberg or [Twitter's] Jack Dorsey as the arbiters of truth?" said Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of the real estate service Redfin.
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The data showed that Redfin users in pricey metros, such as San Francisco and San Diego, are searching for homes in more affordable areas that still offer the amenities of a major city, such as Austin and Phoenix.
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In addition to the now-established guard of sites like Redfin and Zillow that aggregate listings and provide a way to view properties from a range of agencies, there are startups like Zumper looking to tackle the rental market.
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Palo Alto-based Branch Metrics, is a leader in this "deep linking" space, as it's called, having attracted major technology companies as customers including Pinterest, Redfin, Hotel Tonight, Jet, BuzzFeed, Ticketmaster, Dubsmash, Coffee Meets Bagel, Home Away and others.
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"The moderation we're seeing in new-home prices was expected and follows right along with our observation late last year that builders were finally shifting their focus toward offering smaller, more affordable homes," said Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather.
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"Redfin was perfect for a type-A person like me because it made it really easy to stay organized and on track," said Adrienne Aldredge in 2014, a few months after she bought a house in the Portland area.
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While buyers in June were still requesting tours at the same rate as May, 11 percent fewer were putting pen to paper on an offer, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage which surveyed 15 major metropolitan housing markets.
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The Cape Cod style home, which has an estimated value of between $5 million and $6 million according to Redfin, is actually located on Broad Beach in Malibu, California, though on the show Mackenzie lives in Monterey, in Northern California.
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In its oldest markets, Redfin's market share still hovers below 2%... Last year, Redfin brokers and affiliated real estate agents helped people in the U.S. buy and sell more than 75,000 homes, representing $35.3 million of Redfin's $41.6 million in revenue.
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Jeff Bezos spent much of his childhood in Texas, and it turns out the Amazon CEO is now wealthy enough to buy every home in state capital Austin, which would cost about $129.9 billion, according to real estate site Redfin.
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More than a dozen Midwestern metro areas — led by Minneapolis, Detroit, Omaha, Cleveland and Columbus — welcomed more Bay Area transplants than vice versa in the first five months of this year, says Taylor Marr, data scientist and economist for Redfin.
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In the nation's 24 largest metropolitan housing markets, just four showed median home price appreciation between 2010 and 2016 that was higher than the median return of a stock portfolio, according to a report by Redfin, done in November 2016.
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Online real estate companies, including Opendoor, Redfin and Zillow — as well as more established residential real estate brokers, like Keller Williams — are vying to take control of the one-stop, internet-based real estate market, sometimes referred to as iBuying.
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Web-focused operations like Redfin, Zillow, Opendoor and Offerpad — along with brokerage giants like Realogy, which owns Coldwell Banker and other brands — have been building out "instant buying" programs that allow home sellers to solicit direct offers from the company.
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Sacramento All 6.8 5.1 4.4 4.3 3.9 1.03 3.6 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.6 1.2 1.1 1.0 3.1 % % % Source: Redfin By The New York Times For weekly email updates on residential real estate news, sign up here.
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The average price of a luxury property in the capital, defined as the most expensive 225 percent of homes, rose 235 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, according to data from Redfin, a national real estate brokerage firm.
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Residential real estate company Redfin compared the monthly cost of living in a dorm at 195 public colleges across the U.S. to the median monthly mortgage for a condo in the same cities to determine where it's actually cheaper to buy.
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Curious as to how this might change Californians' outlook, Redfin, a national real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, recently asked a sample of 900 homeowners if they would consider moving if they could no longer deduct state and local taxes.
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Methodology Redfin examined more than 7 million homes listed across 23 metro areas from 2012 through August 2016 to see how many of them went under contract within 30 days and how often they sold for more than their list price.
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There are still questions of fairness between agents and engineers that come up every month, but even in this entitled age, those questions hopefully begin with the understanding that everyone at Redfin is paid by the sweat of a real estate agent's brow.
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The share of homes for sale that were affordable on a median income fell in 2018 in all 49 of the metro areas that Redfin analyzed, but in a few markets, affordability increased; those include Hartford, Connecticut, Jacksonville, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee.
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Owning a home is often cited as one of the best ways to build wealth, and real estate site Redfin recently revealed America's hottest affordable neighborhoods to buy in 2019 — they are on the outskirts of major metros, like Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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"The buyers and the sellers are in this dance right now where it's a little harder to put deals together because nobody's certain where the market is going to land," said Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin in an interview on CNBC's Power Lunch.
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But the bidding wars and rapidly increasing prices in Los Angeles — the median sale price rose from $327,000 in April 2012 to more than $705,000 in April 2018, according to Redfin — make its real estate market one of the most challenging for buyers.
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With competition increasing among internet-based real estate firms for control of the homebuying and -selling market, companies including Opendoor, Redfin and Zillow are seeking ways to design an end-to-end experience when consumers buy, sell or trade a home online.
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The startup, which has raised $30 million in total equity funding and more than $110 million in debt financing to help Bay Area residents make down payments on homes, now plans to take on Zillow and Redfin with its new home search engine.
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In a 2007 interview on 60 Minutes, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman described real estate as "by far the most screwed-up industry in America" and vowed to do for it what Amazon had done for bookselling and eBay had done for the sale of collectibles.
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Four Madrona portfolio companies that have IPO'd over the last 20 months — the cloud software companies Smartsheet and Apptio, the real estate site Redfin, and the RFID chip maker Impinj — took on average 12 years to get into the hands of public market investors.
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"Millennials have seen their rents go up year after year, and may think that buying a home is more affordable, but the fact of the matter is housing has become unaffordable across the board, " says Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at real estate site Redfin.
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Realogy, which owns such brands as Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Sotheby's International Realty, Corcoran, ERA and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, has been up against stiff competition from newcomers like Compass and Redfin, both of which rely heavily on high-tech, online platforms.
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"The only issue is that as rates go down you still have low inventory and that's going to limit sales, so prices are going to go up, sales will not be as strong," said Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, in a recent interview on CNBC.
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The listing on Redfin makes no note of the horrific 1969 murders of grocery executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary, but instead describes the property as a "classic 1920's Los Feliz gated single story home" with "breathtaking" views of the Silver Lake hills.
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A number of technology companies have switched or are in the process of switching their contractors to employees for reasons similar to those of Redfin, including Shyp, a parcel shipping service; Luxe Valet, which offers a valet parking app; and Munchery, a food delivery service.
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"A lot of people feel like they want to get out while those markets are hot," said Jaime Moore, a real estate agent based in Reno who is with Redfin, a national real estate brokerage firm, speaking about the high-price cities in coastal California.
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Sure enough, the online real estate site Redfin this spring found that Denver had joined Seattle and San Francisco as cities with a "net outflow" of users — that is, there were more people on the site looking to leave Denver than to move there.
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Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of Redfin, a closely held online real estate brokerage, said he sometimes had to mount "pitched efforts" to attract female candidates to his company's nine-member board, because many other start-up chief executives were after the same people.
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The booming technology sector that attracts scores of well-paid workers has driven up home prices — resulting in stiff competition for people trying to put bids on houses in key areas, according to a recent report by Redfin, a Seattle-based real estate brokerage.
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"After years of strong price growth and intense competition for homes, buyers are taking advantage of the market's easing pressure by being selective about which homes to offer on and how high to bid," said Taylor Marr, senior economist at Redfin, in a release.
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At an age when I was finally realizing that everyone can be a maker of the world rather than just a bystander or a pundit, what Richard said gave me and the other folks at Redfin the confidence to stand up for what we believed in.
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A survey for the online brokerage Redfin — involving 4,000 people who bought or sold a home last year or tried to do so — found that 25 percent of respondents said a mortgage rate rise to 5 percent would have "no impact" on their home-buying plans.
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But unless you're actually thinking about selling, and invite a parade of brokers into your house to look at the granite countertops, all you've got is neighborhood gossip and the estimates you see on Zillow and other sites like Redfin and Trulia, a Zillow-owned company.
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But as the generation of people who grew up with e-commerce grows, and more home buyers get in the habit of beginning their searches on sites like Redfin and Zillow, Mr. Kelman feels it is timely, after 13 years, to bring back the online purchase option, he said.
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"Every day as a C.E.O., you have employees coming to you saying, 'I don't make enough to buy a house for my family,' and you already feel like you are paying through the nose," said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, the real estate site based in Seattle.
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On Thursday morning, hours after the proposal was unveiled, Redfin, a national real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, started drafting a memo to its more than 1,000 real estate agents instructing them to ensure that prospective home buyers can still afford homes in their desired price range.
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"Going forward, it won't be the record number of sales we saw in 2017, but we have seen mortgage rates come down considerably over the course of even the new year," Nela Richardson of Edward Jones Investments and former chief economist at Redfin, told CNBC's "On the Money" in an interview.
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Even though there are plenty of sites, like Zillow and Redfin, which offer home-buyers in America the chance to search for properties, commission rates for real-estate brokers (estate agents in Britain) have not fallen much, staying close to 6% (3% for the buyer's agent, 3% for the seller's).
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If you look on Redfin [a real estate brokerage] and see properties selling for $400-$500 per square foot, and it's only going to cost $300-$350 per square foot [to build], you can do the math when you sell the place and say we should be at worst even here.
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International Game Technology – The slot machine maker's sports betting platform will be used by FanDuel, initially being rolled out at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ. Redfin — The residential real estate brokerage announced a 3.5 million secondary common stock offering, as well as a $125 million convertible note offering.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For people who are relocating and cannot visit a property in person, technology has made the hurry-up buying process so comfortable that 21 percent of homebuyers say they have made an offer on a house without seeing it first, according to a new survey from real-estate brokerage Redfin.
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International Game Technology's (IGT) sports betting platform will be used by FanDuel Group, initially being rolled out at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, NJ. Redfin (RDFN) shares are lower after the residential real estate brokerage announced a 3.5 million secondary common stock offering, as well as a $125 million convertible note offering.
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"For sellers, it's a whole different ball of wax, especially if they bought at the bottom of the market in 2012, were able to refi into a really low, maybe even a 15 year mortgage rate that's under 3 percent, then their trade-offs are a lot different," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at Redfin.
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Read more: 'The longer the trade war goes on, the weaker China gets': Trump doubles down on tariff threats despite recession concernsA recent Redfin study revealed that in the US, the supply of new homes was down 1% in the second quarter of 2019, marking the biggest annual decline since the first quarter of 2013.
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Read more: The salary you need to comfortably afford rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the 25 largest US cities, rankedSeattle-based real estate brokerage Redfin recently released a study that reveals five emerging tech hubs across the US where software engineers making a median salary can still afford to buy a home.
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A study by real estate website Redfin ball-parked the total number of evictions in the United States in 2015 at 2.7 million, and also found that 37 percent of renters pay more than 30 percent of their income on rent, and one in four pay 50 percent or more, a reflection of their precarious financial straits.
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"It's the only one we could find where the seller was only accepting bitcoin, but when we searched our database of listings across the country we found about 75 properties in the listing remarks where the seller said they would accept bitcoin as payment," a Redfin spokesperson told CNBC, adding that those sellers would also accept other payment methods.
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He advises leading technology entrepreneurs, venture funds and investment banks in formation, financing, capital market and M&A transactions, and in in the past seven years was involved in over 20143 offerings, raising over $21 billion, for companies such as Appian, Atlassian, Alteryx, Avalara, DocuSign, FireEye, Forty Seven, LinkedIn, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Redfin, SendGrid, ServiceNow, Tenable, Zendesk, Zulilly and Zynga.
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Redfin found listings down 12 percent in June compared with a year ago in the markets it covers, but a wider survey from the U.S. Census shows the supply of existing homes, on a per capita basis, nationwide in the second quarter of this year was at the lowest level since 1982, when the government began tracking this data.
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Redfin calculated the share of homes in each metro area that were affordable during each year by using a household making the median income in that metro area, assuming a 20 percent down payment, an interest rate of 4.64 percent for 2018 and 3.95 percent for 2017, and a monthly mortgage payment of no more than 30 percent of gross income.
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You need to know that you can truly afford to both buy and own a home, and to get the full picture, you need to do more than simply compare your current rent payment with the potential mortgage payment, Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at real estate site Redfin, tells CNBC Make It. "Do a full check of all finances," Fairweather says.
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Mr. Trump is seen as less favorably disposed toward the concentration of power among the handful of large companies that dominate the internet, including Facebook, Google and Amazon, said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, an online real estate firm "I think Donald Trump may be facile with Twitter but mostly feels hostility towards these companies and their size," Mr. Kelman said.
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In fact, a study commissioned in March by Redfin, a national real estate brokerage, found that 31 percent of home buyers in the New York City area had begun searching for more expensive properties because of additional income from the new tax law, compared with 19 percent who said they had begun looking for homes in states with lower taxes.
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Sale prices of luxury homes in the second quarter of this year were up 7.5 percent from a year ago, the first time luxury gains have outpaced the rest of the market since 2014, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage which defines luxury as the top 953 percent of the most expensive homes sold in each city in each quarter.
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