From historians’ take on the rivalry (and that’s a good thing!) to calls for AI and more, we had our eyes on the clock and calendar at last week’s National Association of Realtors legislative session in Washington, DC.
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Speaking ahead of a conversation with noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, NAR CEO Nikia Wright told a packed room at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., that she faces opposition within the association: people who don’t think like her, who challenge her and see things differently. Then she told them that was exactly what she wanted.
Michael Platzios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told a standing-room-only audience that AI tools are now available and waiting staff risk falling behind in what he calls a “K-shaped economy” that divides companies into two camps.
An increasing number of home sellers have never listed a property before. Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist at NAR, said most agencies that recognize the gap are missing out on opportunities for their clients.
The map is from the 1930s. The results are not. Designing the WE’s Braden Crooks brought his “Undesign the Redline” exhibit to the NAR Expo in Washington to show how Great Depression-era federal housing policies drew lines that still define today’s markets, from the affordability crisis to valuation bias to the racial wealth gap.
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