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1 10, 2011

WAV Group Week in Review October 2 2011

By |2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00October 1st, 2011|Main category|0 Comments

Arizona Association of REALTORS® refocuses its attention on ARBI – Arizona REALTOR® Business Interface which puts MLS, Document Management and a bunch of resources all on one page. The AZMLS Statewide MLS has found new life. No acquisition of ARMLS for now, but MLS partners are aligning to get it done. Perhaps ARMLS will simply move from first to “maybe a little later on.” WAV Group released a new whitepaper in an ongoing series about the Shift in Real Estate for brokers and agents. In the first paper released in June, we looked at the shift happening in enterprise broker [...]

18 09, 2011

WAV Group Week in Review September 18 2011

By |2018-05-03T21:25:28-07:00September 18th, 2011|Main category, MLS Insights|0 Comments

The predominant buzz in real estate this week was focused on successful and unsuccessful buyouts. On the successful side of buyouts, a talented team of managing executives from LPS was able to complete a buyout of non-MLS products and form a new company called RED, an acronym for Real Estate Digital. In a more straightforward buyout, CoreLogic purchased MLS provider Tarasoft, rolling that system under their Marketlinx brand. On the unsuccessful side of buyouts, the Arizona State Association of REALTORS was unsuccessful in its bid to purchase the shares of ARMLS, its first leg in a course to develop a [...]

10 09, 2011

WAV Group Week in Review September 10 2011

By |2018-05-03T21:25:29-07:00September 10th, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Main category, MLS Insights, Press Releases|0 Comments

In real estate technology this week, there were two announcements that caught our attention regarding Automated Valuations (AVM). Trulia launched Trulia Estimates, their version of property valuations for consumers that competes with public website rival, Zillow  and Zestimates. Along the same lines, CoreLogic announced this week that they have licensed more than 1 million active property listings from MLSs through their Partner InfoNet program (PIN) powering their institutional AVM products. CoreLogic is in a race with NAR’s initiative called Realtors Property Resource or RPR. Lender Processing Service (LPS) licenses active listing data from RPR to power their commercial AVM product. [...]

23 02, 2024

Real AI: The coming AI real estate video revolution, A look at Sora, facts, headlines and an AI Quote of the Week

By |2024-03-18T12:52:42-07:00February 23rd, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology, Video|0 Comments

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 [...]

9 02, 2024

Real AI: An AI stock photos platform, AI disclosure efforts gain Google, facts, headlines and the Quote of the week

By |2024-03-18T12:50:58-07:00February 9th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 6 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. An AI stock photos platform We have covered that AI-generated photos could save agents and brokers a lot of money in licensing fees. Creating AI images for a website, social post, or promotional brochure instead of paying a fee to Adobe or iStock seems like a no-brainer. This is even though the stock photo firms are [...]

2 02, 2024

Real AI: Combating lazy AI, Bard Art, facts, headlines, and the Quote of the week

By |2024-03-18T12:50:35-07:00February 2nd, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Broker-Agent Information, Conferences, Industry Observations, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Technology|0 Comments

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 5 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. Combating AI laziness How often have you had to "Regenerate" a response in ChatGPT because it did not complete your assigned task? You are not alone. Declining performance became widely reported by users in December. Users labeled ChatGPT’s degraded performance with a very human term, calling it lazy. One immediate workaround for ChatGPT laziness was to [...]

12 01, 2024

Real AI: No PR – AI will make you a ghost, facts, headlines and the word of the week

By |2024-03-18T12:49:08-07:00January 12th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Communications and PR, Technology|0 Comments

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 2 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. No PR? AI will make you a ghost While using generative AI, Victor Lund, Founding Partner at WAV Group, uncovered a new vital reason why public relations (PR) is essential for every firm, product, and service. His prompt requested AI to create information on firms that offer MLSs rev share for data aggregation and distribution. Granted, [...]

5 01, 2024

Real AI: AI free-for-all, AI gets its own keyboard key, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week

By |2024-03-18T12:48:47-07:00January 5th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Computer Vision, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|0 Comments

Real AI: AI free-for-all, AI gets its own keyboard key, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 2 Post 1 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. The AI free-for-all 2024 is signaling a messy year ahead for AI. Yesterday, Apple and Disney were told by the US Securities and Exchange Commission that they could not avoid shareholder votes calling for reports on their [...]

29 12, 2023

Real AI: AI in 2024, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week

By |2024-03-18T12:43:25-07:00December 29th, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Suveys and Research, Technology|0 Comments

By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 19 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 in 2024 “This is only the beginning.” That’s what my youngest son said when we talked about AI during a holiday family dinner with three generations this week. He was explaining this to his 83-year-old grandparents how AI’s exponential growth will continue. Proud dad here: He is one smart kid (Boise State grad with highest [...]

22 12, 2023

Real AI: AI fairness is a huge hurdle, AI can’t count, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week

By |2024-03-18T12:43:00-07:00December 22nd, 2023|Artificial Intelligence, Fair housing, PropTech, Real Estate Technology, Research, Technology|0 Comments

Real AI: AI fairness is a huge hurdle, AI can’t count, fast facts, top headlines and Quote of the Week By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 1 Post 18 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 fairness is a huge hurdle Of all the obstacles AI faces to continue its rocket-speed integration into our lives, the largest one it will need to overcome is fairness. In 2023, “responsible AI” became a [...]

12 10, 2021

Motley Fool Reviews Compass with Interesting Observations

By |2021-10-12T10:27:57-07:00October 12th, 2021|Business Intelligence, Industry Observations, Technology Evaluation|0 Comments

When I saw the headline of Motley Fool taking a deep dive on Compass, I really expected Jason Moser and Matt Frankel to get it wrong - most of Wall Street does. Normally, Motley Fool gets it right – beating the stock market by 4x.