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WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
2d ago
While supply is still limited and approximately ¼ of homes are still receiving multiple offers, homeowners are still hesitant. They do not believe there is enough demand for their home to warrant selling it.
Here’s one simple way to counter that belief and demonstrate strong home buyer interest.
Using the weekly ListTrac report available through participating MLS markets, it is easy to visually demonstrate where buyer interest is highest by looking at the weekly ListTrac views by price point information.
In the attached example, you can see that homes retailing between $200,000 and $400,000 ar ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
5d ago
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 12
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 weekly.
Does AI have a gender problem?
As a long-time advocate of gender parity, an email in my inbox this week from Laura Meli with Girls Who Code asked this question as its subject line: “Is AI another boys’ club?”
The email immediately notes that technological innovation and progress demand diverse perspectives, adding,
“This is especially true in the field of artificial in ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
1w ago
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 11
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 weekly.
How current are the Chatbots ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Pi?
A client recently asked what seemed to be a pretty straightforward question about AI chatbots.
“What is the most accurate and up-to-date AI engine available for content?”
The truth is there is no easy answer to this question.
First, the leading Chatbots continually improve through iteration and new training data ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
2w ago
I think we can all agree at this point that keeping up with technological advancements is no longer a choice but a necessity for success. However, amid the excitement of embracing new technologies, the practical application often gets overlooked. This oversight can hinder agents from leveraging technology to its full potential, especially when it comes to optimizing the sales process.
A recent nationwide survey conducted by the WAV Group Customer Experience Index shed light on a pivotal aspect of agent training – 63% of respondents expressed a keen interest in training that specifically focuse ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
2w ago
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 10
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 weekly.
AI ads are coming
My first journalism boss was the late, great Jeffery Weiss, managing editor at the Miami Hurricane, our University of Miami newspaper that was printed at the Miami Herald back in the day.
Jeffery had two signs on his desk – a desk that was stacked with piles of papers a foot high covering the entire top of his workspace. The first sign read: “The sign of an ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
3w ago
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 9
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.
Why manners matter with ChatGPT
Since I (Kevin) started my paid ChatGPT subscription the day after Valentine’s Day last year (Feb. 15, 2023), I’ve been using ChatGPT in some way almost daily. Yesterday, I uploaded a PDF of a menu in French and received a translation in English that was nearly perfect.
One of the best things about being an early tech ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
3w ago
The MLS industry’s big buzz this week is CoreLogic announcement that 20-year real estate industry veteran Kevin Greene will head up its Real Estate Solutions Division as Executive, General Manager. It has been great to watch Kevin’s success at CoreLogic, and I look forward to watching him lead one of the largest real estate technology and data companies on the planet. CoreLogic has multiple products that serve more than a million professionals. It’s a big job.
The news came as MLS leaders gathered in the desert in Scottsdale, Arizona, for CoreLogic’s Clareity24 Workshop – an invitation ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
1M ago
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 8
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.
Will AI fix the real estate video conundrum?
Since the debut of YouTube in 2005, real estate agents have been inundated with the message that video is perhaps the single most powerful marketing tool available. Since then, as a recent review of a video platform by Inman’s Craig Rowe points out, the adoption of video as part of most agents’ marketing arsenal ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
1M ago
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 7
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.
ChatGPT is adding a memory feature
OpenAI revealed this week that it is testing a new memory feature for ChatGPT. The goal is a more personalized and valuable experience without providing expert prompts for ChatGPT to remember any previous prompts or stay within the same prompt set.
A key new feature of this potentially potent addition is that you can cont ..read more
WAV Group Consulting » Real Estate Technology
1M ago
Generally, technology solutions for real estate and mortgage professionals are separate siloed solutions that are not connected in the service of the real estate consumer. When a homebuyer is working with an agent to find a home, and a loan officer to find financing, the only collaboration between the two might be email.
The real estate and mortgage industries share a common challenge: 82% of past clients do not use their loan officer or realtor in a future transaction. The primary reason is that the relationship breaks up after the closing as determined by surveys and interviews from th ..read more