If you bought your house only a few years ago or are entering the real estate market as a first-time home buyer, chances are you researched real estate online before you were within one to two months of making a move. The ability to search listings and home values online, along with getting school and community information, has become synonymous with the home buying process.

It hasn’t always been this way.

I had the opportunity to take a time travel through real estate to the year 1975. Steve Osmar, Connect2Agent member and real estate agent in Lansing Michigan, navigated past and present real estate practices … buckle up as we take a trip back to get to the present and future of real estate.

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