Purplebricks announced on Wednesday it was shuttering its U.S. operations. The flat-fee brokerage was only live in the U.S. for less than two years, but its departure doesn’t come as a surprise to many former employees.
Source: Inman News
How the US broke Purplebricks: Former employees sound off
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