Amit Kulkarni

Amit Kulkarni has more than 20 years of experience building and scaling major real estate brands across portals, brokerage, proptech, and MLS. He helped drive Realtor.com’s growth to a record 110 million monthly users and later served as Chief Marketing Officer at Bright MLS, the nation’s largest MLS. He is now co-founder of Alloy Advisors, a consultancy that helps industry leaders remain competitive and shape the housing market in a time of rapid change.

Opinion

NAR is presiding over a real estate free-for-all where there are no rules

NAR's performance is what stewardship failure looks like at industry scale

May 21

Opinion

Brokers have stopped waiting for the MLS industry to catch up

Voluntary consolidation requires MLS executives to vote their organizations out of existence

May 19

Opinion

The Real-REMAX deal: Consumers are coming for your commission

Alloy Advisors' Amit Kulkarni compares Real-REMAX, Compass-Anywhere and Rocket Companies

May 4

Opinion

The Real-REMAX deal: Pros, cons and what it means for agents

Alloy Advisors' Amit Kulkarni crunches the numbers on Real's acquisition of REMAX

May 1

Opinion

The open market broke. Here's what comes next

The same leadership that got MLSs and NAR to this moment won't be able to get them out of it

Mar 26

Opinion

Zillow called it the ‘open market,’ then buried consumers and MLSs

The tragedy isn't that the MLS got disrupted. It's what's replacing the MLS

Mar 23

Opinion

Private inventory: New competition rules that leave consumers behind

In the current market, the way listings reach consumers matters more than ever, Amit Kulkarni writes. Buyers need greater visibility, but the industry is shifting toward less of it

Nov 21

Opinion

What the Compass-Anywhere deal means for the future of MLSs

If MLSs shift to meet the challenges of a new market, they'll secure their place at the center of the homebuying process, Amit Kulkarni writes

Oct 1