What Australian real estate could look like in 10 years
Fewer bundled campaigns, more specialists, and a consumer who can see the fee in parts — if regulation and portals allow it.
Predictions are usually marketing. A more honest version is a set of pressures: cheaper software, higher house prices making percentages look absurd, and a generation that already bought cars and holidays without a local salesperson.
The durable pieces of the industry are legal transfer, finance, and the fact that a house is not a pair of shoes. Inspections, identity, and neighbourhood courtesy do not disappear because an app exists.
A plausible decade is mixed: traditional agencies still running complex stock, platforms taking straightforward campaigns, and a lot of hybrid mess in the middle. That mess is the beat.