AI Has Created the Biggest Broker-Supervision Risk in Real Estate History
Real estate brokers have never carried this much responsibility for technology they did not select, approve, or even know their agents were using.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The MLS Don’t Want AI Training on Data, But It Happens Every Day
AI browser assistants can now access MLS information through an agent’s authenticated session, creating a data exposure channel that traditional licensing agreements and security controls were never designed to govern. Here’s why MLSs and brokerages need to rethink AI data access — and why governed infrastructure may be more effective than trying to block it.
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 [...]
WAV Group Broker Sentiment Survey: One Broker Saved $100,000 in a year with AI.
Nearly 6 in 10 of brokers said embracing AI is extremely or very important to the continued success of their brokerage, while another 29% said it is somewhat important. Only 7% said AI is not important. Brokers clearly understand the stakes. They do not need to be convinced that AI is going to affect their business. They are already trying to figure out how to use it well enough, safely enough, and strategically enough to create a real advantage.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Art of the CMA Returns with a New Playbook for the AI Era
The second edition of The Art of the CMA gives real estate agents and brokers a modern playbook for winning listings in the AI era. Greg Robertson and Charles Warnock explore how better technology, stronger valuation strategies and distinctly human skills can help agents turn market data into clarity, trust and client value.
BoldTrail BackOffice Adds AI-Powered Compliance Reviews for Real Estate Transactions
Inside Real Estate is bringing AI-powered compliance reviews directly into BoldTrail BackOffice. Developed with SetWave, ComplianceAI can help brokerage teams identify missing forms, signatures, initials and inconsistent transaction information earlier in the process—while keeping supervising brokers in control of final compliance decisions.
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 [...]
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 [...]