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Repair requests coming in at all hours, entry notices to send, listings to write and a trust account to balance every month. An agency's paperwork never really stops.
AI can draft a fair bit of it for your team to check. Your listings and your trust records need more care, since the law holds you to both. Let's sort out where the line sits for your office.
It starts with a free 30-minute call. See a sample Audit.
Is it for you?
Does this sound like your agency?
Someone's offered to tidy the photos
An app can brighten the walls or take out the powerlines in a few seconds, and you're not sure where that crosses into misleading.
Your property managers are snowed under
Repair requests, inspection notices and owner questions land faster than anyone can answer them.
You're careful about the trust account
You'd like help with the month-end, but you want to know nothing will change the ledgers first.
The admin
4 jobs that fill an agency's week
Sorting tenant repair requests
Every request has to be read and sorted. A burst pipe, no hot water or a broken smoke alarm is an emergency under the tenancy laws. A dripping tap can wait.
If you don't already use a maintenance app that does this, AI can sort the requests against the Act's list, draft the reply to the tenant and the job note for your repairer. A property manager makes the call on anything unclear and checks the reply.
Booking routine inspections
Each one needs an entry notice at least 7 days ahead, and no more than one every 3 months unless the tenant agrees in writing.
If your property software books them in, AI can check the dates against the last visit, draft the notices, and turn your notes from the day into the owner's report. Your property manager checks and sends them.
Writing listings
Turning an agent's notes and the photos into listing copy for each site, often late in the day.
AI can draft it. The agent checks every claim against the property, and anything on value or rental return needs facts behind it before it goes out.
The trust account month-end
Reconciling within 5 days of the month's end, keeping the hard copies, getting owners their statements, and having the year's papers ready for the auditor.
AI can keep the checklist, draft the cover note for each owner's statement, and list what the auditor will ask for. It doesn't write to, change or delete anything in the trust records. Your trust software and your principal do that.
Sample Audit
See a sample Audit for an agency like yours
It's the full report for a made-up Toowoomba real estate agency, four jobs and all, with real products and prices as they were in October 2026. Yours follows the same layout, with your own jobs, and it may look different as I keep improving the Audit.
- Each job sorted into what AI can take on, what it does with a person checking, and what stays with your people
- The products for each job, with their prices
- Your industry's rules and guidance on AI
Your rules
What real estate agencies have to watch with AI
In Queensland, the Property Occupations Act, the Office of Fair Trading and the trust account rules set the line, and from 1 July 2026 AUSTRAC does too for sales work. None of the trust account rules or the Office of Fair Trading's advertising guidance has a rule about AI as such. The rules you already follow apply to whatever AI writes. This isn't legal advice. Your own adviser has the last word.
- You mustn't say anything false or misleading about letting, exchanging or selling property. A claim you've got no reasonable grounds for counts as misleading, and it's on you to show the grounds.
- That holds when AI wrote the words. A lawyer's article on the REIQ's site says an agent can still be liable even without knowing the AI got it wrong.
- Photo edits that change how a place looks can mislead: lighter walls, rooms or yards that look bigger, or powerlines, trees or a neighbour's water tower taken out. Cleaning up and bringing in extra lights before the shoot is fine.
- The Office of Fair Trading notes the penalty for a false or misleading claim about selling property can reach $2.5 million per breach for an individual under the Australian Consumer Law, and far more for a company.
- If your trust account is on software, the system mustn't let a trust ledger be deleted while there's money in it, any change to a transaction goes in as a new entry, and its records come out in date order. It has to be backed up at least monthly and kept somewhere else, and the records are kept for 5 years.
- Your trust account is audited every year, and the licensee answers for getting the report in on time, even when the auditor lodges it.
- Since 1 July 2026, brokering the sale, purchase or transfer of real estate is covered by the AML/CTF rules, and the Privacy Act then covers your AML/CTF work whatever your turnover.
- Leasing on its own isn't covered, since leases of 30 years or less aren't real estate under the AML/CTF Act.
- Agents aren't meant to give legal advice, and an AI answer to a legal question can be wrong in ways that are hard to spot.
Where AI should stay out
- Writing to, changing or deleting anything in your trust records. That stays with your trust software and the people who sign for it.
- Editing listing photos in a way that changes what the property looks like.
- The final word on any claim about price, value or rental return. An agent who knows the facts signs that off.
- Answering a buyer's, seller's or tenant's legal question. Point them to their own lawyer.
Book a callA free 30-minute call about your agency.
How I'd start
Three ways in
- Workflow Audit: I come to your office and sort every job into what AI can take on, what it does with a person checking, and what stays with your people.
- Claude Set-up and Onboarding: Claude set up properly from day one, with a written AI use policy.
- AI use policy: a written policy on its own, if you're not ready for a set-up.
Hi, I'm Chad.
AI is changing how small businesses work, and it's moving fast. I want to help you understand it well enough to make good decisions: what to hand over, what to check, and what to keep with your people.
I've built my own business on Claude. My social media runs on it, from writing the posts to scheduling them, and it works to rules I've set and maintain. I've got automated workflows right across the business, from mail and contacts to research and planning. Doing it myself is how I've learned what works and what doesn't.
I'm based in Toowoomba, I'll come to you, and you'll deal with me from start to finish.
- Privacy's part of every job.
- When I report on the AI tools your people use, I name the tools and the jobs. I don't say who uses what.
Questions
Things agents and property managers ask
Can AI write our listings?
It can draft them. The Act covers what you say about rentals as well as sales, and you stay responsible for every claim whoever wrote it. So someone who knows the property reads each one before it goes up.
Is it safe to let AI near our trust account?
The rules don't mention AI. They do say your trust software can't delete a ledger that still has money in it, and has to record every change as its own entry. I'd keep AI to the paperwork around the trust account, like checklists and cover notes, and out of the records themselves.
Can we touch up listing photos with AI?
Cleaning up and better lighting before the shoot are fine. Changes to what the place looks like can mislead, like brighter paint, bigger rooms or a view with the powerlines gone. Photos should show the property as it is now.
How do I book?
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll go through how your agency runs and pick a place to start.
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