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Seller’s market? Buyer’s market? The pendulum is swinging

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Homes are still selling, but the ongoing market shift is giving homebuyers more and more leverage everyday, agents and economists told Inman this week. Continue reading →

Ben Kinney on ‘apocalypse planning’ and surviving tough times

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The founder of a billion-dollar real estate tech firm, who will be speaking at Inman Connect Las Vegas, sees a recession as likely but said that focusing on profitability has helped his own firms stay resilient. Continue reading →

Place picks up 2 new C-suite executives to ‘further our vision’

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Emiliano Delucia and Abby Powell will help lead the startup less than a year after it achieved unicorn status. The company said it employs 584 people. Continue reading →

Place to triple its workforce to bring its platform to more agent teams

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Team leaders Chris Suarez and Ben Kinney built a $1 billion proptech unicorn. Now they’re planning to triple the company’s workforce by the end of next year. Continue reading →

Place is the latest real estate company to reach unicorn status

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Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez’s company Place, launched last year, offers business infrastructure support to targeted, high-producing agents, ranging from accounting to marketing, transaction and CRM technology products. Continue reading →

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices CEO steps down to lead Place

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Place, Ben Kinney’s back-end technology platform, has tapped BHHS CEO Chris Stuart to lead the company as its new president, Inman has learned exclusively. Continue reading →

Teams likely to ‘increase in market share’ as brokerage margins sputter

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Panelists at Inman Connect Now argued that teams are nimble, and can provide significant value to both consumers and real estate professionals. Continue reading →

Foreign real estate ‘ground to a halt’ amid virus outbreak: DelPrete

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Analyst Mike DelPrete said in the latest episode of the Daily Dispatch podcast that the data indicates “there’s going to be a very dramatic drop off in real estate volumes.” Continue reading →

Ben Kinney, Chris Suarez launch new brand-agnostic platform

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Place Inc. will handle a variety of business tasks for teams, which will be able to keep their existing branding and remain in their brokerages. Continue reading →