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The transcript below has been lightly edited for length and clarity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence:<\/strong>&nbsp;We have tools that will alert an agent as to which people in their database are more likely to buy or sell. Not only that, but some of these tools will examine an agent&#8217;s database of customers and alert them that they lost a purchase or sale of a home \u2014 to people who are in their database \u2014 because they forgot to stay in touch. For brokerage companies, tools that help identify prospective agents and pinpoint which agents a brokerage is likely to lose are coming on the market. This is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/the-use-of-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence-in-real-estate-brokerage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moneyball<\/a><\/em> for real estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Consumer choices:<\/strong>&nbsp;Certainly, over the last few years, we noted the rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/a-new-way-for-brokerages-to-compete-in-the-ibuyer-arena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iBuyers<\/a> \u2014 Zillow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Redfin<\/a>, Offerpad, Opendoor and others \u2014 not to mention dozens of major brokerage companies or large teams offering some kind of iBuyer program. That gives incredible new advantages for consumer choices. because they have more choices of how to sell homes. 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