Earlier this month, a group of about 12 real estate professionals and clients recently met on the outdoor patio of a Danville, California, restaurant on a sunny, warm evening for cocktails and appetizers. They were meeting to celebrate the culmination of a series of deals — which nearly didn’t happen a number of times over.
When consumers browse boutique stores in 2016, odds are they’ll be swiping their cards and signing their names on an iPad instead of through a point-of-sale console. Digital transactions are all around us, and the arrival of software and powerful machines on which to run it has allowed the real estate industry to adopt an array of tools to help manage and coordinate property sales transactions.