{"id":11786,"date":"2025-03-24T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:32:44","slug":"is-artificial-intelligence-about-to-replace-estate-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craneandco.co.uk\/pages\/is-artificial-intelligence-about-to-replace-estate-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Artificial Intelligence About to Replace Estate Agents?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s often said that artificial intelligence or AI is the future and will change how we do everything. So can AI help you find a home to buy or assist you in selling one? Let\u2019s find out.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

What is AI?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

AI is technology that enables computers to simulate human intelligence.<\/p>\n

It can gather information, learn from it and even make decisions.<\/p>\n

You may already use AI in your daily life.<\/p>\n

For example, Alexa can tell you what\u2019s in the news today. And if you ask ChatGPT for, say, a Victoria sponge recipe it will find you one instantly.<\/p>\n

Can AI take the hard work out of finding a home?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

To find out, we ran a simple experiment. We told a few popular AI tools what we were looking for and asked them to find us a house to buy in our area. Here\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n

Alexa could find us just about anything we could ever want to buy. But it couldn\u2019t find us any houses or flats.<\/p>\n

Siri was a fail, too. It just gave us directions to the place we were looking to buy in.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT did much better. It came up with a list of properties for sale and links to their listings on sites like Rightmove.<\/p>\n

But there was a snag. While some of these properties fit our requirements, others were nowhere near. It struggled to understand what we really wanted.<\/p>\n

Grok, the newish AI tool from X, gave us a lot of information about the area. But it couldn\u2019t show us any listings. It just suggested we use sites like Rightmove.<\/p>\n

Gemini didn\u2019t even give us any area information. Again, it just referred us to property platforms and suggested we try estate agents.<\/p>\n

In short, AI didn\u2019t make our property search any easier than a human search would. In some ways, it made it harder.<\/p>\n

So can AI help you sell your home?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Based on our experiment, if AI can\u2019t help buyers find a home to buy, then it\u2019s hard to see how it can help sell one either.<\/p>\n

Maybe AI will be able to do this in the long term, but it\u2019s not there yet.<\/p>\n

Until that happens, working with a good old human estate agent is still the best way to buy or sell a property.<\/p>\n

An experienced local agent will have a much more in-depth and intuitive understanding of the area and what buyers and sellers are looking for.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re thinking of selling, why not give us a call and speak to a real person today?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

We hope you\u2019ve found this article interesting. If you know somebody who\u2019s thinking of buying or selling a home, please help them out by sharing it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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