The disrupters can tinker around with whatever gadget they can think up next, but if sellers believe that selling their home off-market is the way to go, there won’t be any MLS/traditions to disrupt.
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The private listing clubs are evolving as a natural defense mechanism and give agents a new advantage. Everyone is in it for themselves now as the industry gets picked apart by the one-percenters.
Here’s an example of a one-percenter backed by massive VC money that sells themselves as empowering the consumer with a new and more effective choice. Even people like John Burns don’t question the pesky details, and get behind them as a viable disrupter, which they are.
But nobody questions what the real cost is to the consumer, and how they will ever know if it’s really worth it. The cash package is sold by bashing the strangers-in-house/inconvenience/open-houses as an ugly uncertainty. But is that worth coughing up more than 10% of your equity? Because that’s what it is going to cost.
https://www.realestateconsulting.com/the-monumental-disruption-of-ibuyers/