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Redfin Appoints Alessio Sanfilippo As Chief Executive Officer

RECENTLY ACQUIREDAug 31, 2026•7 days ago

Position

Chief Executive Officer

Company

Redfin

Alessio Sanfilippo
SeattleSoftwareReal EstateReal Estate InvestmentCommercial Real Estate

Description

Rocket Companies announces that Alessio Sanfilippo has been named Chief Executive Officer of Redfin, effective immediately. Sanfilippo brings over two decades of experience from Meta and Intuit.

Company Information

Company

Redfin

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

Redfin (www.redfin.com) is a technology-powered real estate company. We help people find a place to live with brokerage, instant home-buying (iBuying), rentals, lending, title insurance, and renovations services. We sell homes for more money and charge half the fee. We also run the country's #1 real-estate brokerage site. Our home-buying customers see homes first with on-demand tours, and our lending and title services help them close quickly. Customers selling a home can take an instant cash offer from Redfin or have our renovations crew fix up their home to sell for top dollar. Our rentals business empowers millions nationwide to find apartments and houses for rent. Since launching in 2006, we've saved customers more than $1 billion in commissions. We serve more than 100 markets across the U.S. and Canada and employ over 6,000 people. Redfin may publish information and analysis about the U.S. residential real estate industry on its company blog at www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-news/. We encourage investors and others interested in our company to review and subscribe to the information we post on our company blog, as some of the information may be material. Redfin-F

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