Real estate Web sites see growth despite housing slide
| January 28, 2008 |  View for printing |
Talk about an uh-oh moment.
It was late October, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, had received just three months earlier a $12 million investment led by the marquee venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
In the interim, the mortgage industry melted down, foreclosures spiked and housing sales slowed to a crawl. Now, one of Redfin's biggest markets, Los Angeles, was battling a series of wildfires and Redfin's sales had stopped cold.
By BOB TEDESCHI THE NEW YORK TIMES
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