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Understanding tech fragmentation in real estate
A Lone Wolf study with T3 Sixty discovered that on average, brokerages are using over 20 different pieces of software in their businesses—a jarring number of passwords, applications, and data sets to navigate. It’s a number that continues to increase, and includes more industry-agnostic solutions than ever, leading to understandable gaps in workflow. Learn more.
What can we learn from the first half of 2024?
Another quarter has come and gone, and here at Lone Wolf, we’re taking the opportunity to look back at what our year-over-year data tells us to anticipate in the second half of 2024. Check out our blog post to learn more!
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