The COVID-19 pandemic, stay-at-home orders and limitations to in-person activity greatly increased technology adoption in all facets of life. For the real estate industry, COVID-19 may have led to increased tech acceleration, but technology was already reshaping the industry even before the pandemic struck.
Rich Barton | Photo credit: Zillow Group
“Across every industry, there has been a COVID-catalyzed and dramatic increase and reliance upon and adoption of technology,” Barton said. “The concrete is setting on new digital habits for life and work, and it is highly unlikely that we go back to the old analog ways.”
In the real estate technology space, COVID-19 wasn’t the only story, but it was clearly the dominant one. Here, below, are the top industry tech stories both paramedic-related, and not of 2020.