Saved messages, automated replies and a backup plan can help real estate agents respond to new inquiries promptly while staying focused on current customers.

Agents should watch how their brokerage?s CRM, transaction and AI tools handle everyday tasks, compare them with other firms? systems and ask whether tech fees deliver reliable, integrated platforms that cut duplicate work, Inman reports.

Attorney Timothy Shields shared ways to prevent misleading AI-generated listings and photos, protect customer information and set brokerage policies.