Company Description
Redfin Corporation (RDFN) is described in its public materials as a technology-powered real estate company that helps people find a place to live through brokerage, rentals, lending, and title insurance services. The company highlights that it runs what it calls the country's #1 real estate brokerage site, combining real estate brokerage operations with an online platform where users can search for homes, connect with agents, and access related housing services.
Redfin states that its customers can work with a top agent while saving thousands in fees, and that its home-buying customers are able to see homes first through on-demand tours. In addition to brokerage, Redfin points to integrated lending and title services that are intended to help buyers close transactions quickly. Its rentals business is described as empowering millions of people across the United States to find apartments and houses for rent.
According to repeated company descriptions in its news releases, Redfin serves approximately 100 markets across the U.S. and Canada. Over its operating history since launching in 2006, the company reports that it has saved customers more than $1.8 billion in commissions. Redfin also emphasizes its use of technology and data, offering tools such as the Redfin Data Center, where users can learn about housing market trends and download data based on the company’s analysis of listings, sales, and broader market indicators.
Redfin’s business also includes a set of subsidiaries and affiliated brands. The company identifies Bay Equity Home Loans®, Rent.™, Apartment Guide®, Title Forward® and Walk Score® as part of its broader corporate family. These brands extend Redfin’s presence into mortgage lending, rental search, title services, and neighborhood walkability data, complementing its core real estate brokerage operations.
In multiple reports, Redfin describes itself as a "technology-powered real estate brokerage," reflecting a model that combines licensed agents with software and online tools. Its public commentary on the housing market frequently references metrics such as median sale prices, asking prices, mortgage payments, pending sales, new listings, active listings, days on market, and the share of homes selling above list price. These recurring data series illustrate how Redfin uses information from hundreds of U.S. metro areas to track conditions in residential real estate.
Redfin’s platform also supports homeowners after purchase. For example, the company has described an Owner Dashboard that allows homeowners to claim their home, track an estimate of its value, review local market trends, and connect with a Redfin agent to initiate the selling process. In connection with this homeowner focus, Redfin announced a partnership with Thumbtack, a technology company that connects users with local service professionals. Through this partnership, homeowners who claim their home on Redfin and visit their Owner Dashboard can browse popular services, connect with local pros, read reviews, and get cost estimates for home improvement and maintenance projects.
As part of that partnership description, Redfin notes that Thumbtack’s AI-powered system helps match homeowners with appropriate professionals for tasks such as painting, landscaping, cleaning, inspections, repairs, and other projects aimed at maintaining or improving a property. Redfin positions this integration as a way to support homeowners throughout their homeownership journey, from buying and selling to ongoing care of the property.
From a corporate and regulatory perspective, Redfin’s common stock, with a par value of $0.001 per share, was previously registered under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol RDFN. A Form 25 filed by Nasdaq Stock Market LLC identified Redfin Corp as the issuer and Common Stock as the class of securities removed from listing and/or registration under Section 12(b). The Form 25 indicates that Nasdaq complied with its rules to strike the class of securities from listing and/or withdraw registration on the exchange.
Subsequently, Redfin Corporation filed a Form 15 to certify the termination of registration under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and the suspension of its duty to file reports under Sections 13 and 15(d). In that filing, Redfin identified its common stock as the class of securities covered by the Form 15 and indicated that the approximate number of holders of record as of the certification date was one. The company relied on Rule 12g-4(a)(1) and Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(i) in connection with this termination and suspension.
Redfin also reported a significant corporate transaction in a Form 8-K. In that report, the company stated that it had entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated March 9, 2025, with Rocket Companies, Inc. and a wholly owned Rocket subsidiary, Neptune Merger Sub, Inc. The transaction provided for the merger of Merger Sub with and into Redfin, with Redfin continuing as the surviving corporation and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocket. The Form 8-K states that on July 1, 2025, the buyer parties completed the acquisition of the company.
In connection with the merger, Redfin disclosed that Rocket became a co-obligor under Redfin’s outstanding convertible senior notes, and that, effective as of July 1, 2025, holders of those notes would be entitled to convert them into shares of Rocket Class A common stock based on specified conversion rates. Redfin also agreed to guarantee Rocket’s obligations under certain senior notes and Rocket Mortgage senior notes, as described in supplemental indentures referenced in the Form 8-K.
These filings indicate that Redfin no longer has its common stock listed on Nasdaq and has terminated its registration and periodic reporting obligations for that class of securities. The company continues to exist as a corporation but, according to the Form 8-K, operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocket Companies, Inc. Investors researching the historical RDFN stock should be aware that the ticker represented Redfin Corporation prior to its acquisition and delisting, and that ongoing public equity information for the combined business would be associated with Rocket, as described in the merger disclosure.