Coronavirus is pushing real estate agents into virtual home tours - Business Insider

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing brokerage and agents around the country to show homes over video chat

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Grant Thompson and his mother, Michele, look at an iPhone in the family's kitchen in Tucson, Ariz., on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. The 14-year-old stumbled upon a bug in the iPhone's FaceTime group-chatting feature on Jan. 19 while calling his friends to play a video game. With the bug, a FaceTime group-chat user calling another iPhone, iPad or Mac computer could hear audio, even if the receiver did not accept the call.

Other brokerages are doing the same and requesting that agents show listings through video chat or private showings.

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