Ben Bear | Source | Founder/CEO at TurboHome
Ben Bear
Ben Bear is the co-founder and CEO at TurboHome and BuildCasa, where he is on a mission to build 100,000 homes in existing neighborhoods leveraging new and upcoming regulations. BuildCasa gives homeowners cash and builds housing on their extra lot space. They keep their existing house and mortgage, but unlock home equity and space for new housing to be built. Win-win! Previously he was the CEO of Spin Scooters where he led the company's sale to Tier in early 2022.
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TurboHome (http://www.turbohome.com)
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Opinion | I’m a property developer. The tax code is fueling the housing crisis.
Small developers are swimming upstream against federal tax policy that discourages homeownership.
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America's homebuyers have a huge new bargaining chip
One year after a landmark settlement upended real estate commissions, the process of buying a house has become a little cheaper for some savvy buyers.
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Now that homebuyers are on the hook for paying agent commissions, some ask: Is this worth it?
Bay Area startups offer to help buyers submit offers at a fraction of an agent’s traditional fee.
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Most sellers these days are still offering to pay a commission to the buyer's agent, as they did before the settlement's changes. But buyers who've negotiated a lower commission with their own agent could use that to make their offers more attractive in the eyes of a seller. "I think what has changed is that there are these sort of savvier buyers out there, particularly in the high-cost markets, that are looking for any advantage that they can get," Ben Bear, the founder and CEO of TurboHome, says.
