Real estate website, brokerage platform, home search, rentals, agents, Redfin Estimate, Rocket Mortgage, housing data, market research, and online property tools
Redfin
Redfin is a real estate website and brokerage platform where people search homes for sale or rent, compare property information, estimate home values, connect with agents, and use tools for buying, selling, renting, and financing homes.
What Redfin is
Redfin is a real estate website, mobile app, and brokerage platform. On Redfin, people can search homes for sale, rentals, open houses, neighborhood data, home-value estimates, mortgage tools, and local agents while comparing property details and housing-market information.
Search plus brokerage
Redfin is different from a simple listings directory because it combines search software with real estate services. Its website helps users browse inventory, save searches, follow price changes, and study comparable homes, while its brokerage side connects buyers and sellers with agents who work inside the Redfin system or its partner network.
The Redfin Estimate
The Redfin Estimate is an automated home-value estimate built from MLS data, public records, recent sales, neighborhood patterns, and machine-learning models. Redfin says the estimate is a starting point, not an appraisal or a substitute for local agent judgment, inspections, negotiations, or a professional appraiser.
Buying, selling, renting, and mortgages
The site organizes several home decisions in one place. Buyers use listing search, tours, alerts, maps, affordability tools, and agents. Sellers compare pricing and listing options. Renters browse rentals and market data. Mortgage tools and Rocket Mortgage links connect search activity to financing questions, especially after Redfin became part of Rocket Companies.
Redfin Powered by Rocket
Rocket Companies completed its acquisition of Redfin in July 2025 and introduced the Redfin Powered by Rocket branding. The combination links a large mortgage platform with Redfin's real estate search, brokerage network, and consumer housing data, aiming to make the path from home search to financing more connected.
Why it matters
Real estate search sites shape how people first understand a housing market. Redfin matters because it puts listings, maps, price history, automated estimates, agent services, rentals, and mortgage context into one consumer-facing workflow. That can make research faster, but it can also influence what buyers and sellers treat as normal, comparable, or affordable.
Limits and tradeoffs
Redfin can make housing information easier to scan, but it cannot remove the uncertainty of a local property decision. Listings can change quickly, automated estimates can miss condition or unusual features, and online demand signals may not match a final sale price. Serious transactions still need current local advice, inspections, disclosures, financing review, and careful contract work.
WHOIS domain data
Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record
- Domain
- redfin.com
- IP address
- 3.170.19.42
- Registrar
- GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
- WHOIS server
- whois.brandsight.com
- Referral URL
- http://gcd.com
- Created
- May 2, 2000
- Updated
- April 7, 2026
- Expires
- May 2, 2027
- Nameservers
- ns-146.awsdns-18.com (205.251.192.146); ns-716.awsdns-25.net (205.251.194.204); ns-1591.awsdns-06.co.uk (205.251.198.55); ns-1284.awsdns-32.org (205.251.197.4)
- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited; serverDeleteProhibited; serverTransferProhibited; serverUpdateProhibited
- Contact privacy
- Registrant and technical contacts are listed as Brandsight Privacy Customer 452288 in Boise, Idaho, United States.