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The coronavirus pushed the real estate industry to innovate at warp-speed, with professionals and companies at all levels releasing cutting-edge products and systems to adapt to a world void of face-to-face communication. Connect Now moderator Kendall Bonner and panelists Rainy Hake Austin and David Walker encouraged agents to keep riding this wave of innovation and learn how to leverage not fear technology.
“I certainly don’t think technology, whether it’s artificial intelligence (AI) or other advanced technologies, replace the human experience,” Hake Austin, president of The Agency said. “But I think they enhance [the human experience] in an interesting way.”
Panelists at Connect Now argued that Compass is going to have to think hard about recruiting, commissions and other issues as it prepares to go public.
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“I swallowed hard when I heard the news,” one agent told us.
For agents, the deal raises concerns about who owns their data, as well as what Zillow has planned for software that many people consider part of their daily toolbox.
At a time when Zillow’s power has never felt more ascendant, that’s just the start of the questions that we’ll have for Zillow’s Errol Samuelson and ShowingTime president Mike Lane, both of whom will take the stage at Inman Connect Now on Thursday.
They’ll face no-holds-barred questions from our own Clelia Peters as well as respond to some of the industry feedback that has surfaced on social media since the deal was announced.