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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 |2026-08-19T19:10:25-07:00August 19th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence|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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Inside AI – Episode 4 with Drew Fabrikant: When AI agents start talking to each other

Don’t miss: Inside AI Episode 4: Drew Fabrikant, CEO and Founder of Scout, explains what real estate should be preparing for next About 18 months ago, Drew Fabrikant told me something I thought was completely insane. He predicted that his bot would eventually talk to my bot. They would have conversations, exchange information and then report back to us about what they had discussed. I told him it was never going to happen. I was wrong. Fabrikant is the founder and CEO of Scout, an AI-powered platform that helps real estate professionals find the right people, identify signals that they [...]

By |2026-08-10T11:17:37-07:00August 5th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 4 with Drew Fabrikant: When AI agents start talking to each other
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Inside AI – Episode 3 with Ashley Fidler: The biggest AI mistake real estate companies are making

The biggest AI mistake real estate companies are making has nothing to do with choosing the wrong technology. It happens earlier, when leaders decide they need AI before deciding what they actually need AI to do. That mistake becomes far more amplified with agentic AI: technology that can take actions on a user’s behalf. Give a person the wrong permission, and the damage may be limited by how quickly that person can act. Give an AI system the same permission, and it can move at lightning speed, touch thousands of records and multiply the risk before anyone realizes what happened. [...]

By |2026-07-16T18:52:35-07:00July 16th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 3 with Ashley Fidler: The biggest AI mistake real estate companies are making
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Inside AI – Episode 2 with Dan Troup: Why the future of home search will look very different

Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every corner of real estate. But what happens when AI is used to rethink one of the industry's most familiar experiences: searching for a home? That's the focus of Episode 2 of Inside AI hosted by me, The REAL AI Guy, a new interview series that gives real estate professionals an insider's look at the people shaping AI across the industry. Through candid conversations with technology leaders, innovators and executives, this new one-on-one interview series cuts through the hype to explore what's working today, what's changing tomorrow and what agents, brokers, MLSs and associations need [...]

By |2026-07-01T10:58:25-07:00July 1st, 2026|AI & Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Broker Public Portal, Technology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Inside AI – Episode 2 with Dan Troup: Why the future of home search will look very different
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Clareity26: An industry in motion, not in transition

Clareity26 didn’t feel like a conference about change. It felt like a conference inside of change. More than 200 MLS executives, brokers, and industry leaders gathered in Tucson with a shared understanding that the rules are shifting in real time. From AI adoption and cybersecurity threats to private listings and legal pressure, the conversations weren’t about what might happen next. They were about what’s happening now. This was also the final Clareity Workshop after a 24-year run. That added weight to every discussion. This wasn’t just another event. It was a moment of reflection for an industry that is being [...]

By |2026-04-03T06:37:07-07:00April 3rd, 2026|Business Intelligence, Conferences, MLS, PropTech, Real Estate Events, Real Estate Technology, Technology, WAV Group Research|Comments Off on Clareity26: An industry in motion, not in transition
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Top AI Survey of Real Estate Leaders Shows AI Moving from Agent Adoption to Brokerages Creating Safe Infrastructure

By Kevin Hawkins Artificial intelligence did not enter real estate through formal brokerage rollouts. It entered agent by agent. What began as individual experimentation by these independent contractors in 2023 has now become nearly universal agent usage across the brokerages that drive most U.S. transaction volume.  The latest Delta Media Real Estate Leadership AI Survey shows the industry has crossed an important threshold. 97% of brokerage leaders surveyed said their agents use AI. AI adoption is no longer the challenge. Broker responsibility is. Delta Created Real Estate’s Benchmark AI Survey  Now in its third consecutive year, the Delta Media AI [...]

By |2026-01-30T10:24:00-08:00January 30th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on Top AI Survey of Real Estate Leaders Shows AI Moving from Agent Adoption to Brokerages Creating Safe Infrastructure
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Shadow AI is one of real estate’s biggest hidden risks

By Kevin Hawkins Brokerages, MLSs, and Associations may not see it, but their agents are already using it. It’s called Shadow AI. These are unapproved generative AI tools like ChatGPT, image and video generators, and other apps, most often free, that agents use to support their business without any oversight. While today’s leadership is focusing on AI strategy, policy, and systems, Shadow AI is already active inside their organizations. And just because these tools are invisible to leadership doesn’t mean they’re harmless. Shadow AI can expose client data, violate copyright, trigger fair housing violations, and compromise your brand’s trust. What [...]

By |2026-01-26T12:57:59-08:00January 26th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, MLS, Real Estate Technology|Comments Off on Shadow AI is one of real estate’s biggest hidden risks
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NAR Report: Americans are buying homes farther from work and waiting longer to do it

When did “location, location, location” stop meaning “close to work”? According to the NAR's just-released 2025 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, the number of buyers who cited proximity to their job as a top factor in choosing their neighborhood has dropped to just 31%. That’s nearly half the share from 2014, when it was 52%. It’s a striking reversal, given that many employers have tightened their return-to-office policies over the past year. So, what’s really going on here? The great reshuffle is aging, literally It turns out today’s homebuyers are the oldest in modern history. The median age hit [...]

By |2025-11-11T12:23:17-08:00November 11th, 2025|Reports, Research, Uncategorized|Comments Off on NAR Report: Americans are buying homes farther from work and waiting longer to do it
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