The nation's two leading real estate futurists, Stefan Swanepoel and Tom Dooley, again team up to confront the latest real estate trends and changes affecting the residential real estate brokerage industry. This book picks up where their 1997 bestseller “Real Estate confronts Reality” concluded, and focuses 20 key trends, with contributions by:

• Ron Peltier (President of HomeServices)
• Terry McDermott (Executive VP of NAR)
• Dave Liniger (Founder and Chairman of REMAX)
• Bob Moles (President of Cendant Real Estate Division)
• Gary Keller (Founder and Chairman of Keller Williams)
• Lennox Scott (President of J.L. Scott Real Estate)
• Bob Becker (President of NRT)

Among the many timely topics covered are real estate commission structures, VOWs (Virtual Office Websites), real estate tax laws, real estate technology integration, telecommunications, online real estate education and today’s investment opportunities of tomorrow.