TEN AI AGENT OPPORTUNITIES

Here are the ten AI agent opportunities we unearthed.

1. Asset Management – Strategy Agent for Smaller Landlords: Transforms reactive small landlord operations into proactive, data-driven asset management, providing institutional-grade strategic guidance at a fraction of the cost.
2. ESG – Retrofit & Operational Upgrade Roadmapper: Shifts ESG from a compliance burden to a financial upside, enabling tailored action plans for energy efficiency and compliance for any building, driving energy savings and higher asset values.
3. Valuation – Narrative + Scenario Generator for SME Portfolios: Provides rich, scenario-driven valuations and narrative reports for smaller portfolios, moving beyond single-point appraisals to dynamic, strategic insights.
4. Leasing – Prospecting + Incentive Modeller Agent: Accelerates lease-up by proactively identifying prospects and optimising lease terms, democratising advanced tenant targeting and financial modelling for smaller players.
5. Development – Planning Risk & Local Sentiment Evaluator: Reduces costly surprises and delays in planning by assessing approval risk and community sentiment, enabling proactive design adjustments and stakeholder engagement.
6. Construction – Delay & Cost Overrun Early Warning Agent: Provides continuous monitoring and early alerts for project risks, leading to fewer delays and cost overruns, particularly for mid-size projects that lack sophisticated controls.
7. Finance – Lending Memo Generator for £1m–£10m CRE Loans: Dramatically increases efficiency and consistency in small loan underwriting, allowing lenders to scale business and improve risk management by automating comprehensive credit memo generation.
8. Occupier Strategy – SME Location + Workplace Optimisation Agent: Empowers SMEs to make data-informed decisions on location and workplace strategy, improving talent attraction, cost efficiency, and employee satisfaction.
9. Property Management – Digital Tenant Concierge Agent: Offers 24/7, instant tenant service, significantly boosting satisfaction and retention while increasing manager efficiency and scalability for all building types.
10. Investment Strategy – Always-On Market Scanner for Off-Market Deals: Provides an "edge" by continuously finding off-market, distressed, or mis-priced opportunities, democratising deal access and increasing transaction speed.

HOW WE SCORED THE OPPORTUNITIES

Five criteria were used to judge each opportunity. Latent Demand Intensity, Exclusivity of Current Offer, AI’s Ability to Commoditise, Integration Complexity, and Strategic Upside.

Every opportunity was considered to have a high ‘Latent Demand’ and to be currently an ‘exclusive’ offer - it seemed clear that if these services were economically available finding customers would not be a problem.

All are considered to be areas that AI ‘could’ commoditise. Meaning that the functionality of each opportunity strongly correlates with the capabilities of AI.

Integration, perhaps not surprisingly, is the toughest area, and scores varied widely here. Due to the need to access and assimilate disparate external data sources the Planning Risk Evaluator and Market Scanner would clearly be harder to integrate. Data Fragmentation is the industry's achilles heel and overcoming this, whilst not impossible, will certainly be a challenge.

However, all the opportunities were scored highly in terms of Strategic Upside. These aren’t incremental improvements - if they were achieved each one has the potential to materially change business outcomes.

STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES FOR CRE PROFESSIONALS

The absolute imperative, as we’ve discussed before, to ‘​Build a Bigger Pie​’ necessitates we adopt a 10X Mindset where opportunities like the 10 above are not summarily dismissed as too hard, or too speculative or a distraction from a focus on ‘efficiency’, and automating existing tasks.

ADOPT A 10X MINDSET

We know, even if we don’t want to acknowledge it, that the structure of the industry has to change to leverage all the new technologies, and to reflect the changing nature of demand in the market. We know that without a growth engine far fewer people are going to be needed in the industry than there are now. So we have to adjust our mindsets, stir up our entrepreneurial spirits and push into the future.

We actively need to be thinking of ‘value drivers’ not ‘cost centres’, investing in AI Fluency, and preparing ourselves, and our companies for a ‘human + machine’ future. All of the 10 opportunities above, as well as being potentially lucrative services, offer up great scope for marketing our human expertise - strategy, negotiation and relationship building.

PRIORITISE DATA

We need to prioritise data and modularity. We need to be able to access clean data, seamlessly via APIs, as and when it is required. Being able to use data in a cross functional way, mediated by AI, is going to be a superpower, and a huge differentiator.

And we need to work out how to pull all of this together. These 10 opportunities are not single source offerings. Their very beauty will be in the way they level the playing field by building ecosystems that allow the intelligence of AI to be applied pervasively across all our real estate workflows.

This will not be easy but the prize is great. Our ‘TAM - total addressable market’ will explode if we can really turn these luxury services into mass market offerings.

BUILD THE ECOSYSTEM

Neither real estate companies or PropTechs are likely to pull this off alone. The requirement for very strong technical skills, and perhaps even stronger domain knowledge, is very high. This will require partnerships, trust, and an ecosystem of interoperating vertical AI agents rather than monolithic software. It’s going to require a new way of thinking about business.

Whilst this way forward will not be for the faint hearted, not moving in this direction risks a steady decline. Someone will crack this, and when they do the purveyors of old school real estate services will be highly vulnerable. Even those luxury clients of today are not adverse to saving money, and they too will adapt, adopt and accelerate with AI.

OVER TO YOU

What luxury services do you provide that AI might enable you to sell to a much larger audience? What data do you have that could form part of an ecosystem? What part could you play in all of this?

And which of the 10 opportunities are you going to follow up with by reading their full details in the master report? You’ll be surprised how deeply they are addressed.

If you'd like to discuss how this applies to your business, I'd love to hear from you.