Would you trust AI to find real estate for you to buy or rent?

I’m curious how people feel about delegating real estate search to AI — not just filtering listings, but actually understanding your needs, preferences, and constraints.

Imagine an AI system that: - Knows your budget, commute, lifestyle, and personal priorities - Analyzes thousands of listings and filters out irrelevant ones - Evaluates each option by multiple factors (price dynamics, neighborhood safety, infrastructure, noise, air quality, etc.) - Provides only the few listings that truly match what you want - Explains why each recommendation fits you

Would you trust such a system to handle your property search or even make recommendations automatically? Or would you still prefer to review and decide manually?

I’m exploring how much trust people would give an AI agent for property search and evaluation, and what concerns might stop them from using it.

2 points | by D___R___ 5 hours ago

1 comments

  • JohnFen 4 hours ago
    > I’m curious how people feel about delegating real estate search to AI — not just filtering listings, but actually understanding your needs, preferences, and constraints.

    I don't think that there exists a system that can actually understand those things.

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    • D___R___ 3 hours ago
      John, thanks for your comment. I’ve been in real estate for about 10 years, studying how people actually make decisions and helping them choose the right property. Recently, launched a platform that uses deep analysis to evaluate listings before you see them, showing only the ones that genuinely match your needs and lifestyle. We’re constantly running tests and experiments.
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      • JohnFen 4 minutes ago
        What I doubt is that AI can provide a useful enough insight into my needs and desires so as to be able find appropriate real estate for me. It's not about evaluating listings, it's about the ability to evaluate me well enough. Even if it theoretically could (which I doubt), how could it possibly learn enough about me to actually do that? It would have to know me as well as my close friends do.

        So, I guess me answer is no, I don't think AI can be very useful for this sort of thing.