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Real Estate Brokers
Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Obtain agreements from property owners to place properties for sale with real estate firms.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers over property prices and settlement details and during the closing of sales.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Generate lists of properties for sale, their locations, descriptions, and available financing options, using computers.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Maintain knowledge of real estate law, local economies, fair housing laws, types of available mortgages, financing options, and government programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Rent properties or manage rental properties.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Monitor fulfillment of purchase contract terms to ensure that they are handled in a timely manner.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Check work completed by loan officers, attorneys, or other professionals to ensure that it is performed properly.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Appraise property values, assessing income potential when relevant.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss26%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
50%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 79% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.