Redfin

Redfin is an online real estate brokerage with agents in several regions throughout the United States. The company was founded by David Eraker in his small apartment in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Among many options for the company's name, he settled on "redfin," an inversion of the word "finder." Redfin combines a real estate search site with real estate agents. Redfin.com’s map search displays homes for sale and information about those homes. Customers use the site to search broker databases, past sales records and third-party appraisals, while the company's local agents handle property access, legal paperwork and negotiations.