At leas in the country where I live it&#x27;s all about trust. People have it in their mind that it&#x27;s more trustworthy to buy from a realtor, and that the realtor is in some way liable for possible problems with the property.<p>None of this is true in practice however, a realtor has just about no liability in any direction.<p>It&#x27;s just a habit for people to use and &quot;trust&quot; realtors, it seems weird for some people if the owner is selling the property himself. That he is possibly witholding information, lying and trying to &quot;gouge&quot; the buyers somehow because he has a &quot;mental bond&quot; with the property.<p>It&#x27;s ridiculously easy to sell your appartment or property here, it&#x27;s all about the image. And you may actually even get a better price using a realtor. So who&#x27;s winning? The buyer, seller, or realtor? Or is everybody &quot;profiting&quot;? :)<p>So I don&#x27;t see this as a technical issue to &quot;disrupt&quot;. But if some of these apps would become popular and &quot;accepted&quot;, then the trust issues with selling your property yourself would go away (I don&#x27;t know what the point is of having dozens of &quot;uber&quot; like agents running things though, like explained in the article.). Buying an appartment or house is not about maximizing to the last dollar, but about getting a fair and trustworthy deal with as few problems as possible with the property after the deal is done.