As the real estate industry continues to evolve, 2025 may mark a significant turning point for brokerage firms across the United States. With shifting market conditions, pressure on buyside commissions, increased operational costs, anti-trust litigation, and the rapid advancement of technology, industry experts predict that a wave of mergers could reshape the brokerage landscape.
By opening the MLS to rental listings, the MLSs can provide a centralized platform of verified listings, enhancing transparency and security for both consumers and real estate professionals.
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 4 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! The state of AI in real estate marketing As artificial intelligence reshapes real estate marketing, at the Inman Connect NY conference this week industry leaders are urging agents to experiment, integrate, and refine their AI use. One standout panel, moderated by Craig Rowe [...]
These partnerships solidify Howard Hanna's commitment to growth and innovation in the real estate industry.
Restb.ai powers computer vision tech for MLSs, reaching over 750,000 real estate agents and brokers nationwide. They've been around longer than just about any AI firm in our space and excel at what they do because of the rule of AI: experience wins. If you have access to automated listings that scan images first to create a listing without inputting anything, or if your property photos are scanned during uploading for potential compliance violations, or if your MLS offers a consumer search experience that uses natural language ("find homes with island kitchens and Wolf stoves"), that's most likely Restb.ai powering [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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 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 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 [...]
