But after years of trying, the basic structure of buying and selling a home remains pretty much the same.
Even if you accept a bit of intricacy, real estate remains a stodgy industry — and regulation is at the core of that resistance to change.
Despite the best efforts of would-be disruptors to cut out this middleman, 88% of buyers this year enlisted a real-estate agent, a Zillow survey found.
Short of a tech-enabled homebuying nirvana, there are some other changes that could make the process easier for consumers.
Saul Klein, an early internet evangelist in the real-estate industry, told me he sees an approaching "paradigm shift."
Persons:
that's, you'll, they're, it's, Mike DelPrete, Rob Hahn, DelPrete, aren't, they'd, pocketing, —, ClosingCorp, we're, John Berkowitz, hasn't, Berkowitz, They're, Bobby Bryant, Bryant, Rich Barton, Wendy Gilch, Gilch, Saul Klein, Klein, James Rodriguez
Organizations:
Companies, University of Colorado Boulder, National Association of Realtors, Ojo, Group Inc, Universal
Locations:
Washington, California, Georgia