Redfin, the tech-driven real estate brokerage, today announced the debut of its homebuying and selling services in Connecticut. Redfin, which also announced its launch in Asheville, North Carolina today, states its mission is to reinvent real estate in the consumer’s favor.

Connecticut homebuyers can now use Redfin’s website smartphone apps to search all the agent-listed homes for sale, receive instant updates the moment a new home hits the market and book home tours with Redfin agents. The company gives part of its commission to buyers who purchase with Redfin agents.

The website gives homeowners the ability to sell their homes with a Redfin agent for a 1 percent listing fee, subject to a minimum of $3,000. Redfin agents provide homeselling services including pricing and staging advice, free professional photography, a 3D virtual tour and digital marketing.

In addition to its technology, Redfin agents are employees of the company who are paid a salary and earn bonuses based in part on customer satisfaction instead of commissions. Customer reviews for Redfin agents are published on their online profiles.

Richard Thomas, a lifelong Connecticut resident, will lead the brokerage’s operations in the state. In more than two decades working in real estate, Thomas has worked as an agent, managed brokerage offices and operated his own real estate company. Most recently, Thomas was a regional manager overseeing three Century 21 real estate offices serving Hartford, Middlesex and Litchfield counties.

Redfin will initially serve Fairfield, New Haven, Hartford, Middlesex and Litchfield counties, and plans to expand to other parts of the state.

“Given Connecticut’s population, healthy real estate market and adjacency to other thriving Redfin markets in New York and New England, we see expansive opportunities to grow the business here,” Taylor Connolly, Redfin district manager for the Northeast, said in a statement. “Entering Connecticut was a natural next step and one we would have taken far sooner, if not for state laws that prevented us from opening in Connecticut until Redfin was a publicly traded company.”