The problem with tech & real estate
I am writing this post with a different audience in mind this time, this post is written to my fellow real estate practioners. I am writing this post to bring awareness to a disturbing trend that I have noticed for quite some time. The trend that I am speaking of is the involement of tech in the real estate industry, there are those that will say that tech has been in the real estate industry for decades. They would be correct, now let me say this right up front. I am not against tech, I actually utilize quite a bit of tech in my business. What I am speaking of is the trend of tech/tech companies coming in and pushing out the real estate agent. Here are a few examples: First off we have Redfin who started out like Zillow, Realtor.com and Trulia and now they have a Brokerage side to their business now and are directly competing with Brokers/Agents using the information that we provided to them. Now they leverage that information to procure buyers and sellers themselves. Zillow takes ...