There’s a battle playing out in residential real estate, and consumers may not even be aware they’re a part of it. Today on the show, Laurel and David are joined by James Dwiggins, president of NextHome, Inc. and host of the Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered podcast, for a discussion about the world of residential home buying.

One of the hot-button issues in Dwiggins’s world is private listings, where listings are kept off of larger sites and services, which creates an information advantage that benefits brokers—at a potential cost to sellers and buyers. We discuss the rise of private listings, the history of the American real estate industry, talk about insurance, climates, and torts, and finally, discuss how tech and AI may or may not displace your local realtor.

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David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller. He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.