Mark Wells: Are luxury estate agents safe in an AI world?
'Agentic' artificial intelligence is poised to reshape the market as we know it - so what can the property sector learn from the music industry, which faced a similar moment in 2008?
Mark Wells is the Founder & CEO of Invisible Homes.
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Algorithms can easily improve the process of finding the perfect home, says the boss of off-market platform Invisible Homes, so why would the big players leave an open goal like this?
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