Purplebricks

Purplebricks Hits the Bricks, Leaves U.S. Market

By Bethany Erickson / July 8, 2019 /
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Flat-fee brokerage Purplebricks pulls out of the U.S. market, we have May housing numbers for Texas, and we find out what Dallas-Fort Worth town was named to a list of the 34 richest towns in the U.S. – all in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Purplebricks Hits the Bricks, Leaves U.S. Market Less than…

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Purplebricks Stock takes Nosedive, CEOs Depart: Trouble in Disruptor Land?

By Candy Evans / February 26, 2019 /

There could be rough waters ahead for the flat-fee, UK-based brokerage disruptor Purplebricks, which is now in four U.S. states: California, Arizona, Florida, and New York. I had heard they were planning to come to Dallas and Texas also — maybe not so after this news. Purplebricks is NOT an iBuyer. It is more akin…

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Honesty and Real Estate — Who Can You Trust?

By Bethany Erickson / October 6, 2018 /
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This week’s social media-generated story actually came about as the result of two different stories about honesty we asked readers to react to — one that gave a shockingly low number of those surveyed who felt that Realtors were trustworthy, and another that delved into the depth and scope of MLS manipulation.

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