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REAL AI: Free AI image creation, 5 ways agents can use image generators, facts, headlines, and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 29 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered to your inbox every Monday. Joining the AI image generator movement Have you noticed that the photo or image atop your favorite news story or feature often is crediting Midjourney? Chances are it used to say Adobe Stock, Getty Images, or a similar paid licensing image site. You will still [...]

By |2024-07-19T08:13:48-07:00July 19th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on REAL AI: Free AI image creation, 5 ways agents can use image generators, facts, headlines, and AI Quote of the Week
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Cash offers: Accelerating a first-time buyer’s ability to “win the deal”

Higher interest rates, record low inventory, rising home prices, and investors snapping up the most affordable housing – it feels like all the market conditions are working against first-time buyers. Then comes the news that zavvie, teaming with Luminate Home Loans and its NEO Home Loans, has been helping hundreds of first-time buyers (and others) break the bad-news cycle. By giving more buyers the opportunity to buy a home with a cash offer, there is some really good news – especially for first-time buyers. As a former loan officer for 8 ½ years – and from my time at Fannie [...]

By |2024-07-18T00:21:17-07:00July 17th, 2024|Industry Observations, Mortgage, News, Press Releases, Technology|Comments Off on Cash offers: Accelerating a first-time buyer’s ability to “win the deal”
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REAL AI: RPR AI video scripts, Goodbye Google Hello AI, facts, headlines and AI Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 28 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. AI from RPR creates market trend video scripts Video for real estate agents has presented a conundrum since YouTube launched nearly two decades ago. Agents know the power of video, but most efforts have focused on posting listing videos that get very few buyer clicks. Even though YouTube [...]

By |2024-07-15T12:41:57-07:00July 12th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Builders, Industry Observations, Marketing, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: RPR AI video scripts, Goodbye Google Hello AI, facts, headlines and AI Quote of the Week
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REAL AI: AI convenience versus risk, Cool Gemini AI party trick, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 27 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. AI convenience versus risk Trying to keep up with the latest AI developments is like solving a Rubik's Cube that changes colors every second. There's also an extra layer of cutting through the hyperbole and inaccuracies reported daily. For example, a recent blog post touted a "breakthrough" using [...]

By |2024-07-05T08:06:42-07:00July 5th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Industry Observations, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: AI convenience versus risk, Cool Gemini AI party trick, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: Update on AI in real estate from NAREE, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 25 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Update on AI in real estate from NAREE This week at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (naree.org), Jason Hidalgo of the Reno Gazette-Journal hosted a panel discussion on “Nearing the Inflection Point: Artificial Intelligence and Housing.” Featured panelists included Zillow AI expert Ondrej Linda; Tech-pert Glenn [...]

By |2024-06-21T08:37:54-07:00June 21st, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Update on AI in real estate from NAREE, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week
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REAL AI: Will it be the Apple of your AI, Apple Intelligence could be the AI game-changer, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 24 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. We post a new edition every Friday, and our free newsletter is delivered every Monday. Will it be the Apple of your AI? As we predicted two weeks ago, the tech world (and Wall Street) was abuzz this week about Apple's AI-related announcements at its developer conference. Our take: most press reports were off the mark, lamenting how Apple is playing “catch up” when it [...]

By |2024-06-14T09:27:05-07:00June 14th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Will it be the Apple of your AI, Apple Intelligence could be the AI game-changer, facts, headlines and Quote of the Week
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Real AI: AI avatars to attend meetings, AI “good or bad” debate continues, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 23 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. Images are AI + human generated. Will AI avatars attend meetings for you? File this one under "please don't." Sometimes, just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should. Someone needs to tell Google and Zoom that – and pronto! Both firms are working on AI avatars that will attend meetings for us. The initial results are frightening, [...]

By |2024-06-07T08:39:07-07:00June 7th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: AI avatars to attend meetings, AI “good or bad” debate continues, facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: New study claims most don’t use AI tools, Apple’s quiet AI push, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 22 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. Images are AI + human generated. New study claims most don’t use AI tools With all the hype generated by generative AI and ChatGPT's claims of over 180 million users, you would think it is already ubiquitous. Apparently not. At least, that's the reported finding of the latest AI study from the Reuters Institute and Oxford University. While the study [...]

By |2024-06-01T08:58:12-07:00May 31st, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: New study claims most don’t use AI tools, Apple’s quiet AI push, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: Crazy about Canva, AI Newsbytes, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 21 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. Crazy about Canva This is a brief story about the best $10 a month a real estate agent can spend on any marketing tool. Canva was the online design tool that teachers and some real estate agents were raving about back in 2015. For teachers, their accounts were free. It was all WYSIWYG for everyone else – almost the opposite [...]

By |2024-05-23T16:26:58-07:00May 24th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Computer Vision, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Crazy about Canva, AI Newsbytes, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: ChatGPT 4ooooh, Renovation AI, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 20 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly. ChatGPT 4ooooh (my goodness!) Did you see the live stream or video from OpenAI introducing ChatGPT 4o (pronounced “oh”)? The big news: the introduction of omnimodal AI. Oh, and it’s free for everyone (but much faster if you have the paid version and up to five times more capacity than the free version – more than worth the $20-a-month subscription). [...]

By |2024-05-20T08:03:03-07:00May 17th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on REAL AI: ChatGPT 4ooooh, Renovation AI, facts, headlines, and AI quote of the week
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An Unstoppable Legend: Ben Caballero Remains America’s Top-Performing Real Estate Agent

Ben Caballero is an improbable and incomparable real estate legend. How can an individual real estate agent based in Texas sell an average of more than 19 homes daily, every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays? Again, 19 homes a day, times 365 days last year, would be 6,935 home sales. Ben sold 7,012 homes in 2023. He is the sole listing agent on every sale, verified by every Multiple Listing Service he works with in Texas. He does not work with any other agent or team at HomesUSA.com, the brokerage where he also is CEO and founder. [...]

By |2024-05-14T10:40:07-07:00May 13th, 2024|Broker Information, Builder, Builders, Clients, Industry Observations, MLS, Podcast, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized|Comments Off on An Unstoppable Legend: Ben Caballero Remains America’s Top-Performing Real Estate Agent
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Real AI: AI will kill showing traffic, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 19 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting weekly.  AI will kill showing traffic but that’s a good thing The big AI takeaway from the 2024 National Association of Realtors Legislative Meetings (known in the industry as Midyear) held this week in Washington, DC, was an unexpected consequence of AI. This concept materialized during the Q&A at the end of the Emerging Business Issues & Technology Forum, "Integrating AI [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:31:33-07:00May 10th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, RESO, Technology, Virtual Real Estate, Virtual Tours|Comments Off on Real AI: AI will kill showing traffic, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week
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