Rent or lease properties on behalf of clients.

“Rent or lease properties on behalf of clients.” is a supplemental task performed by Real Estate Sales Agents. Among the occupation's 33 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#31 most important). About 70% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Sell products or services. in Selling or Influencing Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.003% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 42% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: task iteration
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.1 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 94% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Present purchase offers to sellers for consideration. · importance 4.9
• Prepare documents such as representation contracts, purchase agreements, closing statements, deeds, and leases. · importance 4.9
• Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers, generally representing one or the other. · importance 4.8
• Confer with escrow companies, lenders, home inspectors, and pest control operators to ensure that terms and conditions of purchase agreements are met before closing dates. · importance 4.7
• Generate lists of properties that are compatible with buyers' needs and financial resources. · importance 4.7
• Promote sales of properties through advertisements, open houses, and participation in multiple listing services. · importance 4.6
• Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price. · importance 4.6
• Coordinate property closings, overseeing signing of documents and disbursement of funds. · importance 4.6
• Interview clients to determine what kinds of properties they are seeking. · importance 4.4
• Contact previous clients for prospecting of referral business. · importance 4.4
• Review property listings, trade journals, and relevant literature, and attend conventions, seminars, and staff and association meetings, to remain knowledgeable about real estate markets. · importance 4.3
• Coordinate appointments to show homes to prospective buyers. · importance 4.3
• Answer clients' questions regarding construction work, financing, maintenance, repairs, and appraisals. · importance 4.3
• Advise sellers on how to make homes more appealing to potential buyers. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Real Estate Sales Agents page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Rent or lease properties on behalf of clients.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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