Plan, direct, or coordinate the selling, buying, leasing, or governance activities of commercial, industrial, or residential real estate properties. Includes managers of homeowner and condominium associations, rented or leased housing units, buildings, or land (including rights-of-way).
U.S. Workers
296,640
Median Salary
$66,700
10-Year Growth
+3.6%
Annual Openings
39,000
Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent
26 of 27 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Direct collection of monthly assessments, rental fees, and deposits and payment of insurance premiums, mortgage, taxes, and incurred operating expenses.
AI: Fully automatable - Payment collection, reconciliation, scheduled bill pay, and anomaly detection can be fully automated via integrated payment platforms and AI-driven workflows given authorized access and integrations.
Market vacant space to prospective tenants through leasing agents, advertising, or other methods.
AI: Fully automatable - Digital marketing, listing syndication, targeted advertising, lead qualification, and campaign optimization can be fully automated with current AI tools and platforms.
Prepare detailed budgets and financial reports for properties.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and analytics platforms can ingest financial data, produce detailed budgets, forecasts, and variance reports automatically and at scale.
Maintain records of sales, rental or usage activity, special permits issued, maintenance and operating costs, or property availability.
AI: Fully automatable - Recordkeeping for transactions, leases, permits, maintenance logs, and availability can be fully automated with databases, OCR, and AI extraction and reconciliation tools.
Solicit and analyze bids from contractors for repairs, renovations, and maintenance.
AI: Fully automatable - Soliciting standardized bids, aggregating responses, performing compliance checks and quantitative comparative analyses can be fully automated using RFQ platforms and AI evaluation models.
Review rents to ensure that they are in line with rental markets.
AI: Fully automatable - Given access to up-to-date market data and comparables, AI can reliably analyze rents and produce market-aligned rent recommendations automatically.
Analyze information on property values, taxes, zoning, population growth, and traffic volume and patterns to determine if properties should be acquired.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems in 2025 can ingest and synthesize property values, tax data, zoning, demographic and traffic datasets to produce robust acquisition analyses and clear buy/sell recommendations.
Manage and oversee operations, maintenance, administration, and improvement of commercial, industrial, or residential properties.
AI: Partial - AI can optimize operations, predict maintenance needs, and assist administration, but cannot fully assume responsibility for complex on-site management and stakeholder decisions.
Plan, schedule, and coordinate general maintenance, major repairs, and remodeling or construction projects for commercial or residential properties.
AI: Partial - AI can plan schedules, coordinate vendors, and predict resource needs, yet complex remodeling or construction projects still need human oversight and on-site judgments.
Determine and certify the eligibility of prospective tenants, following government regulations.
AI: Partial - Automated screening can verify identity, credit, and background checks and flag eligibility, but final certification and handling regulatory exceptions typically require human review.
Inspect grounds, facilities, and equipment routinely to determine necessity of repairs or maintenance.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze images, sensor and drone data to identify likely maintenance needs but cannot yet fully replace all on‑site human inspection and nuanced judgment for every case.
Act as liaisons between on-site managers or tenants and owners.
AI: Partial - AI can handle routine communications, summaries, and triage between tenants/managers and owners, but complex relationship management and escalations still require human engagement.
Meet with prospective tenants to show properties, explain terms of occupancy, and provide information about local areas.
AI: Partial - Virtual tours, automated scheduling, and informational chatbots can cover many aspects of showings and answering questions, but in‑person showings and rapport‑building are not fully automatable.
Direct and coordinate the activities of staff and contract personnel and evaluate their performance.
AI: Partial - AI can automate scheduling, task assignment, monitoring, and performance analytics, but fully directing and evaluating human staff and contractors requires managerial judgment and interpersonal actions.
Meet with clients to negotiate management and service contracts, determine priorities, and discuss the financial and operational status of properties.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare contract drafts, scenario analyses, and negotiation support and can handle routine negotiations, but high‑stakes client negotiations and prioritization discussions typically need human leadership.
Negotiate the sale, lease, or development of property and complete or review appropriate documents and forms.
AI: Partial - AI can draft and review sale/lease documents and suggest negotiation strategies, but cannot perform licensed brokerage, complex negotiations, or finalize legal closings by itself.
Confer regularly with community association members to ensure their needs are being met.
AI: Partial - AI can manage routine outreach, surveys, and responses to community members, but cannot fully replicate the relationship-building and nuanced engagement a human manager provides.
Prepare and administer contracts for provision of property services, such as cleaning, maintenance, and security services.
AI: Partial - AI can draft contract templates, automate routine administration, and track performance, but cannot fully replace human negotiation, legal review, and vendor relationship management.
Investigate complaints, disturbances and violations and resolve problems, following management rules and regulations.
AI: Partial - AI can triage complaints, analyze records, and propose resolutions, but cannot perform in-person investigations or physically enforce rules and mediate complex interpersonal disputes.
Negotiate short- and long-term loans to finance construction and ownership of structures.
AI: Partial - By 2025 AI can analyze loan terms, model scenarios, draft negotiation strategies and communications, but cannot fully execute binding negotiations or replace the human relationships and legal authority required to close financing.
Confer with legal authorities to ensure that renting and advertising practices are not discriminatory and that properties comply with state and federal regulations.
AI: Partial - AI can comprehensively review laws, flag discriminatory language, and draft communications for regulatory compliance, but cannot itself act as a licensed legal representative or complete direct interactions with legal authorities without human oversight.
Maintain contact with insurance carriers, fire and police departments, and other agencies to ensure protection and compliance with codes and regulations.
AI: Partial - AI can automate communications, reminders, and compliance tracking with agencies, but cannot fully substitute for official representation or emergency coordination that requires humans.
Meet with boards of directors and committees to discuss and resolve legal and environmental issues or disputes between neighbors.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare briefs, legal summaries, and mediation options for boards, but cannot fully replace in-person legal negotiation, governance judgment, or sensitive dispute resolution.
Purchase building and maintenance supplies, equipment, or furniture.
AI: Partial - Procurement workflows (reordering, vendor comparison, purchase orders) can be automated, but complex purchasing decisions and approvals still require human oversight.
Contract with architectural firms to draw up detailed plans for new structures.
AI: Partial - AI can generate RFPs, evaluate firm proposals, and help draft contracts and plans, but cannot legally execute contracts or fully manage the human negotiations and approvals required to retain architects.
Negotiate with government leaders, businesses, special interest representatives, and utility companies to gain support for new projects and to eliminate potential obstacles.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare stakeholder analyses, messaging, and negotiation strategies and simulate interactions, but it cannot reliably replace human relationship-building or legally bind parties in negotiations with governments and interest groups.
Clean common areas, change light bulbs, and make minor property repairs.
AI: Not automatable - These are physical maintenance tasks requiring manual labor or specialized robotics not broadly sufficient in 2025, so AI alone cannot perform them.