{"id":529,"date":"2020-01-06T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/06\/todays-tech-why-it-has-yet-to-meet-the-greater-needs-of-the-housing-consumer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:04:46","slug":"todays-tech-why-it-has-yet-to-meet-the-greater-needs-of-the-housing-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/06\/todays-tech-why-it-has-yet-to-meet-the-greater-needs-of-the-housing-consumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s tech: Why it Has Yet to Meet the Greater Needs of the Housing Consumer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s tech: Why it Has Yet to Meet the Greater Needs of the Housing Consumer<\/h2>\n

Relationships matter in real estate, and that will never change.<\/em><\/h6>\n

From Silicon Canal to Silicon Slopes to Silicon Prairie, tech cities continue to pop up across the nation as long as the consumer continues to evolve and demand, tech gurus, will be there to respond. Although many sectors have found success among this rise in tech, it seems others have tried and missed the mark. Now, the reasons why a business or technology was not successful is not what we are here to discuss, and for time\u2019s sake, we won\u2019t. But what I want to discuss is one major area in technology that more than often gets overlooked, comradery.<\/p>\n

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As we all know, buying and selling a home is a very emotional transaction for more than 85% of the nation\u2019s housing consumer population (due to financial capabilities and experience). This emotion drives brokerages to specialization, which encourages consumers to need a human connection and coaching, not just A.I. This is what many tech gurus fail to recognize and easily overlook. However, we have been trained to expect new and modern consumer experiences. Let\u2019s call this Pre-Desire-User-Experience (PDUx). The concept is easy to whiteboard, but much more challenging to deliver.<\/p>\n

A New Set of Expectations<\/h5>\n

Simply put, consumers have a new set of expectations based on other contemporary consumer experiences (think Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, Apple, Airbnb, etc.). The idea is to provide the consumer with what they need and want at the moment or before they think they want it. If your customer\u2019s inner-speak is, \u201cI need and want\u2026 and where do I start\u2026?\u201d The question then becomes, how does the housing industry respond? Unfortunately, as a whole, we haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

When consumers buy and sell a home, they are required to complete this transaction while navigating many different industries\u2014real estate sales, real estate financing, moving services, home products and services, security, energy and utilities, warranty, insurance, and more. Let\u2019s refer to each of these industries as kingdoms, all of which are vying for the consumer\u2019s attention, but operate quite competitively and separate.<\/p>\n

Today, most technology strategies are focused on staying within each of these various kingdoms, and often the gurus themselves establish their careers within that sector. The individual industries that make up the Housing Market are a somewhat esoteric set of knowledge. And more consideration needs to be on the actual result. We must all ask the question, are we responding to our customer\u2019s needs? We need to look beyond the traditional Net Promoter Score and Social Surveys, asking, \u201cWere you satisfied with the lending experience?\u201d What we need to ask is, \u201cdid you enjoy selling and buying a new home?\u201d Unfortunately, that answer is most often unequivocally, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Managing the Outcome<\/h5>\n

Housing consumers gauge met expectations based on two very straight forward outcomes: Was it easy or difficult? And was it fair? When consumers are forced to work with multiple, disjointed industries to complete a single transaction, each of which is complex, it makes it nearly impossible to meet these trained and ingrained expectations. This disjointedness also dramatically increases the overall cost of housing.<\/p>\n

As a whole, regardless of what industry career path you operate within, you need to start asking some new questions: Do you satisfy our client\u2019s overall housing expectations? And are you doing it in a way that supplies delight when buying a home, while at the same time providing PDUx and saving your customer money in the process? If you want to respond positively to these questions, it may be time to expand your current technological strategy. There is a way to come together as an industry to create this type of comradery, save money, and streamline processes while unilaterally making it easy for all parties involved.<\/p>\n

The technology is here and readily available amongst all industry kingdoms. It\u2019s time that we work together to supply real estate professionals with predictable and sustainable career experience, while at the same time finally meeting our clients\u2019 overall expectations. We can delight them if we work together and think together.<\/p>\n

Author Bio<\/h5>\n

Dave Zitting\u2019s mortgage industry career launched in 1989, and within ten years, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. (PRMI). After a successful exit from PRMI, Dave, co-CEO of Avenu Technologies, Inc., became laser-focused on Avenu\u2019s work to enhance the real estate sales process through revenues and career opportunities for real estate agents. IntroLend, MoneyTips, and HomeKick are collaborative technological platforms that create ease for the home buyer and new revenue streams for professionals.<\/p>\n

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