The Robots Are Coming: Should Real Estate Worry?

04/10/23 • 18 min

The launch of ChatGPT last year presented an existential problem for residential brokerage: Would the new tech transform into a beloved virtual assistant or the type of threat that could undermine their role in real estate?

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