The real estate industry’s resilient spirit shined bright as brokers, agents and real estate professionals navigated the coronavirus pandemic over the last year – they accelerated technology adoption and innovation, deployed forward-looking leadership, and showed even greater resolve, proving that agents are central to the real estate transaction.

No one in real estate – or in the world, for that matter – knew what to expect when the pandemic arrived last March. As lockdown orders cropped up across the country, many of us wondered about the impact it would have on the real estate industry and the hundreds of thousands of communities that rely on it as a key economic driver.