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Redfin Names the 10 Best Cities for Coffee Snobs
[September 29, 2014]

Redfin Names the 10 Best Cities for Coffee Snobs


SEATTLE --(Business Wire)--

In honor of National Coffee Day, Redfin, the customer-first real estate brokerage, teamed up with Foursquare to find the 10 best cities for coffee snobs. While plenty of national chains serve up free cups of joe on this ultra-caffeinated holiday, many believe that not all coffee is created equal. For some coffee lovers, only "indie," or independently owned, high-end coffee shops will do. Redfin and Foursquare (News - Alert) joined forces to help these discerning coffee addicts.

The cities on this list have the most indie coffee shops per capita, according to Foursquare data. (Indie coffee shops are defined as those with fewer than 10 retail locations.) Here are the top 10 cities for coffee snobs:

1. Seattle, Washington
2. Portland, Oregon
3. Boulder, Colorado
4. San Francisco, California
5. Denver, Colorado
6. San Diego, California
7. Madison, Wisconsin
8. Austin, Texas
9. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
10. Sacramento, California

To read the full report and see the highest-rated coffee shop in each metro area, as well as the ZIP code with the highest concentration of indie coffee shops and the median home price in each of those ZIP codes (as well as the median home price in lattes, just for fun), please visit: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2014/09/best-cities-for-coffee-snobs.html

Methodology

For this report, Foursquare evaluated 38 major metropolitan areas to come up with the 10 that have the most independently owned coffee shops per capita, then found one ZIP code in each area with the highest concentration. "Chain" coffee shops, those with more than 10 locations, were excluded from the data. Redfin pulled sales information for the past year to find the median sale price of homes in each of the 10 ZIP codes, then translated that median price to lattes using $4 as the average latte price. The highest-rated indie cafe in each metro area was determined using Foursquare's rating system. Foursuare ratings are numbers, not stars, and take a bunch of different things into account, such as likes, dislikes, popularity, loyalty, local expertise and user tips.



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About Redfin

Redfin (www.redfin.com) is a customer-first real estate brokerage that represents people buying and selling homes. Founded and run by technologists, Redfin has a team of experienced, full-service real estate agents who are advocates, not salespeople, earning customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions. Redfin.com features all the broker-listed homes for sale, as well as for-sale-by-owner properties that don't pay brokers a commission. Redfin also offers online tools that make the entire process of buying or selling a home easier and more fun. The company serves major markets across the U.S. and has closed more than $13 billion in home sales. In 2012, Redfin was named one of The DIGITAL 100: World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies by Business Insider.

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Foursquare is all about searching for and discovering great places, wherever you are in the world. Local search should be better: our tastes are different so why should we get the same search results? We've built the new Foursquare app to focus on what you like, and the opinions of the people you trust the most. We learn what you like and lead you to places you'll love.


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