Real estate industry embraces technology
LAS VEGAS � Google executive Justin McCarthy smiled, looked out upon a vast room packed with Realtors and noted how times had changed.
Just four years earlier, he said, he had spoken to a real estate industry conference on technology trends and had gotten the message that Google was viewed with suspicion.
�There was this notion of a lion coming over the hill,� he said, evoking a phrase widely heard in the industry at the time. It was shorthand for any number of developments � particularly the emergence of technology � that were rumored to be positioning themselves to take real estate agents� livelihoods away.
�Anything that looked and smelled new was immediately the lion,� McCarthy said.