Preparing for a valuation appointment
Builds the pack you take to a market appraisal from sold prices, the current competition and your own sales nearby, before you leave the office.
This page lists the work in a UK property business that Claude can take on, by function and by the kind of business: residential sales, lettings and management, development and commercial agency. It is written for owners and directors. The valuations, negotiations and judgements stay with your people. Claude takes the proposals, updates, chasing and paperwork around them, which is where clients are most often won and lost.
A sales agent's week turns on valuations, vendor updates and dozens of sales in progression. A lettings team's turns on repairs, certificates and landlords who want answers now. A developer's turns on land, planning, lenders and buyers waiting for their keys. A commercial agent's turns on pitches, requirements and lease dates. Pick the one closest to yours and the rest of the page follows it, from where the time goes to the twelve month picture.
These are the tasks that come round every week in a sales agency, grouped by the kind of work they are.
These are the tasks that come round every week in a lettings and management business, grouped by the kind of work they are.
These are the tasks that come round every week in a smaller development business, grouped by the kind of work they are.
These are the tasks that come round every week in a commercial agency, grouped by the kind of work they are.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why a client instructs the business and trusts it. The work in the right column is what has grown up around it, and on most days it takes more of the week.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why a client instructs the business and trusts it. The work in the right column is what has grown up around it, and on most days it takes more of the week.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why a client instructs the business and trusts it. The work in the right column is what has grown up around it, and on most days it takes more of the week.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why a client instructs the business and trusts it. The work in the right column is what has grown up around it, and on most days it takes more of the week.
The use case for AI is taking away the time that gets spent on the work sitting around the job, and freeing your people up to do the work only a human can do. The work that grows the business, and the work they enjoy the most.
The times are our own estimates for a typical task in a property business of 5 to 100 people. Nobody has published measured times for this work, so where a source gives a figure we say who published it. Every use case assumes a business plan whose terms keep client data out of model training, and client and tenant data handled under UK GDPR. The highlighted use cases either take the most hours or make the biggest difference to winning and keeping clients.
Winning the instruction, the landlord, the site or the mandate.
Builds the pack you take to a market appraisal from sold prices, the current competition and your own sales nearby, before you leave the office.
Turns your notes from the appraisal into the valuation letter and proposal in your own layout, so it reaches the seller while other agents are still writing theirs.
Works through every appraisal from recent months that has not turned into an instruction, and drafts a follow-up for each from what was said at the visit and what has happened since.
Checks the portals for homes in your patch that have sat on the market, been reduced or been withdrawn, and matches them against your own past appraisals and registered buyers.
Writes the letters to the streets around a new instruction or a sale agreed, specific to the street and the house type, in place of a generic leaflet.
Writes the rental appraisal from your visit notes, with the achievable rent, the evidence for it, your service levels and fees, and what the property needs before it can be let.
Writes a plain guide for self-managing landlords in your area on what the Renters' Rights Act and the new landlord database ask of them, and a short series of emails to go with it.
Searches the planning registers, land for sale and title plans in your target areas for sites that fit your schemes, and screens each one against the constraints you care about.
Drafts a personal approach to the owner of each site on your shortlist and keeps a follow-up running, so no approach is forgotten while you deal with live schemes.
Runs a first residual appraisal from your own build costs, fees and finance terms and the sold prices nearby, in your template, so you can decide in a day whether a site is worth chasing.
Drafts the offer letter and heads of terms for a land deal, whether unconditional, subject to planning or an option, from the terms you have agreed with the landowner.
Writes the internal paper for buying a site from the appraisal, the planning view and the due diligence, so the decision is made on a document rather than a phone call.
Drafts your pitch for a letting, sale or acquisition from your own deals, comparable evidence and past pitches, in your house layout, so the time goes on the strategy.
Drafts the fee proposal and terms of engagement from your standard terms and what you agreed, including the AI disclosure the RICS standard now expects where it applies.
Gathers what is public about companies in your patch, such as filings, headcount changes and news of moves, and matches it to the lease events you already know about.
The update sent before the client has to ask for it.
Writes each seller's weekly update from the views, enquiries, viewings and feedback in your CRM and the portal figures, in your voice, before they have to ring and ask.
Reviews every listing each week for the signs a seller may switch agent: no viewings for a fortnight, a tie-in about to end, unanswered calls, or a reduction refused.
Assembles the evidence for a price review: views and enquiries on the listing against similar homes, the feedback themes, and what has sold or been reduced nearby since launch.
Turns your quick notes or a voice memo after a viewing into feedback for the seller or landlord, in plain words and in the same format every time.
Writes each landlord's monthly update from your accounts, repair log, certificate dates and inbox, so the picture they get draws on every system you run.
Drafts replies to the questions that arrive every day, such as when the rent was paid or when the plumber is coming, from the records you already hold.
Writes to each landlord about what the Renters' Rights Act and the new database mean for their own lets, using the tenancies, rents and certificates you hold for them.
Writes each buyer a monthly update on their plot from the site diary, the photos and the programme, with any change to the expected completion date stated plainly.
Writes regular updates to landowners whose land is under option or promotion, from your planning tracker, so they hear from you before the planning portal tells them anything.
Builds the marketing report for each instruction from the enquiries, inspections, feedback and offers in your CRM and inbox, in the format the client asked for.
Keeps a schedule of every lease an occupier client holds, with the rent reviews, breaks and expiries due, and writes the quarterly note on what is coming up.
Getting the facts and the copy right before anything goes live.
Pulls the facts a listing must show from the title, the council tax band, flood and planning records and the client's questionnaire, and checks them against each other.
Writes the description, key features and room schedule from your measure-up notes and photos, in your house style, and checks every claim against the material information.
Rewrites the listing, the brochure and the email to your buyers when the price changes, so the relaunch reads as a new opportunity.
Checks each lettings advert before it goes live for what the Renters' Rights Act now requires: a stated rent, no invitation to bid, and no wording that turns away families or people on benefits.
Writes the brochure text, specification sheets, plot descriptions and portal listings for a new scheme from your drawings, specification and price list.
Sends your selling agents the current plot availability, prices, incentives and build dates every week, so their negotiators never quote an old price.
Compares your plot prices with recent sales and competing new homes nearby, adjusted for size and specification as you instruct, before you release a phase.
Writes the particulars from your inspection notes, measured areas and photos: the location, accommodation schedule, terms, rates, service charge, EPC and legal costs.
Prepares the same instruction for each listing platform, the deals database and your mailing, in the format each one asks for, from one set of approved particulars.
Drafts the investment memorandum and tenancy schedule from the leases, the rent roll and your pricing view, and indexes the data room.
Negotiators, answering every enquiry and filling the viewing diary.
Reads the enquiries that came in overnight from the portals, your website, email and WhatsApp, and drafts a reply to each from what was asked and what you hold on the property.
Picks out the enquiries that mention selling or a valuation from every channel, and checks each has had a reply and a call booked within your own deadline.
Matches each new listing against the applicants on your books, using what they told you as well as the search fields, and drafts a personal message to each good match.
Turns a registration call or form into a qualified applicant record: position, chain, funding or income, timing, and what they actually need from a home.
Turns agreed viewing times into confirmations for the applicant and the seller or tenant, with access arrangements and a reminder the day before.
The negotiator, putting offers to the seller and checking the buyer.
Writes the notice of each offer to the seller with the buyer's position, chain, funding and conditions, so every offer reaches the seller promptly and in writing.
Checks a buyer's proof of funds, agreement in principle and chain details against each other and against the offer, before the sale is agreed.
Writes the best and final instructions to every bidder on the same terms at the same time, then lays the bids out side by side for the seller.
Produces the memorandum of sale and the welcome letters for the buyer and the seller from the agreed offer, and sends the solicitors what they need to start.
Writes a plain guide for each first-time buyer on what happens between the offer and getting the keys, with their own solicitor, broker and dates filled in.
Chasing every party until the deal completes.
Reads the correspondence on every live sale each morning and drafts the chasers to solicitors, brokers and other agents, saying exactly what is outstanding and from whom.
Writes each buyer and seller a weekly update from the sale's actual correspondence, saying what is done, what is waiting, and what they themselves still owe.
Builds the branch's progression report and exchange forecast from every live sale, marking the ones at risk and why.
Reads the survey and pulls out the items the buyer is likely to raise, with any quotes you hold, so you can prepare both sides before the renegotiation starts.
Pulls together everyone who viewed, offered or matched the home the moment a sale falls through, and drafts the messages to the strongest of them the same day.
Chases buyers' solicitors and brokers on every reserved plot and writes the weekly progression report, with exchange deadlines under your reservation terms marked.
Prepares the reservation agreement and pre-contract information for each plot from your templates, checked against what the New Homes Quality Code requires.
Collects each buyer's kitchen, flooring and extras choices, checks them against your options list and cut-off dates, and confirms them in writing to the buyer and the site.
Drafts heads of terms from the points you agreed in negotiation, in your template, covering every heading the RICS leasing code expects.
Tracks every deal in solicitors' hands, drafts the chasers for the draft lease, licences and consents, and writes the weekly update to your client.
Lays out each offer on a vacant unit side by side, with the rent, incentives, term, breaks and covenant, so the landlord compares like with like.
Lettings negotiators and administrators, taking a let from offer to keys.
Tracks each step between an agreed let and the move-in, from referencing and Right to Rent to the deposit and inventory, and chases whatever is outstanding.
Prepares the written terms, the move-in pack and the deposit prescribed information for each let from your templates, checked for the periodic tenancy rules in force since May 2026.
Reads the referencing report, the application and the applicant's documents, and writes the landlord a plain summary with anything that does not add up.
Logs each pet request, puts it to the landlord with the facts they need, and drafts the reply to the tenant within the 28 days the Renters' Rights Act allows.
Property managers, between tenants, contractors and landlords all day.
Reads each repair report however it arrived, sorts it by urgency against your rules, and drafts the work order, the landlord approval request and the tenant's acknowledgement.
Follows every open job between tenant, contractor and landlord, chases the next step on each, and tells the tenant and landlord when it moves.
Records each damp or mould report with dates, photos and actions, in a form that would meet the timescales proposed under Awaab's Law, and drafts the written summary for the tenant.
Turns your photos and voice notes from a routine inspection into the report for the landlord, with the actions and costs where you have them.
The lettings accounts team, collecting rent and paying landlords right.
Reads each landlord's statement and writes a short note explaining any deduction, invoice or arrears on it.
Writes staged arrears letters and messages from your ledger, keeps the arrears schedule a possession claim would need, and tells the landlord where things stand.
Matches the month's rent receipts and payments against the client ledger and the bank statement, and lists everything that does not reconcile.
Turns each landlord's quarter of rent, fees and costs into a categorised summary their accountant or software can use for the quarterly update.
Property managers, handling the events that come round every year.
Prepares each rent review from the current rent and lets nearby, writes the recommendation to the landlord, and drafts the section 13 notice with the dates worked out.
Compares the check-out report with the check-in inventory and drafts a deduction proposal with the evidence for each item.
Assembles the evidence for the possession ground the landlord is relying on, with the notice period and dates for that ground, now that section 21 has gone.
Writes each landlord's annual review: rent against the market, repairs and their cost, compliance coming due, and the rule changes that affect their lets.
The MD or development manager, getting and keeping a permission.
Checks your planning application against the council's local validation list and the national requirements before submission, so it is not sent back for something missing.
Summarises each consultee response and officer query as it appears on the planning portal, and drafts the reply or the brief to the consultant who needs to answer it.
Reads the decision notice and the section 106 agreement and lists every condition and obligation, with its trigger and who has to discharge it.
Checks whether a site could fall under the biodiversity net gain exemption for sites of 0.2 hectares or less, which applies to applications from 6 August 2026.
Writes the leaflet, the exhibition boards and the webpage for a community consultation from the scheme drawings, and summarises the responses afterwards.
The MD and the QS, keeping lenders and investors confident.
Assembles the lender's monthly drawdown pack from the QS's cost report, the site diary and photos, the programme and the sales position, and notes what changed since last month.
Puts together the lender's application pack from the appraisal, cost plan, programme, cash flow, planning consent and your track record.
Writes the quarterly update for investors and equity partners from the appraisal, the drawdown packs and the sales position.
Updates the live appraisal on each scheme when costs, sales prices or finance terms move, and shows the effect on the profit.
Site managers and the QS, recording the build and paying for it.
Lays the tenders for a package side by side against your specification, and lists what each one excludes, qualifies or prices differently.
Turns the site manager's voice notes and photos into the daily diary, the labour return and the minutes of the weekly site meeting.
Writes the narrative for the QS's monthly cost and value report from the figures, explaining each variance in plain words.
Tracks each subcontractor's application against the payment dates in their contract, and drafts each payment and pay less notice from the valuation.
Logs each request for information and each variation from emails and site notes, chases the answers, and records the cost and time effect when it is agreed.
Customer care, looking after buyers for two years after they move in.
Turns buyers' snag reports and photos into jobs for the right trade, acknowledges each buyer, and updates them as the items close.
Tracks each complaint against the code's deadlines and drafts each letter, from the acknowledgement within 5 days to the update every 28 days.
Assembles the handover pack for each plot from the certificates, warranties, manuals and meter readings, with a plain guide to the home.
Reads the comments from your customer satisfaction surveys and complaints and groups them into themes by site, trade and stage.
Surveyors, matching occupiers to space across every database.
Matches each occupier requirement that arrives against your own instructions, the deals databases and other agents' circulars, and drafts the shortlist email.
Rebuilds your availability schedule each week from your instructions and the databases, with the changes since last week marked.
Builds the comparison report for an occupier from the shortlisted options, setting out total occupancy cost, lease terms, fit-out and location, including flexible office options where relevant.
Turns a shortlist into an inspection tour with times, routes, access contacts and a one page sheet on each building for the client to take round.
Pulls comparable deals from your own records and the deals databases into a branded schedule, with each adjusted for size, date and terms as you instruct.
Replies to each enquiry on your instructions with the particulars, the terms and the questions you need answered about the occupier, and books the inspection.
Lease advisory surveyors, working to the dates set in each lease.
Reads a lease and pulls the rent reviews, breaks, expiry, repairing obligations, alienation and 1954 Act position into your diary, with the clause numbers.
Assembles the evidence for a rent review: the review clause, its assumptions and disregards, the comparables and the timetable.
Turns your inspection notes and photos into a schedule of dilapidations in the protocol format, with each item tied to the lease clause, the breach and the remedy.
Works out the notice windows for a renewal under the 1954 Act, drafts the client's options letter, and keeps the dates in the diary.
Reads the heads of terms and draft leases in your pipeline for upward-only rent review clauses that the 2026 Act will catch once it commences.
Drafts replies to tenants' service charge queries from the budget, the year-end accounts and the invoices, for firms that manage as well as let.
Keeping the records the regulators and redress schemes expect.
Checks each client's AML file against your own policy: the ID check, the risk assessment, source of funds where it is needed, and the reasons for your decision.
Drafts your annual firm-wide risk assessment and policy review from last year's version, your client mix and the latest HMRC guidance, and lists what changed.
Produces the terms of business for each instruction from your master terms, with the fee, the agency type and the cancellation notice that applies when terms are signed at the seller's home.
Checks how your website, portal profiles and review pages show fees and reviews against the consumer law in force since April 2025.
Reads each certificate as it arrives, sets the next due date, and chases renewals for gas, electrics, EPCs and licences in time to arrange access with the tenant.
Works out which region each managed property is in, when the landlord database opens there and the deadline, and prepares what each landlord needs to register.
Keeps the dutyholder appointments, competence confirmations, construction phase plan and building control compliance declarations in order for each scheme.
Records for each building when the building control documents went in and when work started, against the Future Homes Standard transition dates.
Books the key stage inspections with the warranty provider and building control from the programme, and records each result and anything to put right.
Keeps your register of AI systems and your risk register up to date, and drafts the client disclosure wording for your terms of engagement.
Lists the EPC rating and expiry of every unit you let or manage, and marks those that cannot be let or would fall short of the proposed EPC B rule for large buildings from 2031.
Owners and valuers, working the database nobody has time for.
Picks out past clients in your CRM who are likely to need you again, such as buyers five years into a home or an occupier with a break coming, and writes each a personal note.
Sends a personal review request at completion or move-in, and drafts a reply to each new review on Google and the review sites.
Reads your CRM for valuations that never instructed, landlords who left, applicants who are now likely sellers, and tenants who may now buy.
Writes your quarterly market report from your own deals, the public transaction figures and your team's view, in your brand, for clients and prospects.
Keeps a list of the solicitors, accountants and other agents who send you work, and drafts a personal note to each when there is something worth telling them.
The owner's week, the numbers and the team.
Pulls last week's figures from your CRM, accounts and diary into one page against target, so Monday's meeting starts from the same facts.
Brings planning, build progress, costs, sales and cash on every scheme into one weekly page, from the trackers each person already keeps.
Turns the recording or notes of a client, team or site meeting into a summary with actions, owners and dates, filed against the right client or scheme.
Builds the chronology of a complaint from the file and the correspondence, and drafts your final response so that it answers every point raised.
Builds a first fortnight for a new negotiator, property manager, surveyor or site manager from your own procedures, with the documents to read and the questions they should be able to answer.
The rules and templates you would otherwise pay to have bolted on.
Puts your procedures, templates, fee rules and past answers into a Claude project that anyone in the firm can ask, so new starters stop interrupting the person who knows.
Turns your best proposals, updates and reports into skills that write every new one in your voice, whichever CRM or system you run.
Builds a small internal tool with Claude Code, such as a progression board, a landlord dashboard or a scheme tracker, that reads exports from the systems you already pay for.
Time is the easy part to count. The other parts are winning business, keeping clients and owning what you build. Each has published evidence behind it, and each has a limit that we state next to it. The evidence changes with the kind of business you picked.
Sellers judge an agent on how often they hear from them, and the busiest weeks are the ones where updates slip. Claude drafts every vendor update and progress update from your own CRM and inbox, and your team reads and sends them.
The detailCloseWe do not claim Claude cuts your fall-through rate by any percentage, because nobody has published a figure we would defend. The surveys measure what sellers say they want, which is not the same as what makes them stay. Nothing goes to a client until someone in your team has approved it.
Most sellers see more than one agent, and the instruction is often decided in the day after the visit. Claude turns the valuer's notes into the proposal that afternoon, keeps a follow-up going on every appraisal that has not instructed, and finds the sellers other agents have not sold.
The detailCloseNo independent study shows how many more instructions a faster proposal wins, so we do not promise a conversion rate. The proposal and mystery shop figures come from companies that sell to agents. The valuation and the relationship still win the instruction.
The proposal templates, update skills and progression checks we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business. They keep working if you change CRM, because they are not features inside one vendor's software.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM, your portals or your client accounting, and the AI your CRM already includes may cover some of this page. Client data stays subject to your terms and UK GDPR, so we agree what goes where before anything is built. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. This is not legal advice.
Landlords leave agents who are slow to answer, and the answers usually sit in four systems at once: the accounts, the repair log, the certificates and the inbox. Claude draws them into one update for each landlord every month and drafts the replies to routine questions.
The detailCloseWe do not claim a retention rate, because no study links landlord updates to how long landlords stay. Claude does not give legal advice on the Renters' Rights Act or on possession, and every update is approved by your team before it goes.
The Renters' Rights Act, the landlord database and Making Tax Digital give self-managing landlords new reasons to want an agent. Claude drafts the appraisals, guides and annual reviews that put your knowledge in front of them, and your team checks every word.
The detailCloseNo study shows how many landlords move to an agent because of the new rules, so we give no number. The August survey is small, self-selected and run by a business that sells to self-managing landlords. The advice on the law has to be your own.
The landlord updates, compliance checks and rent review packs we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business. They work across your lettings software, accounts and inbox rather than inside one of them.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM, your portals or your client accounting, and the AI your CRM already includes may cover some of this page. Client data stays subject to your terms and UK GDPR, so we agree what goes where before anything is built. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. This is not legal advice.
Much of what goes wrong with a new home buyer is a slow or missing reply: a moved date nobody explained, or a snag nobody closed. Claude drafts the build updates, snag acknowledgements and code letters from your own site records, and your team sends them.
The detailCloseWe do not claim a change to your star rating or your complaint numbers. The ombudsman's figures cover the developers registered with it, and many smaller builders are not in the HBF ratings. Claude does not judge whether something is a defect, and nothing goes to a buyer unchecked.
Land tends to go to the developer who is in front of the landowner early with a credible offer. Claude screens sites, runs first-look appraisals in your template and keeps every landowner approach followed up, so the MD spends time on the sites worth buying.
The detailCloseNo study shows a smaller developer wins more land by appraising faster, so we give no number. Claude does not decide the planning strategy or the price, and the FMB's published pages do not state the survey's sample size.
The appraisal template, lender pack and planning tracker we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business. The logic in your best spreadsheet stops depending on the one person who built it.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your appraisal software, accounts or site apps, and your lender's and warranty provider's requirements still apply in full. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. This is not legal advice.
Landlord and occupier clients judge an agent between deals on the reports and the reminders: the marketing report that arrives when promised, and the break date raised a year early. Claude builds the reports from your CRM and inbox and keeps the lease diary, and your surveyors write the advice.
The detailCloseWe found no published figure for how often commercial clients re-instruct their agent, or why, so we give none. Claude does not interpret leases or form opinions of rent. Under the RICS standard a named surveyor signs off any material output.
Instructions and searches go to the agent who answers with the right options first. Claude matches requirements across your own instructions and the databases you pay for, drafts pitches from your own deals, and keeps your availability current.
The detailCloseNobody has published a win rate for commercial pitches, so we give none. Database terms decide what you may copy or share, so we check them before building anything that reads them. The pricing view in a pitch stays with your surveyors.
The pitch library, comparable schedules and lease diary we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your firm, alongside the register of AI systems the RICS standard asks for.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM or the databases you subscribe to, and their terms decide what may be copied or shared. Material outputs still need a named surveyor's sign-off under the RICS standard. Someone in your firm maintains what is built, and we agree who. This is not legal advice.
Every figure names who published it. Where nobody independent has published one, we leave the number out. Much of the property evidence comes from portals and from companies that sell software to agents, and we say so each time.
Nobody independent has published how many hours a week property teams spend on this work, so put in your own.
Costed at £32 an hour. An hour is costed from that salary plus employer National Insurance and pension, over 1,740 hours. No overhead is added.
The default salary of £27,000 is the average for estate agents in ONS data for 2024 to 2025, as analysed by the Daily Telegraph. This values the hours at what they cost and nothing more. A sale that does not fall through is worth more: GetAgent, an agent comparison site, put the average sales fee at £3,909 excluding VAT at the end of 2025.
Not a bigger business. The same business, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone.
Not a bigger business. The same business, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone.
Not a bigger business. The same business, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone.
Not a bigger business. The same business, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone.
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