A conversation with Brad Inman and RFK Jr. – A Key Highlight of the Inman Connect Conference

As the current chair of the National Small Business Association, the oldest non-partisan small business advocacy organization in the U.S., I was thrilled to see RFK Jr. express so much passion to provide support for small businesses to make it easier for all of us to survive and thrive. So, what did I learn from this fascinating session?  It’s truly hard to summarize it, but I’ll highlight some of the points that stuck out the most for me.

By |2024-08-06T06:00:16-07:00August 6th, 2024|Bills and Policies, Industry Observations, MLS, News, Thought Leadership|1 Comment
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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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VestaPlus™ and Staten Island Board of REALTORS® Collaborate to Propel Real Estate Data Compliance with Checkmate™

With the removal of compensation from the mls. Data quality is becoming an even more important benefit of MLSs. It’s not enough to just let your MLS customers self report on issues. MLSs need to consistently curate more comprehensive, accurate and timely real estate data insights to reinforce their core value proposition

By |2024-07-15T16:21:18-07:00July 16th, 2024|Announcements, MLS, News|Comments Off on VestaPlus™ and Staten Island Board of REALTORS® Collaborate to Propel Real Estate Data Compliance with Checkmate™
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MLS Tech Goes Global: Arab MLS Sees Growth and Expansion with CoreLogic Matrix Rollout

The visionary leaders at Arab MLS, led by founder Ahmed Elbatrawy, are delivering sophisticated business solutions to real estate professionals and transforming home buying and selling in Arab nations. A cornerstone of Arab MLS’s business solutions is CoreLogic’s Matrix, the No. 1 listing management platform in North America. Now expanding into the Middle East, including Egypt and the UAE, Matrix offers Arab MLS real estate professionals—for the first time—a single source of truth property record database and more effective land record management. Core MLS listing input and search functionality, data syndication, client portal, statistics, and market analysis are all provided, [...]

By |2024-06-10T07:39:07-07:00June 10th, 2024|MLS, News, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on MLS Tech Goes Global: Arab MLS Sees Growth and Expansion with CoreLogic Matrix Rollout
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Real AI: AI’s sophomore slump, 5 great ChatGPT party tricks, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 13  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. Welcome to AI’s sophomore slump Earlier this week, the headlines warned, "It's not just you: ChatGPT is down for many worldwide.” For those who rely on ChatGPT for work assistance, having your AI offline can be frightful. It's sort of like misplacing your iPhone: you go into a panic until it is found. How many times do you refresh your [...]

By |2024-05-10T10:55:10-07:00March 29th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI’s sophomore slump, 5 great ChatGPT party tricks, headlines, fast facts and AI quote of the week
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Real AI: The magic of the prompt, AI dominates Connect NY, facts, headlines and the Quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 4 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 a new edition every Friday. The magic of the prompt There’s a secret to maximizing the effectiveness of generative AI that every real estate practitioner who uses AI must know above all else: the key to unlocking the best AI has to offer is in your prompts. This is a universal AI truth. It does not matter if you are using [...]

By |2024-05-13T13:53:45-07:00January 26th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Broker Information, Broker-Agent Information, Communications and PR, Computer Vision, Industry Observations, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Suveys and Research, Technology, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on Real AI: The magic of the prompt, AI dominates Connect NY, facts, headlines and the Quote of the week
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Real AI: Survey reveals real estate’s heavy use of AI, fast facts, five headlines, and a Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 3 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 a new edition every Friday. AI survey reveals real estate’s heavy use, wide adoption A brand new study from real estate tech leader Delta Media shows the popularity and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in real estate has become nearly ubiquitous among America's leading real estate brokerages. Today, 75% of America's real estate brokerages already use AI technology, and almost 80% [...]

By |2024-05-13T13:54:32-07:00January 19th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Broker Information, Broker-Agent Information, Communications and PR, Computer Vision, Industry Observations, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Suveys and Research, Technology, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on Real AI: Survey reveals real estate’s heavy use of AI, fast facts, five headlines, and a Quote of the Week
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Real AI: Fannie Mae embraces CV, Claude.ai gets better, AI facts and top headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 15 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 a new edition every Friday. Fannie Mae embraces computer vision Craig Rowe at Inman News did a solid job with his recent piece on Fannie Mae embracing AI and computer vision or CV. It’s important because when Fannie Mae makes a move, the mortgage industry follows. In June, Fannie Mae announced the use of "image recognition" to detect incorrect quality and [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:41:30-07:00December 1st, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, News, PropTech, Research|Comments Off on Real AI: Fannie Mae embraces CV, Claude.ai gets better, AI facts and top headlines
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Real AI: AI Turbo-powered, new AI research and top AI headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 13 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 a new edition every Friday. GPT-4 Turbo: What real estate pros need to know Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, during its first in-person developer event, launched a more powerful AI model dubbed GPT-4 Turbo, currently in Beta, among other advances. What will these AI improvements do? GPT-4 Turbo is said to be a smarter model than ChatGPT-4. It will let [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:43:39-07:00November 17th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, MLS, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Real AI: AI Turbo-powered, new AI research and top AI headlines
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Real AI: AI and driverless cars (or not), AI fast facts and top AI headlines

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 12 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 a new edition every Friday. AI and driverless cars: Is AI failing the trust test? Cruise, the autonomous taxi firm backed by GM, is in trouble, The Hustle reports. This is despite the announcement by GM a couple of weeks ago that it is partnering with Honda to launch its robotaxi service in Japan by 2026. Cruise also plans to expand [...]

By |2024-05-14T14:44:59-07:00November 10th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|Comments Off on Real AI: AI and driverless cars (or not), AI fast facts and top AI headlines
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Remembering LA Times reporter Dave Myers

The caller ID on my cell displayed the name of a friend of 30+ years who calls randomly, and I always answer. This time, the news was unfortunately sad. A friend and business colleague we had known for decades had passed away. Dave Myers, former real estate reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died at 62 years young. Another dear reporter friend, Ralph Bivins, editor of Realty News Report, noted that Dave shared in Pulitzer Prize wins for team coverage of the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Dave Myers with NAREE friends on a trip to Napa [...]

By |2023-10-13T11:39:24-07:00September 25th, 2023|Industry Observations, News|6 Comments
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