Nearly three years after Saturday Night Live declared “real estate is your sex now” in a popular Zillow parody, mind share around the industry is sagging, according to an Intel analysis of traffic data.
Source: Inman News
The internet fell hard for real estate in 2021. But can the love affair last?
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