What I Learned At Real Estate Connect

Last week I was at Bradley Inman's Real Estate Connect NYC, a show and tell on news and technical innovations in the real estate industry. It's been an industry mainstay since 1996, when Inman, a former real estate journalist turned Internet entrepreneur, launched his online real estate news service with a story detailing a scandal at the National Association of Realtors. The fact that Inman foresaw the promise of the Internet in 1996 is an indication of what you find at his conventions: from tech toys and tools to ARM agents. All in all, it's not a bad place to take the pulse of the nation's top realtors. Here's are five highlights from this year's show: