Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties, such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.
U.S. Workers
190,600
Median Salary
$56,320
10-Year Growth
+3.1%
Annual Openings
36,600
Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent
32 of 32 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.
Present purchase offers to sellers for consideration.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can draft, format, and electronically present purchase offers and manage submission workflows to sellers through email/portals and CRM integrations.
Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can aggregate recent sales, adjust for features and produce comparative market analyses to determine competitive pricing reliably.
Prepare documents such as representation contracts, purchase agreements, closing statements, deeds, and leases.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate and populate jurisdictional document templates (representation contracts, purchase agreements, closing statements, leases, deeds) given inputs, producing ready-to-review drafts.
Interview clients to determine what kinds of properties they are seeking.
AI: Fully automatable - AI chatbots and intake systems can conduct structured interviews, capture preferences and constraints, and adaptively probe to determine what properties a client seeks.
Generate lists of properties that are compatible with buyers' needs and financial resources.
AI: Fully automatable - AI matching algorithms can combine buyer needs and financial data with MLS/listing feeds to generate prioritized compatible property lists.
Contact property owners and advertise services to solicit property sales listings.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can automate outreach campaigns, personalized messaging, and advertising to contact owners and solicit listings at scale, though humans often handle final negotiations.
Display commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties to clients and explain their features.
AI: Fully automatable - AI-driven virtual tours, 3D walkthroughs, and conversational guides can display properties and explain features to clients remotely and interactively.
Review property listings, trade journals, and relevant literature, and attend conventions, seminars, and staff and association meetings, to remain knowledgeable about real estate markets.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can continuously ingest listings, trade journals, and event materials and synthesize market intelligence to keep agents knowledgeable.
Coordinate appointments to show homes to prospective buyers.
AI: Fully automatable - AI scheduling assistants can coordinate showings, manage calendars, send confirmations, and handle rescheduling automatically.
Answer clients' questions regarding construction work, financing, maintenance, repairs, and appraisals.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can accurately answer general and technical questions about construction, financing, maintenance, repairs, and appraisals using domain knowledge and data feeds, though it should disclose uncertainty and local variations.
Advise sellers on how to make homes more appealing to potential buyers.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can provide tailored, data-driven recommendations and staging suggestions (including photo-based analysis) to make homes more appealing to buyers.
Conduct seminars and training sessions for sales agents to improve sales techniques.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can design curricula, generate materials, deliver virtual seminars, and role-play sales scenarios to train agents effectively at scale.
Evaluate mortgage options to help clients obtain financing at the best prevailing rates and terms.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can aggregate real-time rate and product data, model client-specific scenarios, and recommend optimal mortgage options given inputs and constraints.
Arrange meetings between buyers and sellers when details of transactions need to be negotiated.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully automate scheduling and coordination of meetings between buyers and sellers using calendar integrations and communication automation.
Solicit and compile listings of available rental properties.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and automation systems can scrape listings, perform outreach to landlords, and compile and maintain rental inventories end-to-end.
Contact utility companies for service hookups to clients' property.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and RPA can fully automate contacting utilities, submitting hookup requests, scheduling, and tracking via online portals and communications channels given client authorization.
Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers, generally representing one or the other.
AI: Partial - AI can automate and support many negotiation tasks (offer/counteroffer generation, strategy suggestions, automated responses) but lacks full fiduciary judgment, licensing authority, and nuanced interpersonal negotiation capability.
Advise clients on market conditions, prices, mortgages, legal requirements and related matters.
AI: Partial - AI can synthesize market conditions, pricing, mortgage products and regulatory information to advise clients but cannot replace licensed legal/financial counsel or assume fiduciary responsibility.
Promote sales of properties through advertisements, open houses, and participation in multiple listing services.
AI: Partial - AI can fully automate digital advertising, listing creation and MLS participation but cannot perform physical tasks like hosting in-person open houses or handing out materials on site.
Accompany buyers during visits to and inspections of property, advising them on the suitability and value of the homes they are visiting.
AI: Partial - AI can provide remote guidance, augmented-reality support and inspection report analysis during visits but cannot physically accompany buyers or perform hands-on inspections and on-site judgment calls.
Confer with escrow companies, lenders, home inspectors, and pest control operators to ensure that terms and conditions of purchase agreements are met before closing dates.
AI: Partial - AI can automate communications, reminders, and status tracking with escrow, lenders, and inspectors but cannot fully resolve complex negotiations or perform on-site checks.
Coordinate property closings, overseeing signing of documents and disbursement of funds.
AI: Partial - AI can orchestrate closing workflows, scheduling, and document collection but cannot physically oversee signings or execute disbursement of funds which require authorized parties.
Arrange for title searches to determine whether clients have clear property titles.
AI: Partial - AI can perform preliminary public-record searches and flag title issues but cannot replace formal title company searches and certified title commitments.
Investigate clients' financial and credit status to determine eligibility for financing.
AI: Partial - AI can guide what documents to collect and estimate eligibility from user-provided data, but cannot independently perform authorized credit checks or access protected financial records without integrations and consent.
Develop networks of attorneys, mortgage lenders, and contractors to whom clients may be referred.
AI: Partial - AI can identify and recommend attorneys, lenders, and contractors and help prioritize outreach, but cannot replace the human relationship-building, vetting, and offline reputation checks needed to develop a reliable network.
Inspect condition of premises, and arrange for necessary maintenance or notify owners of maintenance needs.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze photos and reports to detect issues and automate vendor scheduling and notifications, but cannot perform physical, on-site inspections or fully validate concealed conditions.
Appraise properties to determine loan values.
AI: Partial - AI can produce accurate automated valuation estimates (AVMs) from market data, but cannot replace licensed, on-site appraisals required for formal loan decisions and regulatory compliance.
Rent or lease properties on behalf of clients.
AI: Partial - AI can handle marketing, tenant matching, screening recommendations, and lease document generation, but cannot fully execute local legal/physical handover tasks or act as a licensed agent without integrations and authorization.
Secure construction or purchase financing with own firm or mortgage company.
AI: Partial - AI can automate lender matching, paperwork, prequalification and application drafting but cannot fully finalize or legally secure financing without human involvement and institutional processes.
Review plans for new construction with clients, enumerating and recommending available options and features.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze plans and generate option recommendations, but lacks the on-site judgment, regulatory liability handling, and interpersonal nuance to fully replace a human agent.
Visit properties to assess them before showing them to clients.
AI: Partial - AI can assess properties from photos, video tours, and sensor data remotely, but cannot physically visit and perform in-person inspections in most cases.
Locate and appraise undeveloped areas for building sites, based on evaluations of area market conditions.
AI: Partial - AI can analyze market data, maps, and zoning information to identify and preliminarily appraise sites, but cannot fully replace required physical surveys, local due diligence, and judgment calls.