PHOTO: Sarah Hackett & Steve Carroll are keynote speakers at AREC 2018 Source: Supplied

UBER and AirBnB may not have much in common with the Australian real estate industry, but they had showed that local agents need to lift their game.

That was the message from two key innovators in the Queensland real estate industry as they warned that Silicon Valley would disrupt the local industry in ways agents would struggle to keep up with.

Place Bulimba managing director Sarah Hackett and realestate.com.au’s director of industry relations Steve Carroll will talk at AREC 2018 about the challenges and benefits of new technologies.

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