REAL AI: AI funding local news, ChatGPT will now remind you, AI Facts, Headlines, and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 3 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! OpenAI is funding Axios' local expansion We subscribe to nearly a dozen AI newsletters, but by far and away, our favorite AI news comes from Axios. Now Axios is making AI news of its own: OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, announced this week [...]

By |2025-01-17T08:10:28-08:00January 17th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence|0 Comments

FOR SALE: Online Real Estate Training Company

WAV Group is proud to represent one of America's most esteemed real estate trainers and their company. This highly successful subscription-based service boasts over 50,000 active subscribers who rely on its robust online portal for access to the most comprehensive and impactful real estate agent and leadership training available today.

By |2025-01-14T09:40:23-08:00January 14th, 2025|Acquisitions, M&A, PropTech|0 Comments

REAL AI: AGI in 2025, revisiting Claude, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 2 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! Is AGI coming in 2025? This week's AI buzz is around AGI – not Adjusted Gross Income but Artificial General Intelligence. The head of the company that gave us ChatGPT, OpenAI, wrote in his blog entitled “Reflections” : “We are now confident we [...]

By |2025-01-10T08:27:52-08:00January 10th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: AGI in 2025, revisiting Claude, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

Simplifying Homeownership: WAV Group Unveils Survey Insights on Property Management Portals

At WAV Group, we were inspired to learn more about homeownership portals because of our own very real need to manage four personal properties. Managing properties in three distinct locations required us to keep track of preferred vendors for plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and other essential services. We also needed a way to memorialize vendors we used for repairs, painting, and landscaping. Additionally, we needed reminders for routine maintenance tasks. Managing one home is challenging enough, but managing four is even more complicated. Who remembers the last time they changed a furnace filter or cleaned out a dryer vent?

By |2025-01-09T13:00:09-08:00January 9th, 2025|Broker-Agent Information, Homeowner Under Management, Research, WAV Group Research|Comments Off on Simplifying Homeownership: WAV Group Unveils Survey Insights on Property Management Portals

REAL AI: Year of the AI Agent, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 1 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! 2025 is the "Year of the AI Agent" We predicted that “AI Agents will be the next big thing" eight months ago at the beginning of May 2024. The following month, Apple announced Apple Intelligence at its developer conference, which we covered here, [...]

By |2025-01-03T11:57:02-08:00January 3rd, 2025|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on REAL AI: Year of the AI Agent, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

REAL AI: Top 5 AI stories, AI facts and headlines plus the AI Quote of the Year

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 52 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! Top 5 AI stories of 2024 During the last year, we amassed real estate-related AI content that included more than 100 original features, 250 AI facts and links to impactful AI videos, over 270 links to AI stories of the week, and 50+ [...]

By |2025-01-03T03:43:26-08:00December 27th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Top 5 AI stories, AI facts and headlines plus the AI Quote of the Year

REAL AI: Avoid AI recording devices, ChatGPT for Grandpa, Google Whisk, AI Facts, AI Headlines and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 51 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Please subscribe. Avoid AI recording devices A real estate broker friend who works for a major regional brokerage asked me about Plaud Note and Plaud AI. At first, I thought he was mistaking Plaud for Claude, a top AI Chatbot. However, after a brief conversation [...]

By |2024-12-23T08:04:44-08:00December 20th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on REAL AI: Avoid AI recording devices, ChatGPT for Grandpa, Google Whisk, AI Facts, AI Headlines and AI Quote of the Week

Inside Real Estate BoldTrail Product Milestones from 2024

What is BoldTrail? It's a combination of the best of the best technology that Inside Real Estate has either built or acquired over the last ten years.

By |2024-12-19T13:50:51-08:00December 19th, 2024|Broker-Agent Information, Follow the Leader, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on Inside Real Estate BoldTrail Product Milestones from 2024

REAL AI: AI Podcasts for the Holidays, Sora and Gemini overpromise, Headlines and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 50 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact our industry. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Sora, Gemini overpromises (again) Big announcements this week: the news that OpenAI is finally releasing Sora and Google was upgrading to Gemini 2.0 was everywhere. The problem is that the average agent doesn't have access to any of the cool stuff being discussed. Both are [...]

By |2024-12-13T08:32:29-08:00December 13th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: AI Podcasts for the Holidays, Sora and Gemini overpromise, Headlines and AI Quote of the Week

RESO Announces 2025 Board of Directors Election Winners

Congrats to RESO for recruiting a smart, passionate group of leaders representing many of the best and brightest companies in real estate today.  I love that there are strong leaders like Caitlyn McCrory from Anywhere and Joe Wilhelmy from Re/MAX elevating the voice and influence of brokers in bringing the practical realities and data challenges to be address by RESO.

By |2024-12-12T10:14:50-08:00December 12th, 2024|Announcements, Industry Observations, Press Releases|Comments Off on RESO Announces 2025 Board of Directors Election Winners

Webinar Recap: Navigating the Evolving Real Estate Brokerage Commission with SMARTS by LanTrax

The webinar highlights the evolution of commission structures over the past 30 years, from traditional split plans to more innovative models.

By |2024-12-12T12:20:36-08:00December 11th, 2024|Webinars|Comments Off on Webinar Recap: Navigating the Evolving Real Estate Brokerage Commission with SMARTS by LanTrax

CoreLogic’s Trestle Share: Connecting markets and increasing broker value

In the real estate industry, we thrive on connections – between agents, clients, and data. For MLSs, seamless data sharing isn't just a convenience; it has become necessary to stay competitive as geographic borders disappear, creating an even more interconnected marketplace. Even with the reduction of MLSs across America, overlapping market disorder continues to plague data management for brokers spanning multiple markets. MLSs can better serve their broker clients by fulfilling the need for efficient tools to break down data silos and deliver access to broader listing pools. Traditional data-sharing models have often been a roadblock. Costly, time-intensive data-sharing connections [...]

By |2024-12-10T10:18:36-08:00December 10th, 2024|Broker Information, MLS, News, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on CoreLogic’s Trestle Share: Connecting markets and increasing broker value