Real estate has been asking the wrong question about AI. The displacement is not coming for licensed agents first. It is already gutting the informal pipeline that produced the industry's most prepared new agents.
Real estate has been asking the wrong question about AI. The displacement is not coming for licensed agents first. It is already gutting the informal pipeline that produced the industry's most prepared new agents.
Read →Most brand investments produce very little because the people making them skip the strategic foundation and go straight to the visual execution. The sequence is the whole problem.
Read →Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is the most useful framework available for understanding why the housing market keeps producing outcomes nobody says they want. Required reading for real estate professionals, regardless of political leanings.
Read →Rubin spent forty years producing records. The Creative Act reflects that experience obliquely, through philosophy rather than evidence. Best read in short sessions as a daily companion, not finished in a sitting. 5.4/10.
Read →Coyle documented how elite teams build culture through years of embedded reporting. Every story is told from the leader's perspective. The book cannot tell you what it feels like to be on the receiving end. 6.8/10.
Read →Lower interest rates reduce monthly payments. In a supply-constrained market, higher demand bids up prices to absorb that relief. The Fed can change what buyers afford to carry each month. It cannot build homes.
Read →When people say they want housing prices to fall, they mean they want access. Those are different problems with different solutions, and the political conversation has been conflating them for thirty years.
Read →Newport correctly identifies pseudo-productivity as the knowledge worker disease. His prescriptions assume autonomy that most workers embedded in organizations do not have. A useful vision and an impractical manual. 7.3/10.
Read →Automated traffic now accounts for 51% of all web traffic. Organic reach is below 3%. The acquisition model most agents built their business on is broken. What remains is a credibility checkpoint.
Read →Real estate self-selects for relational people. Left unexamined, that same trait becomes the single biggest obstacle to building a business that lasts.
Read →The NAR settlement gave buyers every tool they needed to stop paying buyer agents. More than 90 percent of them paid anyway. That result is not a data point. It is a verdict.
Read →82% of real estate agents use AI. 17% report it is actually working. The gap is the entire story. AI is the new electricity. Treating it like a widget is the most expensive mistake an agent can make right now.
Read →CCP is dead. Agents killed it. The industry needs to stop performing the resuscitation and start asking the harder regulatory question.
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