Real Estate AI Flash 8/19

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Rajeev Sajja
August 19, 2025

Weekly Recap

🎙What happens when real estate team leaders use AI as the backbone of their operations? In this week’s newsletter, you’ll hear firsthand stories from agents closing hundreds of deals, see AI doing the heavy lifting, and catch the latest AI updates, including a review of comet, the AI browser that could change how we work!

Take a few minutes to sharpen your edge. Let’s get into it.

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CURRENT EPISODE

In the most recent episode, my guest was Austin Hellickson, a 23-yr old rising star team leader in the Greater Seattle area who has successfully integrated AI into his business operations. Austin shares his journey from growing up in a real estate family to leading a team that has closed over 180 transactions. He discusses his initial skepticism about AI, his transformative experiences with it, and how it has streamlined processes like lead follow-up and content creation.

Tune in wherever you listen to your podcasts or catch the video here.

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UPCOMING EPISODE

Ep 86: The Realtor’s AI Playbook for Pricing and Marketing

How does a top-producing agent price homes more accurately and market them faster, with less effort? In this upcoming episode, I speak with Chuck Bachteler to break down his real-world AI workflow. From ChatGPT-powered pricing strategies using RPR data to create polished listing content in minutes, Chuck shares how he systematized property pricing with a 7-step AI prompting process.

Set a reminder for tomorrow, 8/20 and tune in wherever you listen to your podcasts.

AI News You Should Know

GPT-5 Learns Some Manners - Remember GPT-5’s bumpy debut? Well, Open AI went back to the drawing board and gave it a personality makeoever. Now it’s dropping little gems like “Good question” to make chats feel way less robotic and more conversational and human.

Building on GPT5’s release, Microsoft rolled out GPT-5 to Copilot across all platforms, with a new “Smart Mode” that automatically chooses how deeply to help, from quick answers to detailed, complex reasoning. No technical setup required—just ask and start using it.

Get AI Smart

The future of AI browsers is here with the recent release of Comet from Perplexity. Unified AI search, instant context and automation across every site. Summarize, research, shop and more all in the browser. Check out the demo below!

Your AI Playbook

Stay ahead in real estate with our AI playbook that captures all the recent enhancements and how they benefit real estate professionals, packed with strategies to make you an AI-skilled agent. Bookmark it for easy reference!

Always be curious,

-Rajeev

P.S: This newsletter is 100% human-generated by Rajeev.