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NAR Midyear: Political advocacy using AI on your smartphone?

  At this year’s NAR Legislative Meetings, well-known REALTOR®, educator, and author Marki Lemons Ryhal offered a new way to use artificial intelligence as a political advocacy engine. She reframed this unconventional use of AI by giving practical examples for brokers, agents, and association staff to engage with AI in scaling their influence. If you’ve been thinking of AI strictly as a marketing or productivity tool, here’s another reason to think outside the standard AI box. Use your content to drive engagement One strategy is deceptively simple: combine a strong call-to-action with your tone and let AI scale it. She [...]

By |2025-06-02T09:35:53-07:00June 2nd, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, NAR, News|1 Comment
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Ben Caballero: Real Estate Titan, Tech Innovator and Texas Legend Sets a New World Record for Home Sales

$27,000,000,000. Nine zeros. That atmospheric number is Iceland's annual GNP. It's also the total homes sales volume real estate titan and Texas legend Ben Caballero of HomesUSA.com did as an individual sales agent over the last two decades (2004-2024). As a solo sales agent for every listing verified by the MLS, Ben averages over $1 billion in home sales annually. Last year, Ben did nearly $4 billion in home sales. Again, that's $4,000,000,000. That's greater than the combined annual GDP of Grenada and St. Lucia! Over seven thousand home sales: one year, one man Ben’s record-breaking billions are only eclipsed [...]

By |2025-05-28T15:09:09-07:00May 29th, 2025|News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Ben Caballero: Real Estate Titan, Tech Innovator and Texas Legend Sets a New World Record for Home Sales
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AI is becoming the Rosetta Stone for real estate data and value insights

As a data junkie, I've often wondered why, in a data-rich industry like real estate, do so many decisions still rely on incomplete or inconsistent information? The answer lies not in a lack of data but in our inability to apply the resources necessary to see what the data shows. That’s where artificial intelligence is beginning to usher in a new era of insight. AI’s most transformative role in our industry may not be content creation, automation, or even marketing. It’s interpretation. It’s AI’s ability to extract, clarify, and illuminate the hidden signals in data that the human eye either [...]

By |2025-05-23T12:10:53-07:00May 26th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on AI is becoming the Rosetta Stone for real estate data and value insights
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How do you get potential sellers to move off the fence?

    Americans are sitting on a record $17 trillion in home equity in the US. According to Cotality, the average homeowner has over $300,000 in wealth locked up in their homes. What if real estate agents could help their potential sellers see how they could increase their net proceeds by $100,000 or more? What if agents could reach out to past clients and "wow" them with a free AI tool that reveals how they can maximize the price of their home by leveraging the newest – and perhaps most powerful way – to sell a home? Research from the [...]

By |2025-05-19T08:30:25-07:00May 19th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on How do you get potential sellers to move off the fence?
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A New Report: Presale renovation is moving from niche to mainstay – and AI is leading the way

Most agents sat on the sidelines when virtual tours made their debut. Now, they are ubiquitous. Back in the mid to late 1990s, when virtual tours were primarily used for luxury listings, they felt clunky and slow, and often required buyers to download special browser plugins just to view a listing. I remember vividly IPIX and its 360 virtual tour tech at the first mainstream Inman Real Estate Connect at the San Francisco Hilton. It wowed the crowd but cost $1000 a tour. Most agents initially looked at virtual tours as a marketing gimmick until around 2010. Fast forward to [...]

By |2025-04-18T12:35:05-07:00April 21st, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Presale Renovation, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on A New Report: Presale renovation is moving from niche to mainstay – and AI is leading the way
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ChatGPT unleashes the AI copyright beast with its new image powers

We've used ChatGPT and ChatGPT Teams to create much of the accompanying artwork for the more than 200 stories I’ve written for our REAL AI weekly newsletter. For a time, Midjourney was our image champ. Then, we discovered some tricks we could do with Canva's AI image generation tools. But now, it’s all ChatGPT: its image generation capabilities just leapfrogged the competition. Upload a photo to render a new image in almost every art style. Social media users are losing their minds over its ability to Studio Ghibli-style capabilities. The demand on ChatGPT has been so massive that its leader [...]

By |2025-04-01T16:14:43-07:00April 2nd, 2025|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on ChatGPT unleashes the AI copyright beast with its new image powers
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NAR Report: Gen X leads in income, Millennials stay mobile, and Gen Z quietly arrives

The 2025 NAR Generational Trends Report from NAR just dropped, and it reads like a family portrait of America in transition. Baby Boomers are moving closer to grandkids, Gen Zers are scurrying to scrape together enough savings to buy their first place, Millennials still buy the most homes, and Boomers are the top home sellers. Here are some things agents will want to know about to better understand the differences in the generations they serve: Gen X makes the most and buys the most expensive homes Buyers aged 49 to 58 now top the income charts, with a median household [...]

By |2025-03-28T09:07:52-07:00April 1st, 2025|Broker-Agent Information, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Research|Comments Off on NAR Report: Gen X leads in income, Millennials stay mobile, and Gen Z quietly arrives
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REAL AI: Turn AI into your daily habit, AI for criminal minds, AI facts, headlines and quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 8 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. WARNING: Beginning in LESS THAN 10 DAYS, on March 3, this content will only be available via our free newsletter, delivered by email every Monday, so please subscribe here! Turn AI into your daily habit CoreLogic’s Clareity25 MLS confab in the Arizona desert, attended by many industry leaders, just concluded. But unlike most real estate conferences, AI never really took center [...]

By |2025-02-21T08:10:06-08:00February 21st, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on REAL AI: Turn AI into your daily habit, AI for criminal minds, AI facts, headlines and quote of the week
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AI will you be mine, AI makes free art but the legal rulings start, AI facts, AI headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 7 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. WARNING: Beginning March 3, this content will only be available via our free newsletter, delivered by email every Monday, so please subscribe here! AI, will you be mine? Are AI companions infiltrating Valentine’s Day? The statistics say absolutely: one in four young adults think AI boyfriends and girlfriends could replace real-life romance. AI companion apps are booming, with industry researchers expecting [...]

By |2025-02-13T17:00:31-08:00February 14th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on AI will you be mine, AI makes free art but the legal rulings start, AI facts, AI headlines and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: ChatGPT yourself, the latest AI newsbites, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 6 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. Note: This content will soon only be available via our free newsletter, delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! ChatGPT yourself For years, we've recommended that you "Google yourself" to see what the world's largest search engine says about you. What does Google say about you? Today, it may be far more crucial to "ChatGPT yourself," your company, and your products and [...]

By |2025-02-07T09:42:48-08:00February 7th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on REAL AI: ChatGPT yourself, the latest AI newsbites, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: Real estate is an AI leader, What’s next, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 5 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. Note: This content will soon only be available via our free newsletter, delivered every Monday. Please subscribe here! Delta AI Survey: Real estate is an AI leader   Real estate has been a notorious tech lagger for decades. Despite millions in VC funds pumped into the category, widespread adoption of new tech by real estate agents has always been elusive. In [...]

By |2025-02-03T09:22:10-08:00January 31st, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Industry Observations, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Suveys and Research|Comments Off on REAL AI: Real estate is an AI leader, What’s next, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
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REAL AI: State of AI in real estate marketing, AI agents for agents, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week

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 [...]

By |2025-01-27T12:07:30-08:00January 24th, 2025|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on REAL AI: State of AI in real estate marketing, AI agents for agents, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
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