>>People are smarter now then they were when the web first exploded and Realtors and Real Estate offices are more savvy about what is and isn't possible regardless of what webmasters tell them.
I think we're on the cusp of mostly DIY. Agents will spend all of that 'partner' checking time on real web design. I'm impressed with the savvy forum agents have. Actually, I'm amazed; when channeled elsewhere, we'll see some fun competition like the dance days.
You're dead on with WP (or whatever) as a quasi-CMS. If I were a new agent, I'd start out with a blog and pay programmers by-the-job to do what I couldn't master. Plus new blog posts are popping into the SERPs in a matter of hours sometimes on very immature sites.
