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Real estate brokerage leaders’ AI worry score rises in 2026
The average AI worry score among brokerage leaders climbed to 6.38 out of 10 in 2026, with agentic AI driving fresh concerns about compliance, data security, liability, and accountability.
Brokerage leaders are showing greater concern about artificial intelligence, according to HousingWire, with the average AI “worry score” rebounding to 6.38 out of 10 in 2026 after dipping in 2025. The worry score compares with 6.50 in 2024, while the share of leaders assigning a high worry score of 8, 9, or 10 fell from 42.4% in 2024 to 33.7% in 2025 before rising to 37.9% in 2026.
HousingWire reports the Delta Media Real Estate AI and Leadership Survey suggests the pickup may be tied to brokerages moving beyond basic AI tools toward agentic AI, automation, and systems that can take action. The survey notes it does not prove agentic AI caused the increased concern, but its emergence raises additional questions for compliance, data security, liability, and accountability when AI systems perform tasks.
The findings also show AI concerns vary by leader and brokerage size. HousingWire reports 71.4% of female brokerage leaders cited compliance with real estate regulations as an AI concern versus 39.1% of male respondents, and data privacy and security was cited by 65.7% of women versus 48.4% of men.
By contrast, male respondents were more likely to flag uncertainty around AI costs and return on investment, with 51.6% identifying it as a concern versus 28.6% of female respondents, HousingWire adds. Brokerage size shaped priorities as well, with firms of 101 or more agents most focused on data privacy and security, integration with existing systems, cost and ROI uncertainty, and training agents and staff, while smaller firms with 20 or fewer agents were far more focused on regulatory compliance, with 75% citing it.