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.
46,100 people do this job in the US. $73,220 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 45%
- 6%
- 49%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 22%. Today's estimate: 28%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 19 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 18% | 1 work day3.3 h to 3.1 work days | Stays with people | |
| Rent properties or manage rental properties.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 18% | 4.2 h50 min to 2.1 work days | Stays with people | |
| Develop, sell, or lease property used for industry or manufacturing.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 13% | 2.1 work days3.3 h to 1.3 work weeks | Stays with people | |
| Manage or operate real estate offices, handling associated business details.Done daily by most who do it. | 12% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1 work day | 43%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers over property prices and settlement details and during the closing of sales.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 9% | 2.5 h50 min to 1 work day | 40%Half by Dec 2026 | |
| Supervise agents who handle real estate transactions.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 6% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain knowledge of real estate law, local economies, fair housing laws, types of available mortgages, financing options, and government programs.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 5% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 5% | 1.3 h38 min to 3.3 h | 90%Half by now | |
| Appraise property values, assessing income potential when relevant.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 4% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | 46%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Generate lists of properties for sale, their locations, descriptions, and available financing options, using computers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 2% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | 87%Half by now | |
| Monitor fulfillment of purchase contract terms to ensure that they are handled in a timely manner.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 1.3 h25 min to 4.2 h | 69%Half by now | |
| Obtain agreements from property owners to place properties for sale with real estate firms.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 2% | 1.7 h25 min to 5 h | 51%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Real Estate Sales Agents33% now, 40% by 2028
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers32% now, 58% by 2028
- Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate59% now, 84% by 2028
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents59% now, 87% by 2028
- Financial and Investment Analysts11% now, 80% by 2028
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property48% now, 75% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).