Study Scope
128
The 2026 Real Estate Agent AI Index benchmark analyzed 128 web-grounded AI answers across 16 U.S. real estate markets.
Basis: 16 markets; 4 web-grounded model configurations; 2 query families
Press and Research Kit · July 2026
AI is reshaping who enters the real estate agent shortlist.
Publication-ready findings, methodology notes, and downloadable assets from the 2026 State of AI Visibility in Real Estate benchmark.
Five Verified Findings
Use these figures with the stated denominator.
Empty Answer Rate
19%
AI assistants named no real estate agent or team in 19% of the answers captured.
Basis: 24 of 128 answers
Cross Family Overlap
26%-30%
ChatGPT and Perplexity produced substantially different real estate agent shortlists, with only 26% to 30% cross-family name overlap.
Basis: Jaccard overlap between ChatGPT-family and Perplexity-family market-level name sets
Captured Citation Rate
18%
Only 18% of named real estate agent mentions included a captured source URL.
Basis: 70 of 398 named mentions
Transaction Correlation
+0.46
AI Visibility had a moderate +0.46 Spearman correlation with public transaction count, stronger than its relationship with review count or dollar volume.
Basis: Spearman rank correlation; n=242
Study Scope
What the benchmark measured.
Recommendation surface
Two consumer question families across four web-grounded model configurations in sixteen U.S. markets. The analysis records named entities, answer position, and disclosed source URLs.
Validation corpus
AI Visibility was compared with available public transaction, review, and dollar-volume evidence using Spearman rank correlation. Sample size differs by public field.
Claim boundary
The report is aggregate. It does not publish an expansion-market leaderboard or claim that one model, answer, or agent is universally best.
Independence
Ranking placement cannot be purchased. Commercial relationships, profile claims, badge use, and outreach cannot change the benchmark findings.
Citation
Recommended attribution.
Real Estate Agent AI Index, The State of AI Visibility in Real Estate (2026), published July 10, 2026. https://realestateagentaiindex.com/reports/state-of-ai-visibility-2026
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About the publication.
Real Estate Agent AI Index is an independent research publication measuring which real estate agents and teams AI assistants surface, how consistently models agree, and how those recommendations relate to public production and review evidence. The Index is designed for buyers, sellers, journalists, researchers, and practitioners studying AI-mediated discovery.
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