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iBuyer

iBuyer noun: a company which offers to buy real estate (usually residential) quickly for cash, often without the level of due diligence exercised by traditional buyers and using computer algorithms to determine price.

Noun

iBuyer (plural iBuyers)

  1. A company which offers to buy real estate (usually residential) quickly for cash, often without the level of due diligence exercised by traditional buyers and using computer algorithms to determine price.
    • So iBuyers - these are companies like Opendoor, Redfin and Zillow. And they started doing this a few years ago - buying homes.2021 November 8, Stacey Vanek Smith, “iBuyers, Zillow, and 'the lemons problem'”, in The Indicator from Planet Money, via NPR

Forms of iBuyer

pluraliBuyers

Origin of iBuyer

Blend of instant + buyer. First attested in 2017.

Questions about iBuyer

What does iBuyer mean?
IBuyer means a company which offers to buy real estate (usually residential) quickly for cash, often without the level of due diligence exercised by traditional buyers and using computer algorithms to determine price.
What part of speech is iBuyer?
IBuyer is a noun.
What is the plural of iBuyer?
The plural of iBuyer is iBuyers.

Words near iBuyer in the dictionary

  1. Iburi
  2. IBUs
  3. ibutamoren
  4. ibuterol
  5. ibutilide
  6. iBuyer
  7. iBuyers
  8. IBV
  9. IBW
  10. Ibycus
  11. IBZM

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