Bradley Inman ( Brad Inman) is a journalist and

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who founded several media companies. Inman's knowledge of the

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industry dates back to his days as a syndicated real estate columnist with the ''

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''. Inman is also the author of a nove
The Right Way to Do Wrong
and non-fiction book
California Real Estate: the 1980s and 1990sReal Estate Will Never be the Same
an
Livable Neighborhoods of the Bay Area
Inman grew up in

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and graduated from

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Companies

* Inman is co-founder of ClimateCheck, a search engine that rates climate change risk for property.
Sold in 2021
to Beringer Capital, Inman News was founded in 1996 as an online news source for the real estate industry. Brad Inman is the founder and continues to contribute as a guest columnist and speak on real estate issues. Inman News holds annual events where Brad Inman has interviewed technology and media personalities such as

Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including ...

Arianna Huffington Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (née Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, el, Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου ; born July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of ''Th ...

Craig Newmark Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for companie ...

Barry Diller Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman. He is Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of ...

Kara Swisher Kara Anne Swisher ( ) is an American journalist. She has covered the business of the internet since 1994. As of 2022, Swisher was a contributing editor at ''New York'', the host of the podcast ''Sway'', and the co-host of the podcast ''Pivot.'' ...

and

Barbara Corcoran Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10, 1949) is an American businesswoman, investor, syndicated columnist, and television personality. She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million ...

. * Inman founded online real estate firm HomeGain.com in 1999, which was acquired by

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in 2005. * In 2005, Inman started TurnHere.com, an Internet video production and distribution platform that produced editorial and advertising content for companies such as Conde Nast, NBC, Williams Sonoma, Yelp and OpenTable. * Inman founded

Vook Pronoun was a New York-based company that provides free book publishing, marketing, and analytics services to authors. Pronoun was launched in 2015. Founded as Vook, the company was renamed Pronoun following acquisitions of publishing analytics p ...

, an enhanced ebook company, in early 2009 with partners including the New York Times, NBC and Simon & Schuster, and authors including Deepak Chopra, Seth Godin and Anne Rice. * Inman was the first investor in

Curbed ''Curbed'' is an American real estate and urban design website founded as a blog by Lockhart Steele in 2006. The full website, founded in 2010, featured sub-pages dedicated to specific real estate markets and metropolitan areas across the Unit ...

and served as Chairman before it was sold to

Vox Media Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The company was established in November 2011 by Jim Bankoff and Trei Brundrett to encompass ''SB Nation'' (a sports blog network founded in 2005 by ...

. * Inman was on the Microsoft team that launched HomeAdvisor in 1998.

Publications

* California Real Estate: the 1980s & 1990s (February 18, 2020) * The Right Way to Do Wrong (January 28, 2020) * Real Estate Will Never be the Same (July 9, 2019) * Livable Neighborhoods of the Bay Area (March 1, 1992)

References

External links

Inman News web site
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