Thoughts on American Antitrust Institute’s Virtual Roundtable on Real Estate

Wednesday morning, I found myself staring at the monitor waiting for the Zoom meeting to start going. It was the American Antitrust Institute’s Virtual Competition Roundtable: Competition in Real Estate – Taking Stock of the “American Dream” event. Since AAI is a legit think tank in DC with a 13 year history, I figured the audience would be largely policymakers and enforcement officials and private antitrust attorneys — the people who could have an outsized impact on the real estate industry. I also figured that most of the industry would ignore it, and thought a summary might be called for.

Unfortunately, my note taking skills suffered greatly as I was listening more than taking notes, and had some audio issues on my end. I hope AAI will publish the recording of the event at some point, even if behind a paywall or something.