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Why online estate agents are failing

n need of some renovation. Would benefit from light work. Located in an up-and-coming area that still has a few challenges. As the online estate-agency Purplebricks puts itself up for sale amid widening losses and a collapsing share price, the jokes write themselves. Purplebricks, one of the pioneers of online house selling, floated almost a decade ago. By 2017 its shares were above 500p. Since then, they have fallen to less than

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