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AI Agent for Real Estate Leads: Qualification and Handoff

Short answer

An AI agent for a real estate agency takes an enquiry, recognises what the client is looking for, gathers missing data with open questions and prepares a case card in the CRM for the property agent. It rejects no client automatically, and negotiation, choosing a tenant and assessing financial capacity stay with people. The agent costs from €3,000 net at Syntalith and, with 600 enquiries a month at 8 minutes each, pays back in 1.4 months.

How we workDetails ↓

  1. 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
  2. 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
  3. 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
  4. 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
net per agent for one process, build paid once
from €3,000
from signing the contract to acceptance
6–16 weeks
free prototype on your cases
€0

We belong to the OpenAI and Anthropic partner programmes and learn through their official courses. What this means ↓

Author: Syntalith · 3 min read

Example: the morning request inbox
Agent · ready

Statistics

Real estate and AI: statistics 2026

1.4 mo.

payback of a €3,000 agent with 600 enquiries a month: €2,792 of work today, €709 with checking and the model. Scenario.

Figures checked: 22 October 2026

One enquiry can mean several different cases

A property agent is running a viewing, and meanwhile enquiries arrive from a portal, a form, the phone and referrals. The client may want to see a specific listing, look for a similar flat, sell their own property, ask about many listings as an investor, or have criteria that need a different offer. The agent recognises the type of case and prepares the next step, and an enquiry that does not fit the property also gets a polite reply and a way to reach a person.

The first message is short and leaves a simple route to a person:

Good morning. Thank you for your enquiry about the listing. To prepare an answer, please tell us your budget and your preferred time for a viewing. If you would rather speak to a property agent, we will pass your enquiry on without further questions.

If an AI system sends the message directly, the notice about automated handling is prepared for that channel.

An enquiry from intake to the property agent
  1. 01Intakea form, an email from a portal, a chat or a call transcript
  2. 02Intentviewing, a similar listing, a sale, an investment
  3. 03Databudget, timing and criteria through open questions
  4. 04Cardthe case in the CRM with its source and the original text
  5. 05Property agenttakes over the case, with a named stand-in
Limits of the first scope
  • No automatic rejection of a client
  • No negotiation, tenant selection or assessment of financial capacity
  • Availability, price and reservation from the listing's current data
  • A notice about automated handling in the channel where the system writes

What it costs and when it pays back

Scenario: 600 enquiries a month
Today
600 enquiries × 8 min = 80 h (€2,792)
With the system, a person checks the output in 25% of the time
€698
Model, 2 calls per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
€11
Cost of one case
€4.65 today, €1.18 with the system
Saving
€2,083 a month

Payback of €3,000

1.4 months

The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 3,000 input and 400 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.

The count covers the work around a case: searching, reading, writing and passing things on. What remains is the time to check the output, 25% of today's work in the scenario. Before the quote we measure both times on 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, in a €0 test that takes 5 working days.

A similar mechanism runs in our real estate acquisition agent: it watches the Polish portals OLX, Otodom, Gratka and Morizon, 5 minutes pass from a new listing to a ready contact with the seller, and an operator approves the sending. The case page describes the system.

First check the queue in your current CRM

If the problem is that nobody is responsible for an enquiry, start with assigning the case and a reminder in your current CRM: a fixed rule after the form may be enough. A model is worth considering when an employee interprets free-form messages from many channels. The transparency obligations of Article 50 of the AI Act apply from 2 August 2026, so a conversation run by a system tells the client so. When the flow stops before sending, a durable record of the case state helps, as the OpenAI Agents documentation on human involvement describes.

CRM or agent
  • Nobody responsible for an enquiry

    assignment and a reminder in the CRM

    configuration

  • Free-form messages from many channels

    an agent that qualifies enquiries into a CRM card

    from €3,000

Where to start

The first scope covers one channel and the current listings: the enquiry card, missing information and a draft reply for the property agent. The team can practise a shared way of checking replies in team AI training from €1,150 net a day. We build this as part of AI agents. For the free process review, a description of one case from recent weeks and the tools it ran through is enough. You do not need to send confidential documents, and you get a written plan within 2 working days.

Worked example · Scenario

How we count the payback: a real estate agency

We run the same count for your agency in the free process review.

€1,396

a month for answering 600 customer questions

Payback: 2.5 mo.

4 minutes for an employee to answer a question and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 4,000 + 400 tokens per answer, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. The extra commission is a scenario: we assume that 1 in 1,200 questions answered in the evening ends in a deal that a slow reply loses today, with a commission of €1,377. In the review we count it on your sales process.

See the full calculation →

This is how we implement it in companies

All case studies →

Client results.

All projects →
foap.comcustomer service

foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.

Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.

the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
95%
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
30 s
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
100%
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
47 h

Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.

How foap.com customer service works →
Sample messages. Money matters always come to the person.

Other implementations

jaktako.design

studio projektowe

−87%

Time to look for new customers, every day

4 hours → 30 min

approx. 73 hours less per month (21 days of work)

according to the studio

How the agent loop works →
Signature Estates

real estate

approx. −90%

Operator time spent browsing portals, per day

2–3 hours → 20 min

approx. 45 hours less per month (21 days of work)

respect · contact the seller 5 minutes after the announcement

How the agent finds property listings →
Kuba Koziej, CEO and co-founder of MoreGrowth and board member at Natu.Care

Kuba Koziej

CEO and co-founder, MoreGrowth

„We started with my own AI agent. During the training that followed, I learned to build new applications myself. Today I am bringing this way of working with AI into my business. Working with Syntalith gave me exactly the skills and tools I needed.”

View the original training review on LinkedIn ↗

See the agent on your own cases before you commit.Book a free process review (30 min) →

How we build automation and agents

From a conversation to a working system in four steps.

  1. 01 · 30 min

    Free process review

    €0

    You're talking to an engineer. You receive the written plan within 2 business days.

  2. 02 · 5 days

    Free prototype

    €0

    The system works on 20-100 cases that your team has already handled. You see every result.

  3. 03 · 2–16 weeks

    Build

    50%

    Fixed price and goal written in the contract. First installment upon signing.

  4. 04 · after reaching the goal

    Reception

    50%

    You pay the second installment when the system reaches its target on your cases.

How a free prototype is created

Mon.

We set a goal

What result do you consider good?

Tue–Wed

The system is working

It goes through your affairs, one by one.

Thu

We compare

We check every difference with the team's work.

Fri

Result and price

List of errors and fixed implementation price.

You choose the matters. We anonymize them upon request, they stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.

On the market, such a test usually costs from PLN 3,000 to PLN 8,000.

Book a free process review (30 min)

We establish a prototype during a free analysis.

Data checked on October 25, 2026.

„Is my data safe?”

Yes. You choose where they go: from your company account to the model on your server.

  1. 00Employee's private account

    Customer and company data ends up in an account that the company cannot see or control. There is no data processing agreement, so it is a violation of the GDPR. When an employee leaves, the chat history goes with them.

  2. 01ChatGPT or Claude corporate account

    The provider does not use your data to train models. A copy of the queries remains in his logs for up to 30 days.

  3. 02API with zero retention (ZDR)

    The provider processes the request and does not save anything. It requires his consent, we prepare the application together.

  4. 03Processing in the EU

    Queries are counted and stored in Europe: OpenAI in the EU region, Claude via clouds with the EU region.

  5. 04Model at your place

    The open model runs on your server or in your cloud in the EU. The data does not go outside the company.

What we do with every implementation

  • Confidentiality agreement and data processing agreement before we receive any data.
  • You choose the cases for the prototype and we anonymize them upon request.
  • The data stays in the EU and we delete it after the test.
  • Corporate accounts with an administrator on your side.

When data cannot leave the company

The open model runs on your server or in your cloud in the EU. To choose from:

White-tailed eagle
Polish model, SpeakLeash and ACK Cyfronet AGH
PLLUM
Polish model, HIVE consortium commissioned by the Ministry of Digitization
Qwen
Alibaba
GLM
Zhipu AI
DeepSeek
DeepSeek

We select a model for the task and check it on your cases. We run it, tune it and maintain it.

Source: Bielik and PLLuM, ACK Cyfronet AGH ↗ · PLLuM, Ministry of Digitization ↗

Do you have a lot of your own data? We will fine-tune the small model.

  1. 1 Your examples
  2. 2 tuning
  3. 3 test on new cases
  4. 4 model at your place

When you have thousands of similar emails, documents or reports, we teach a small open model based on your examples. It works for you, responds quickly and costs less to maintain than a large model. We measure quality on issues that the model has not seen while learning.

Przemysław and Piotr did it in large programming and consulting companies. Artem did it before and does it today at Syntalith. It's about models on your own infrastructure, tuning and quality measurement.

You choose the protection level during the interview. We sign the data processing agreement before we see any data.Schedule a free analysis →

AI agents

See the agent on your own cases before you commit.

The agent takes the case through the next steps in your systems, and the actions take effect until the consent of the indicated person is obtained. A prototype for 20-100 cases that your team has already handled costs €0. We write down the purpose and test set in the contract.

See AI agents →
net per agent for one process, build paid once
from €3,000
from signing the contract to acceptance
6–16 weeks
free prototype on your cases
€0

Questions

  • What does an AI agent do at a real estate agency?

    It takes the enquiry, recognises what the client is looking for, gathers the budget, timing and criteria with open questions, records a card in the CRM and hands the case to a property agent. It rejects no client automatically.

  • Can the agent book viewings on its own?

    At first it prepares available slots and a message for a person to check. Booking on its own needs a connection to the agents' calendars and agreed rules.

  • How much does such an agent cost?

    At Syntalith from €3,000 net. With 600 enquiries a month at 8 minutes each, the payback is 1.4 months. We agree integrations and maintenance before the quote, and the model costs €11 a month.

Let's talk

Just write, call or choose a date.

We work fast because we hate corporate cotton wool. We don't have salespeople or managers to keep an eye on managers. You talk immediately to engineers who then build your system. We respect each other's time and yours too.

We will accept 3 more companies by the end of the year.

Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00 CET

What our OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships mean for you.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT and Anthropic makes Claude. We belong to the partnership programs of both companies, so we work with their tools every day and learn from the creators themselves.

OpenAI Select PartnerClaude Partner Network
01We will select a tool for the task
We implement both ChatGPT and Claude. We check both on your documents, and you choose the one that makes fewer corrections and saves more time.
02Knowledge straight from the creators
We learn from official OpenAI and Anthropic courses and materials. Your team learns about the features and settings that work today.
03Licenses without our margin
When we roll out ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot, you buy the licences directly from OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft and they invoice you. We add nothing to the licence.
04Certified engineers
On the team, we have an AWS certification in machine learning and an Anthropic certification in systems architecture on Claude.

Participation in programs does not mean that OpenAI or Anthropic endorses our services.