Real estate AI agents assist with property searches, valuations, client communication, and transaction management. The industry's strict fair housing requirements and the financial magnitude of real estate transactions demand careful safety controls.
The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. AI agents must comply absolutely with these requirements.
Configure Authensor policies that:
Block the agent from using protected characteristics in property recommendations. Prevent steering, which is directing clients toward or away from neighborhoods based on demographic composition. Prohibit the agent from describing neighborhoods in terms of their racial or ethnic composition. Flag language that implies preference for certain types of residents.
Authensor's Aegis scanner can detect fair housing violations in agent outputs, checking for discriminatory language patterns and steering indicators.
Real estate transactions involve contracts, disclosures, and legal documents. Agents that prepare or modify these documents need strict controls.
Version control. Track every modification to transaction documents. Authensor's receipt chain records each change with the agent ID, timestamp, and policy authorization.
Template compliance. Ensure generated documents use approved templates and include all required disclosures. Policy rules validate document structure before the agent presents it to clients.
Signature authority. Agents should never sign documents on behalf of clients. Configure approval workflows that require human confirmation for any action that implies contractual commitment.
AI agents providing property valuations must include appropriate disclaimers and avoid presenting estimates as appraisals. Configure policies that: require confidence intervals on all valuations, include disclaimers that valuations are estimates only, block the agent from providing valuations in contexts where a licensed appraisal is legally required.
Real estate agents access financial information (income, credit scores), personal details, and property ownership records. Apply data minimization policies. A showing agent needs property addresses but not client financial details. A mortgage agent needs financial details but not property viewing history.
Real estate wire fraud is a significant risk. Configure agents to never transmit wire instructions, bank account numbers, or routing numbers. These should always go through verified human-to-human channels.
Log and monitor any attempt by an agent to share financial transfer information, as this is a strong indicator of social engineering or compromise.
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