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Could you give some more detail on what the political/business challenges are?


The biggest one is that realtors exist entirely because of regulation a the state level.

After that is the extremely entrenched business interest in the status quo - a lot of people are making money off the current system, and any real disruption is going to cost 95-99% of the real estate industry their jobs.

As noted elsewhere, the level of regulation is such that even offering better data to buyers/sellers has a lot of regulatory overhead, including physical offices with real people.


State? Try county! A lot of the public records for homes are held in county courthouses.




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