In this most extraordinary of real estate environments, where according to both the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, U.S. residential real estate prices have grown in some cities by roughly 25% in one year alone, it can be challenging to even summarize the collective disruptive technologies bursting forth in the real estate community.

From an array of new financial technologies around payment systems to an ever-growing group of remote property management systems all on the wings of large internet home-sharing and selling marketplaces, contextualizing change in the increasingly online real estate experience becomes day-to-day rather than year-to-year.