Transcript:<\/strong><\/h4>\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 What are the emerging trends that we as consumers will notice if you\u2019re dealing with a real estate agent? Let\u2019s find out. Kylie Davis is the head of Property Marketing with Core Logic.
\nKylie, tell us about some of the things that agents are currently talking about in terms of technology.
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Probably the most common one that everyone is talking about is virtual reality. What that lets you or what it can let you do in a real estate sense is for buying off the plan or buying in another country or in another state where you can\u2019t get to the property, it lets you walk through the property virtually, sort of see it, feel it and then change the color scheme or change the furniture even though you\u2019re not able to physically go there or even if the property hasn\u2019t been physically built.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 Is this another step from virtual tours?
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Yes.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 Virtual tours have been around for quite a few years, but this is actually a lot more detail, isn\u2019t it? This makes you feel like you\u2019re actually in there. Is this the one where you wear glasses?
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Yes, or you can put your phone into the cardboard glasses and put them over your eyes, and it gives you that whole 3-D experience. A virtual tour is more of a guided tour where you have someone showing you the things that they want to show you, whereas virtual reality is actually you being able to feel like you\u2019re immersed in the property and go and explore the parts of the property that you want to explore.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 Kylie, do you think that consumers will be happy to buy from just watching something in virtual reality, or will they really want to go and see it and feel it?
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Have a look at what we\u2019re doing already. We buy off the plan having only seen a model home, which may or may not look like the changes or the corrections or the differences in the plan that you\u2019ve requested especially if you\u2019re in a unit. If you\u2019re buying in a unit block, you often only get shown one or two different types, but then you modify it maybe according to what can be incorporated into that, but you never really see that; you only see drawings or pictures of it. This is an opportunity to experience that before you pay the final amount.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 Something else that I notice agents talking about is push technology. The difference between push and pull technology \u2013 tell me where that\u2019s headed.
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Push technology is about once you\u2019ve registered your interest in something, then it starts to kind of follow you and let you know when updates have happened. We\u2019re seeing this already in real estate with some fringe apps that are out there.
\nDomain is using push technology with its Check-in Homepass app, which lets you check in really quickly into a new open for inspection rather than having to stand with an agent and give your details every time you go into one.
\nWe\u2019re also seeing it in the use of iBeacon technology. iBeacon\u2019s most gimmicky stuff are the little discs that you can put on your key ring to find your keys or on your phone, but you can also attach them to sign boards.
\nThen once you\u2019ve logged in to the portal and said, \u201cI\u2019m really interested in four bedroom homes with two bathrooms in this area,\u201d then the properties that at the moment, you would go onto the portal and you would put that as your criteria and then it would look it up for you, but once you\u2019ve told the technology once that that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for, every time something new pops up, it starts to alert you.
\nEven out in the real world when you\u2019re driving through the suburb that you\u2019re interested in, your phone beeps to say that there\u2019s a property around the corner from where you are that fits your criteria.
\nWe\u2019re seeing apps like Followit starting to use that kind of technology to push information to you once you\u2019ve expressed an initial interest without you having to necessarily go through an agent but to help you then engage with the agents that you want to speak to.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 These apps \u2013 you mentioned Followit \u2013 are they available now?
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Followit is still in, I think, preliminary trial stage, although it\u2019s expanding. It has some trials happening in the northern beaches, and I think it might be starting to go into its next stages. Homepass is being used, and I know Ray White has invested in that.
\nThere are quite a few of these things that have not been universally adopted yet but are doing some really interesting trials that are showing some really fascinating results.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 We\u2019ll keep an eye on that. Tell me about Blockchain. What is that?
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Blockchain is a little bit fringe for real estate, but what Blockchain is is a way of creating a banking system without having to build a bank or a banking payment system. The banking system globally at the moment requires extraordinary amounts of capital and infrastructure in order to keep the money safe.
\nWhat Blockchain does is it\u2019s a way of dividing the transaction of a loan or a payment into multiple different what they call blocks. They break it into lots of different bits, and it gets processed in those bits. It gets pulled apart and processed in all sorts of different places and then put back together. It\u2019s using the speed of the Cloud and the Internet and technology to disassociate transactions from each other and then put them back together to create the security.
\nThis sounds a bit geeky, but the reason it\u2019s important \u2013 it could affect real estate agents \u2013 is that at the moment, there are a lot of agents who offer the ability to organize finance through the agency. They have a finance system, but they\u2019re always underwritten or supported by a full-on banking system.
\nWhat Blockchain is going to do is disintermediate banking down the track, so it will make it easier for people to share credit with each other and support each other\u2019s credit goals without the risk of it being an exposed transaction. It means that not only could you go and find a real estate agent and find the property that you like, but he could not just help you organize the finance for that property but possibly even underwrite the finance for that property.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 A real estate agent can do all of this?
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 Blockchain is still very nascent, and this is the way that we see that it\u2019s heading and the impact that it is likely to have on the real estate industry.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 Where can I read more about that? That\u2019s totally new to me, I have to say.
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 There\u2019s been a lot about it in the commercial press even over the last couple of weeks. Blockchain is the technology that sits behind Bitcoin and it\u2019s what\u2019s enabling all of these virtual currencies.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 It\u2019s called Blockchain. Go and check it out. I am certainly going to do that.
\nKylie, thank you so much for joining us and bringing me up to speed on some of this technology. It\u2019s just fascinating. Thank you.
\nKylie:<\/b>\u00a0 No worries. Nice talking again.
\nKevin:<\/b>\u00a0 Kylie Davis is from Core Logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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