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ShowingTime made publicly available the data showing the swift drop off of real estate showings when COVID19 struck. But then it also showed, over 60 days in advance that real estate would come out very strong. Listen to the president of ShowingTime talk about the data.
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Jen Goodhue (00:00):
Welcome everyone to the Brokerage Insider. This is the podcast where real estate professionals come to learn how to grow their business and use tomorrow solutions for today's problems. I'm your host, Jen Goodhue. And today we've got Michael Lane who is the president, and one of the founding members of ShowingTime. This has been a fantastic interview. We talk about COVID-19 trends in analytics. What data is showing us about how the real estate market is bouncing back. It's been a very interesting conversation and I hope all of you take something away that is valuable for your own business approach.
Jen Goodhue (00:38):
I'm here with Michael Lane, who is the president and founding partner for ShowingTime. Many of us know ShowingTime in the industry. I'll let Michael speak towards that a little bit. But part of why I wanted to bring him on the podcast, if you all haven't seen it, they did a phenomenal piece of content. As we're kind of moving out of the heels of the COVID crisis and pandemic right now, they had put out a chart that was showing state-by-state demographics as to what showings were doing. And I think it was just such an impactful piece of data and impactful piece of content. And we'll get into that a little bit more here in a minute. I want Michael first to introduce you and welcome you on our podcast.
Michael Lane (01:16):
Hi, Jen,
Jen Goodhue (01:18):
Happy to have you, and I'd love for you to give us a little bit of background on yourself and your company. For those of you who don't know ShowingTime, they have been around as such a force in the industry for so long, and we are so happy to have Michael here today.
Michael Lane (01:31):
Well, Jen, thank you again for inviting me to participate in your podcast this afternoon. And happy to be here. Just a little bit about me and about ShowingTime where we are in our 20th year in business. So that's impressive. And it's the cargo. About 20 years ago, I'm one of the I joined the...