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In Houston, Clients Are Consulting ChatGPT for Home Valuations – and Trusting It Over Their Realtor
In Houston’s Memorial neighborhood, a “For Sale” sign stands in front of a brick two-story home just steps from a busy road. Before her...
AI
Construction’s Labor Shortage Is Pushing Contractors Toward Robots, Not to Cut Jobs, But to Fill Them
Younger tradespeople are choosing different careers, aging workers are leaving physically demanding roles, and contractors in some markets can’t staff projects through traditional hiring....
AI
Why Self-Employed Borrowers Still Struggle to Get a Mortgage – and What’s Changing
You earn a good living. Your bank account reflects it. But when you sit down with a mortgage lender, suddenly your income doesn’t quite...
AI
Everyone Else Handed Relationships to a Robot. AgentBrief Handed Them Back to the Professional.
At some point in the last decade, the real estate services industry got drunk on automation. Mike Simon watched it happen from inside the...
AI
To Win Self-Employed Borrowers, Lenders Are Racing to Process Faster
In the market for self-employed borrowers, the best rate isn’t always what wins the loan. Often, it’s whichever lender gets there first. When a...
AI
The Hidden Reason Real Estate AI Underperforms: Undocumented Expertise
An experienced real estate agent can often tell within the first ninety seconds of a call whether a lead is serious. There’s no script...
Construction
Apartment Buildings Are Replacing Unused Amenity Rooms With On-Demand Rental Kiosks
The amenity arms race in multifamily housing has been well documented: rooftop lounges, golf simulators, co-working spaces. But a quieter change is also underway,...
AI
Construction Robotics Moves From the Lab to the Job Site
The gap between what construction technology promises and what actually works on a job site has long frustrated the industry. Autonomous robots have been...