Finding Good Properties

[Harvey Gill]

Last few years real estate market has been suffering so I thought it’s a great time to buy . I did what most people do hire a realtor and I started to view properties on Zillow and realtor.ca

First, I hated finding properties on these real estate websites because it was time consuming. I would filter out the properties based on my geographic criteria, price, bedrooms, etc and some other factors such as proximity to transportation networks and parks.

Then there would be around 50 properties left and I would have to look at them individually and eventually narrow it down and send it to my realtor so he can book them. Also, in the process of narrowing down properties. I needed to do comparative analysis for each property. As you can imagine this took a long time.

Especially, in today’s world with ai agents surfing the web it should take around 20 minutes of my time while the agent does all of this grunt work. While I conducting my real estate research I also started to see if ai agents can do these tasks and I was surprised at how well they can find properties. So I made theprophunt.com . An ai agent that can find properties based on your queries such as I need home in Vancouver ,BC for $3 million with 4 beds and a nice view of a park . It will do its best to find properties that match your query.

There’s no reason why we would search for properties by filtering rather than using natural language like how we search on Google . That’s why I got rid of filtering.

Please do not abuse my agent since costs add up from those api calls but I have added ways to discourage you from abusing it.

You may also be wondering what was my real estate agent doing . He did is job well but I felt he was unnecessary. I could have easily found a property, booked, negotiated , and closed with the help of real estate lawyer. Only reason I had to hire him was that realtors get first view on properties post on MLS. He merely viewed MLS and booked appointments for me . A few properties I viewed properties by myself. I do see buyers agent losing their jobs faster than the selling agent.

Please let me know what you think about AI in real estate and my scenario