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Five remarkable trends from NAR’s 2026 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers

By Kevin Hawkins The American dream of homeownership is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. The exceptions are if you already own a home or have access to family wealth. When you go beyond the headlines announcing today's release of the National Association of Realtors' 2026 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, five remarkable trends jump out. Perhaps my favorite NAR research effort, the comprehensive 122-page report provides a fascinating look at how Americans buy and sell homes. This year's findings reveal a housing market increasingly shaped by cash buyers, inherited wealth, longer homeownership and the enormous challenges facing first-time buyers. [...]

By |2026-11-05T07:11:10-08:00November 5th, 2026|Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on Five remarkable trends from NAR’s 2026 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers
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Inside AI – Episode 10 with Dominik Pogorzelski: Is AI Moving Too Fast for Real Estate?

What happens when one of the real estate industry's early AI pioneers says artificial intelligence may be moving too fast for its own good? That's one of the most interesting moments in my latest Inside AI conversation with Dominik Pogorzelski, President, MLS at Restb.ai. His prediction about the future of agentic AI is remarkably candid: "I think it'll get crazy before it settles down." Coming from someone who has spent nearly a decade helping bring artificial intelligence into real estate, that observation deserves our attention. Restb.ai is marking an unusual milestone in the world of AI: it's in its 10th [...]

By |2026-10-27T09:15:35-07:00October 28th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Inside AI|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 10 with Dominik Pogorzelski: Is AI Moving Too Fast for Real Estate?
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Should you use an app to score a news release?

If an app tells you a news release is propaganda, should you trust the score, or should you first ask who is scoring the scorer? Industry analyst Mike DelPrete recently promoted his new Propaganda.app after using it to score more than 70 real estate press releases for “spin.” His email does not say that he built the app, but in a LinkedIn post, DelPrete says, “I’ve built an app” to identify spin in real estate news and press releases. His argument is compelling on the surface: Companies use news releases to persuade, journalists sometimes repeat corporate claims without verification and [...]

By |2026-10-07T08:41:35-07:00October 7th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Press Releases|Comments Off on Should you use an app to score a news release?
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Inside AI – Episode 8 with Zach Gorman – Where Does AI Go Next?

Don’t miss our latest video – Inside AI Episode 8 with Zach Gorman, co-founder of RealReports. What if we have been thinking too small about AI in real estate? For the last few years, much of the AI conversation for real estate agents has centered on saving time. Write my listing description. Draft this email. Summarize these documents. Create a social post. Those are valuable uses, and when you add up all those little time savings, they can make a meaningful difference in an agent’s day. But Zach Gorman, co-founder of RealReports, is pushing the conversation somewhere else. During my [...]

By |2026-09-29T15:44:43-07:00September 30th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Inside AI|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 8 with Zach Gorman – Where Does AI Go Next?
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NAR study: More than half of Realtors are not using AI regularly

If AI is becoming such an important part of real estate, why are more than half of Realtors still not using it regularly? That may be the most important question buried inside the National Association of Realtors’ new 2026 Realtors Technology Report. The good news is that AI adoption is clearly accelerating. The more complicated story is that there is still a massive gap between trying AI and making it part of the way agents work every day. NAR found that 23% of Realtors use AI daily and another 25% use it weekly. That means 52% are not using AI [...]

By |2026-09-22T14:16:57-07:00September 22nd, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Research|Comments Off on NAR study: More than half of Realtors are not using AI regularly
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Inside AI – Episode 7 with Summer Goralik – Your AI agent can’t get a real estate license. But you can lose yours.

Don’t miss our latest video – Inside AI Episode 7 with Summer Goralik, a leading expert on AI and real estate compliance. AI is getting better at doing things on behalf of real estate agents, and that is exactly where the legal questions begin. Once an AI system starts communicating with consumers, interpreting information, giving advice or taking action on your behalf, it may be moving into activity that requires a real estate license. The problem is simple: AI cannot get one. That creates a problem the industry has barely begun to address. As AI moves from generating content to [...]

By |2026-10-06T10:48:34-07:00September 16th, 2026|Inside AI|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 7 with Summer Goralik – Your AI agent can’t get a real estate license. But you can lose yours.
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Inside AI – Episode 6 with Justin Lundy – The AI inflection point: When AI stops answering and starts doing

Don’t miss: Inside AI Episode 6: Justin Lundy, founder and CEO of Lundy, explains what happens when AI becomes the front door to the technology agents use every day For years, real estate professionals have complained about having too many technology tools. Your MLS gives you one set. Your brokerage gives you another. Your coach tells you that you need three more. Then you add your own CRM, transaction management platform, forms software, email, calendar, CMA system and whatever else makes your business work. Justin Lundy knows that problem firsthand because he lived it as a real estate agent. At [...]

By |2026-10-06T10:47:22-07:00September 2nd, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Inside AI|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 6 with Justin Lundy – The AI inflection point: When AI stops answering and starts doing
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Inside AI – Episode 5 with Sam DeBord: When AI agents start talking to each other

Don’t miss: Inside AI Episode 5: Sam DeBord, CEO of RESO, explains why AI needs a common language for real estate For years, I’ve heard people in real estate complain about siloed technology. Tools that agents use don’t talk to each other making repetitive entry of data the standard. Along came RESO, the Real Estate Standards Organization, and things began to change. The data standards they created enable technology to finally speak the same language. Now AI comes along, and suddenly there’s a new version of that argument: If artificial intelligence can understand almost anything, why do we still need [...]

By |2026-10-06T10:46:26-07:00August 19th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Inside AI|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 5 with Sam DeBord: When AI agents start talking to each other
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Ben Caballero: An unstoppable decade at the top of real estate

Ten years. Nearly 60,000 homes. $26.6 billion in sales. Those are not Ben Caballero’s career totals. Those are his numbers for the last decade alone. It is hard to describe what Ben, founder and CEO of HomesUSA.com, has accomplished without sounding like you are exaggerating. His numbers feel less like real estate production and more like a math problem someone made up. But every sale is real, every listing is tied to Ben as the individual sell-side agent, and every transaction is audited and verified through the Multiple Listing Services where he works. From 2016 through 2025, Ben individually sold [...]

By |2026-08-19T19:50:18-07:00August 19th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on Ben Caballero: An unstoppable decade at the top of real estate
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Just because your AI agent can do something doesn’t mean it should

A guy asks his AI agent to get him into a sold-out exercise class. Pretty harmless assignment, right? Not exactly. Using vibe coding and a Claude-powered AI agent, an Australian guy set it up to automatically book his fitness classes. When the AI agent failed to move him off the waitlist through normal means, it discovered a vulnerability in the gym's tech system and used it to cancel other gym users’ reservations to free up spots. The agent had not been asked to hack anything or interfere with another member. But it wanted to find a way – any way [...]

By |2026-08-17T08:45:42-07:00August 16th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence|Comments Off on Just because your AI agent can do something doesn’t mean it should
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More from Ai4: The legends of AI uncork the good, bad and ugly of AI today and tomorrow

What happens when three founders of modern artificial intelligence sit down together and discover they don’t agree on where it is taking us? That was the extraordinary moment at Ai4 when Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng shared the stage for a conversation that ranged from runaway AI agents and job destruction to education, regulation, open models and whether AI’s biggest impact could ultimately be curing disease or eliminating illiteracy. These weren’t three AI commentators speculating from the sidelines. Hinton helped lay the foundations for modern neural networks and received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work [...]

By |2026-08-11T09:22:29-07:00August 11th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Conferences, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on More from Ai4: The legends of AI uncork the good, bad and ugly of AI today and tomorrow
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Ai4: Would you trust a brilliant teenager to run your business?

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes smart enough to do more than answer questions, but still lacks the judgment to know when it is making a terrible decision? That was one of the most memorable themes from Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at Cisco, during his Ai4 keynote conversation last week. Patel compared today’s AI agents to teenagers: highly intelligent, fearless about consequences and occasionally capable of remarkably poor judgment. It was funny because it was instantly relatable, but it was also one of the clearest explanations I have heard of the risk facing companies as AI moves [...]

By |2026-08-10T11:16:10-07:00August 10th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Conferences, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Ai4: Would you trust a brilliant teenager to run your business?
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