Redfin: Buy, Sell & Rent Homes

Name: Redfin: Buy, Sell & Rent Homes
Rating: 4.8 (1561690 reviews)
Author: Redfin

Apartment & Real Estate Finder

Free

1.6M Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Lifestyle
Developer

Redfin
Language

EN
English
Size

185
MB

We’re excited to announce that Redfin is now part of Rocket Companies. It’s the same great app you love, now with more ways to make owning a home more affordable with Rocket Mortgage®.* Whether buying, selling, or renting your next home, Redfin can help you every step of the way. Receive personalized recommendations and real estate listings updated every two minutes.** Browse photos and see up-to-date property details. Connect with a local Redfin agent. Get preapproved for a home loan with Rocket Mortgage. Book tours to suit your schedule. The Redfin app lets you do it all in one place – so you can stay ahead of the competition with confidence and speed. Have a question about a Redfin listing? Get quick answers on for-sale listings from our AI assistant, Ask Redfin. And give your eyes a break with dark mode, designed for a more comfortable search experience – day or night. Some of our most popular features: Find homes first • Filter by price, property type, and school district to find your dream home. • Customize your search: Instantly see every house, apartment, condo, and townhome that meet your search criteria. • See listings first with real-time notifications: We'll notify you within five minutes when a home comes on the market that matches your saved search criteria. • Search on all your devices: Save your favorite homes and searches to your Redfin account and access them anytime, anywhere on the app or the Redfin website. • Search by school: Search for homes near specific schools and school districts. • Learn more about your costs: Calculate mortgage, property tax, HOA, and insurance with our mortgage calculator on real estate for sale, directly within your search. • Commute feature: See how long your commute will be from your dream home. Tour homes fast • Schedule home tours instantly: Book a tour with a local Redfin agent, right from the app.† • Plan open house visits: Get directions and attend every open house in your area. • Share homes with your search partner: Easily share your favorite homes from the app (or via text, email, or social media), before you book a tour. Get a competitive edge • Speed that gives you an edge: Our partnership with Rocket Mortgage streamlines the preapproval process so you can move fast when it matters most. • Don’t miss out: We’ll tell you which homes are likely to sell the fastest so you don’t miss the perfect home. • Build your home buying know-how: Sign up for free Redfin home buying classes and real estate events. • Gain exclusive insights: Read comments about what a home is really like, written by Redfin agents after they tour the home. • Sold home data: Get the latest data on sale prices of nearby homes in most markets. • Find accurate home data: Most MLS real estate listings refresh every two minutes.* Disclaimers: *All mortgage lending products and information are provided by Rocket Mortgage, LLC | NMLS #3030; www.NMLSConsumerAccess.org. Licensed in 50 states. For additional information, please visit RocketMortgage.com. Rocket Mortgage is an affiliate of Redfin. You aren't required to use its lending services. Learn more at Redfin.com/afba. **50% of MLS listing updates received by Redfin will post within two minutes. †Tours subject to property and agent availability. Photos, floor plans, and 3D tours may not be available on all listings. Photos for illustrative purposes only. Screens simulated. Individual results may vary. Equal Housing Opportunity.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

1.6M Ratings

Some good, some bad
12/04/2023

upyoursb1g
Overall it's easy to use and laid out well. There are a few things that frustrate me though. One thing is that I can't set a down payment amount, I can only do a percentage. That obviously changes if you're looking at houses that are listed for different amounts. So if you're trying to see the estimated monthly payment, you have to constantly adjust the down payment. I have a set amount of money to put down, whether that's 20% or 30%, that'll depend on the price of the offer, and I would assume many people are in a similar situation.Also, the Feed part just makes no sense. I have one saved search, so that should be the parameters set for the feed. 3+ bed, 2+ bath, minimum 1,500 sq ft within a 30 minute radius of one city is what I have set. Fairly basic house. Yet my feed is constantly filled with 2 bed, 1 bath with smaller sq ft, and they are coming up from all over the place, a lot from 2.5-3 hours away, up to 4.5 hours away. You can toggle off specific cities, so I'm constantly turning off cities but more and more pop up. I click on a lot of them when they come up because I literally have no idea where they're at, and once I see how far away they are, I go in and toggle the city off. So I don't know if because I click on it, that triggers them to send me more that are super far away, even though I keep turning them off. I also have pending houses turned off, yet several that show up that are pending.Finally, it will send notifications of "recommended" houses, but many "exact matches" are not sent. None of it makes sense and it's very frustrating.
Some good, some bad
12/04/2023

upyoursb1g

Overall it's easy to use and laid out well. There are a few things that frustrate me though. One thing is that I can't set a down payment amount, I can only do a percentage. That obviously changes if you're looking at houses that are listed for different amounts. So if you're trying to see the estimated monthly payment, you have to constantly adjust the down payment. I have a set amount of money to put down, whether that's 20% or 30%, that'll depend on the price of the offer, and I would assume many people are in a similar situation.Also, the Feed part just makes no sense. I have one saved search, so that should be the parameters set for the feed. 3+ bed, 2+ bath, minimum 1,500 sq ft within a 30 minute radius of one city is what I have set. Fairly basic house. Yet my feed is constantly filled with 2 bed, 1 bath with smaller sq ft, and they are coming up from all over the place, a lot from 2.5-3 hours away, up to 4.5 hours away. You can toggle off specific cities, so I'm constantly turning off cities but more and more pop up. I click on a lot of them when they come up because I literally have no idea where they're at, and once I see how far away they are, I go in and toggle the city off. So I don't know if because I click on it, that triggers them to send me more that are super far away, even though I keep turning them off. I also have pending houses turned off, yet several that show up that are pending.Finally, it will send notifications of "recommended" houses, but many "exact matches" are not sent. None of it makes sense and it's very frustrating.
Redfin - Greatest Realtor experience
09/22/2024

dgpal
I sold my home with Redfin a year ago and had an exceptional experience. Redfin is a tremendous value, as one of the most popular real estate apps and websites, selling your home here allows you to reach by far the most buyers, and have advanced and transparent data at your fingertips on how the showings and buyers perceive your home. At the same time, Redfin chooses to offer a tremendous value in only charging a 1.5% seller commission. Truly for their ability to reach hundreds of thousands of buyers every day they could probably charge higher, but their whole approach has a company is volume and cost benefit to the consumer. It’s amazing to me that everyone isn’t using Redfin, and only tells you how corrupt the legacy real estate community is in continuing to charge double the fees while not even using the latest technology. This monopoly was recently overturned by the NAR lawsuit and I’m hopeful that more sellers and buyers will see the obvious benefits of Redfin. Real estate is in desperate need of disruption and the cost to sell and buy homes are far too high. Go with Redfin and you can take one step towards, advancing the real estate industry to a smarter and more technology enabled community.
Redfin - Greatest Realtor experience
09/22/2024

dgpal

I sold my home with Redfin a year ago and had an exceptional experience. Redfin is a tremendous value, as one of the most popular real estate apps and websites, selling your home here allows you to reach by far the most buyers, and have advanced and transparent data at your fingertips on how the showings and buyers perceive your home. At the same time, Redfin chooses to offer a tremendous value in only charging a 1.5% seller commission. Truly for their ability to reach hundreds of thousands of buyers every day they could probably charge higher, but their whole approach has a company is volume and cost benefit to the consumer. It’s amazing to me that everyone isn’t using Redfin, and only tells you how corrupt the legacy real estate community is in continuing to charge double the fees while not even using the latest technology. This monopoly was recently overturned by the NAR lawsuit and I’m hopeful that more sellers and buyers will see the obvious benefits of Redfin. Real estate is in desperate need of disruption and the cost to sell and buy homes are far too high. Go with Redfin and you can take one step towards, advancing the real estate industry to a smarter and more technology enabled community.
Pricing sort is driving me nuts!
05/20/2018

LadyBugV1
I used to love this app but am ready to drop it just because of the pricing sort. I get it has some glitches but I can live with those. THIS glitch, I simply can’t because it affects the entire experience of looking for a home. Each time the search refreshes itself, I have to remind the app to apply the sort order I’ve already selected (Low to high pricing) because the sort is now in some Redfin preferred order. Of note - when you go to change the setting, it still says it’s in low to high pricing sort order (untrue) since the houses are not listed that way. To fix it, I have switch the order to high to low or any other sort, go back to the app to “awaken” sort , then go back again to sort settings and switch to low to high and then back again to the app for the sort to actually reset itself to my preferred sort. Using the map - Imagine you move your search 5 miles east - you have to repeat the above process again because the home results are no longer listed in low to high pricing. In one 15 min use of the app, I have to repeat this insane reawaken and reset sort order several times! It tells me the designers don’t actually use their app. Incredibly annoying especially since it used to work properly a while back!! FIX IT please!!

Developer Response
Hello,Thanks for letting us know, I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with the app! Can you please email customer-service@redfin.com so we can look into this further?Have a great day!Emily| REDFIN
Pricing sort is driving me nuts!
05/20/2018

LadyBugV1

I used to love this app but am ready to drop it just because of the pricing sort. I get it has some glitches but I can live with those. THIS glitch, I simply can’t because it affects the entire experience of looking for a home. Each time the search refreshes itself, I have to remind the app to apply the sort order I’ve already selected (Low to high pricing) because the sort is now in some Redfin preferred order. Of note - when you go to change the setting, it still says it’s in low to high pricing sort order (untrue) since the houses are not listed that way. To fix it, I have switch the order to high to low or any other sort, go back to the app to “awaken” sort , then go back again to sort settings and switch to low to high and then back again to the app for the sort to actually reset itself to my preferred sort. Using the map - Imagine you move your search 5 miles east - you have to repeat the above process again because the home results are no longer listed in low to high pricing. In one 15 min use of the app, I have to repeat this insane reawaken and reset sort order several times! It tells me the designers don’t actually use their app. Incredibly annoying especially since it used to work properly a while back!! FIX IT please!!
Developer Response 05/21/2018
Hello,Thanks for letting us know, I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with the app! Can you please email customer-service@redfin.com so we can look into this further?Have a great day!Emily| REDFIN
Overall a helpful tool
06/23/2019

sm.007
Redfin is a good app. Simple, transparent, and with good filters to narrow down real estate search. It falls short of a 5-star app because of two strange behaviors:1. It doesn’t let you view all the homes for sale in a city based on Great Schools rankings. You have to zoom into a very small area for school-based filtering to apply. Until then, the filter simply doesn’t work. The way I like to do property searches is to look at an entire city (or custom area), filter on Great Schools ranking 8+, and then play around with the resulting options. The app doesn’t let you operate that way.2. In select cities such as New York City, it requires that you re-enter your password to view the complete listing. Even after re-entering, the app takes you back to the restricted version of the listing as if you still haven’t entered the password. You need to kill the app and re-open it immediately to see the unrestricted listing. It’s a pretty annoying bug that affects me almost every session.
Overall a helpful tool
06/23/2019

sm.007

Redfin is a good app. Simple, transparent, and with good filters to narrow down real estate search. It falls short of a 5-star app because of two strange behaviors:1. It doesn’t let you view all the homes for sale in a city based on Great Schools rankings. You have to zoom into a very small area for school-based filtering to apply. Until then, the filter simply doesn’t work. The way I like to do property searches is to look at an entire city (or custom area), filter on Great Schools ranking 8+, and then play around with the resulting options. The app doesn’t let you operate that way.2. In select cities such as New York City, it requires that you re-enter your password to view the complete listing. Even after re-entering, the app takes you back to the restricted version of the listing as if you still haven’t entered the password. You need to kill the app and re-open it immediately to see the unrestricted listing. It’s a pretty annoying bug that affects me almost every session.

Thanks for using Redfin for your home search! This update includes minor bug fixes & performance improvements. At Redfin, we're always looking for ways to improve the real estate experience for users. If you have any feedback, feel free to reach us at https://www.support.redfin.com.

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