HomeSmart founder and CEO Matt Widdows talks about the seismic shifts reshaping the industry — Compass-Anywhere, Zillow’s ChatGPT app, private listing networks, consolidation chaos, AI.
Source: Inman News
This CEO says private listings are real estate’s ‘nuclear holocaust’
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