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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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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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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Real AI: Survey reveals real estate’s heavy use of AI, fast facts, five headlines, and a Quote of the Week

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 3 Real AI is a 100% human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday. AI survey reveals real estate’s heavy use, wide adoption A brand new study from real estate tech leader Delta Media shows the popularity and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in real estate has become nearly ubiquitous among America's leading real estate brokerages. Today, 75% of America's real estate brokerages already use AI technology, and almost 80% [...]

By |2024-05-13T13:54:32-07:00January 19th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Broker Information, Broker-Agent Information, Communications and PR, Computer Vision, Industry Observations, News, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Suveys and Research, Technology, Thought Leadership|Comments Off on Real AI: Survey reveals real estate’s heavy use of AI, fast facts, five headlines, and a Quote of the Week
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Webinar: Creating an M&A Brokerage Strategy

WAV Group held a well-attended webinar last week on how to acquire real estate firms and creating a successful M&A Strategy. The panelists included: Larry Rideout, Chairman of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty, Victor Lund, Founding Partner, WAV Group, and George Slusser who leads our M&A Advisory Division.

By |2021-05-04T11:16:04-07:00May 4th, 2021|Mergers & Acquisitions, Webinars|Comments Off on Webinar: Creating an M&A Brokerage Strategy
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Looking for an effective and affordable way to increase your site traffic by as much as 20%?

I just saw a demo of something that is affordable but has been proven to drive up site traffic by as much as 20%. And it does not require any site re-design or major overhaul!

By |2021-04-12T15:39:52-07:00April 14th, 2021|Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Culture, Technology|Comments Off on Looking for an effective and affordable way to increase your site traffic by as much as 20%?
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TAKING BACK CONTROL: Top Real Estate Teams Ditch the Big Portals for Their Own Branded Google PPC and Social Media Lead Generation Campaigns

The biggest and most successful agents and teams are reclaiming control of their own brand and marketing by working with real estate focused digital marketing companies like Ylopo. 

By |2020-12-09T11:56:46-08:00December 9th, 2020|Broker-Agent Information, Technology|Comments Off on TAKING BACK CONTROL: Top Real Estate Teams Ditch the Big Portals for Their Own Branded Google PPC and Social Media Lead Generation Campaigns
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WAV Group Broker Transaction Management Adoption Study

Brokers – please take this survey. MLSs and an AORs – we ask you to send this survey link to your brokers. Thank you for your support with this mission-critical research on the marketplace. The survey results will be available for download here on WAV Group this fall.

By |2020-09-30T08:47:46-07:00September 29th, 2020|Broker Technology Research, Our Services, Suveys and Research, WAV Group Research|Comments Off on WAV Group Broker Transaction Management Adoption Study
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Lone Wolf Launches Title Product in All States

In a press release, Lone Wolf recognizes their partnership with RamQuest, an Austin based title insurance company and settlement service that operates under the product name of Closing Market in all 50 states of the United States of America. RamQuest’s Closing Market is also a marketplace that has 56 partners today. In this case, Lone Wolf Marketplace is like eBay connecting to Amazon – marketplace connecting to marketplace.

By |2020-05-26T11:54:01-07:00May 26th, 2020|Broker Technology Research, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Lone Wolf Launches Title Product in All States
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Lone Wolf Launches New Technology Marketplace

Lone Wolf Technologies, owned by America’s fourth largest software company, Vista Equity Partners, has released a technology marketplace that will be made available through (Instanet) TransactionDesk and (zipLogix) zipForm® Plus transaction management and forms management solutions today.

By |2020-05-18T10:08:35-07:00May 11th, 2020|Broker Technology Research, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Lone Wolf Launches New Technology Marketplace
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Brokers Have Three Choices for Handling iBuyer Objections

Brokers who are ignoring iBuyer are making a big mistake. If iBuyers exist in your market, it’s time to develop a strategy today. Do not let your opinion of the long-term viability of the iBuyer discourage your actions.

By |2019-09-19T09:14:07-07:00September 19th, 2019|Broker-Agent Information, Sales Advisory|Comments Off on Brokers Have Three Choices for Handling iBuyer Objections
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Why are MLSs making it SO hard to innovate?

Our industry needs to find meaningful ways to support new thinking and innovation. I recently put myself in the shoes of a start-up and found out just how difficult it REALLY is to leverage MLS information.    We have made it REALLY hard for the smart 16 year old in her garage to build the next big thing for a brokerage.  Frankly, even well-established tech companies have major challenges working with more than 600 organizations.  Refer to my commonapp article for more on that topic. Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a tech start-up. They have built something interesting. [...]

By |2018-11-27T12:06:58-08:00November 27th, 2018|Uncategorized|10 Comments
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