Nothing will put lawyers or doctors out of work. They are powerful cartels that can easily protect themselves. Realtors are already irrelevant technologically but they have a huge entrenched social and legal system to make it impractical to compete.
My friend is a real estate agent, they play a major part in the psychology of buyers and sellers. Selling your dead parents home that you grew up in (for example) isn't something everyone just signs up to some website and does using a credit card without a second thought.
A good real estate agent can guide people through this process while advising them on selling at the right price while avoiding the most stress often during an extremely difficult time in their life, such as going through divorce of breakup. They of course also help keep buyers interested while the seller is making up their mind about the correct offer to take.
I find your comment ignorant in so many ways. Maybe have some respect?
Are you not just explaining "a huge entrenched social system" as OP said?
It takes a long time for cultures to shift and for people to start to trust information systems to entirely replace high touch stuff like that. And at some level there will always be some white glove service on top for special cases.
How is hiring a professional to help you sell a property a "huge entrenched social system" sorry ? No one is forced to hire a real estate agent. I bought my house through private sale.
