Redfin Corp is a technology-driven real estate brokerage that aims to revolutionize the way people buy and sell homes
By leveraging sophisticated online tools and a user-friendly platform, Redfin provides comprehensive real estate services that include property listings, home searches, and market insights. The company employs a team of real estate agents who utilize data analytics to streamline the home buying and selling process, helping clients to make informed decisions. Additionally, Redfin offers unique features such as virtual tours and innovative pricing strategies to enhance the customer experience in an increasingly digital market.
Shares of real estate technology company Redfin (NASDAQRDFN)
fell 16% in the afternoon session after the company reported weak fourth quarter results as its EPS and EBITDA missed. Its revenue and EBITDA guidance for next quarter also fell short of Wall Street's estimates. Overall, this was a weaker quarter.
For the first quarter, the company projected revenue between $214 million and $225 million, while analysts, on average, expect it to post $243.7 million in revenue.
Real estate technology company Redfin (NASDAQRDFN) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 12% year on year to $244.3 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $219.5 million was less impressive, coming in 10.4% below analysts’ estimates. Its GAAP loss of $0.29 per share was 21% below analysts’ consensus estimates.
(NASDAQRDFN) — Just over 41,000 U.S. home-purchase agreements fell through in January, equal to 14.3% of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That’s up from 13.4% a year earlier and is the highest cancellation rate for this time of year since at least 2017.
(NASDAQRDFN) — The median U.S. home-sale price rose just 3.5% year over year during the four weeks ending February 23, the smallest increase since September. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Mortgage rates have declined to their lowest level in more than two months, dipping from 7.13% to 6.78% in the last two weeks alone and upping buyers’ purchasing power by thousands of dollars. Mortgage rates are coming down due to signals that the U.S. economy is slowing, and heightened recession fears.
(NASDAQRDFN) — Florida ended January with 172,209 homes for sale—the highest inventory of any month on record, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That’s up 22.7% from a year earlier.
(NASDAQRDFN) — The typical U.S. homebuyer’s down payment was equal to 16.3% of the purchase price in December, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. In dollar terms, the typical homebuyer’s down payment was $63,188. That’s up 7.5% from a year earlier, the biggest increase in five months.
(NASDAQRDFN) — The median condo sale price in Inland Florida rose 5.4% year over year on average in January, compared with a 4.8% decrease on Florida’s Gulf Coast and a 3% drop on the Atlantic Coast, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Inland Florida’s condo prices rose even more than its single-family home prices, which climbed 3.7%.
(NASDAQRDFN) —The average minimum-wage earner in the U.S. would have to work 106 hours per week to afford the $1,599 median-priced apartment. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.
(NASDAQRDFN) — Half of the nation’s 10 most expensive home listings are in coastal Florida, three are in Southern California, one is in New York City and one is in Lake Tahoe. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. All 10 listings are asking more than $100 million—and two are asking more than $200 million.
Homebuyers received some good news this week: Mortgage rates declined for a fifth week to their lowest level since last year and the median U.S. home-sale price rose by the smallest increase since last September.
(NASDAQRDFN) — The combined value of U.S. homes gained $2.5 trillion in 2024 to reach $49.7 trillion, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. In percentage terms, the total value of the U.S. housing market grew 5.2% year over year. That was the slowest growth in a calendar year since 2019 and the second-slowest since 2011.
(NASDAQRDFN) — The median U.S. home-sale price rose 3.7% year over year during the four weeks ending February 16, the smallest increase since September. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Additionally, the weekly average mortgage rate dipped to 6.87%, its lowest level of the year.
(NASDAQRDFN) — The U.S. housing market has tilted in favor of buyers for the first time this decade, with 3.7 months of for-sale supply sitting on the market in January. That’s the most since February 2019 and up from 3.3 months a year ago, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.
(NASDAQRDFN) — U.S. home prices rose 0.6% from a month earlier in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, a tick faster than the 0.5% growth experienced each of the three months prior. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.
(NASDAQRDFN) — Just under one-third (32.6%) of U.S. home purchases were made in cash in 2024, down from 35.1% the year before and the lowest share since 2021. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Still, all-cash sales made up a bigger piece of the homebuying pie than before the pandemic, when the share ranged from 25% to 30%.
