Who does AI recommend for real estate agents in Tampa?

In our October 2026 check, Perplexity and Gemini named Keller Williams Tampa Properties (14 of 20 checks), Andrew Duncan (12 of 20 checks) and Jacqueline Toledo (9 of 20 checks) most often across 10 buyer questions asked three times each.

Do Perplexity and Gemini recommend the same real estate agents?

Only partly. 10 of the 55 real estate agents named were named by both. Perplexity named Jacqueline Toledo most (8 of 10 questions); Gemini named Brenda Wade most (9 of 10 questions).

Which websites does AI cite for real estate agents in Tampa?

The most-cited sites were fastexpert.com (51 of 60 answers), 2collegebrothers.com (30 of 60 answers) and homelight.com (30 of 60 answers). Of all 627 citations, 40.2% went to company websites, 27.6% to directories and review sites and 29.3% to best-of lists.

Was ChatGPT measured?

Not measured in this edition: our OpenAI API credit was at $0 when the answers were collected, so no ChatGPT number is shown or estimated.

How was this measured?

We asked Perplexity and Gemini the same 10 buyer questions through their APIs, three times each (October 4, 2026). A real estate agent counts as named when its name is written in the answer itself in at least 2 of the 3 runs; a link alone does not count. Every answer and citation is published as JSON.

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Original research · October 4, 2026

Who AI recommends for real estate agents in Tampa, and which sources it cites

We asked Perplexity and Gemini 10 questions a home buyer or seller in Tampa would ask, three times each (60 answers, October 4, 2026). Keller Williams Tampa Properties was named most: in 14 of 20 question checks. 55 real estate agents were named on at least one check. The most-cited site was fastexpert.com, in 51 of 60 answers. ChatGPT was not measured in this edition.

By Matt Turley60 answers627 citations10 questionsPerplexity and GeminiChatGPT not measured

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Table 1 · Who gets named

The real estate agents AI named

A check is one question on one AI tool, asked three times. A real estate agent counts on a check when it was named in at least 2 of the three answers. Perplexity and Gemini together make 20 checks.

real estate agents in Tampa named by majority, October 2026 (top 15 of 55)
#	Business	Checks named (of 20)	Perplexity (of 10)	Gemini (of 10)	Answers naming it (of 60)
1	Keller Williams Tampa Properties	14	7	7	35
2	Andrew Duncan	12	7	5	36
3	Jacqueline Toledo	9	8	1	29
4	Raymond Mihara	9	2	7	25
5	Smith & Associates Real Estate	9	2	7	25
6	Brenda Wade	9	0	9	27
7	Kristen Arseneau	8	0	8	21
8	Maria Hoffman	8	0	8	21
9	Liz Piedra	7	0	7	20
10	Horizon Palm Realty Group	7	0	7	19
11	Jennifer Zales	6	3	3	18
12	Coldwell Banker	6	0	6	18
13	LPT Realty	6	6	0	18
14	Signature Realty Associates	6	0	6	18
15	Hector Contreras	6	0	6	15

Small sample, read it as a snapshot: 10 questions, two AI tools, three runs each, on October 4, 2026. A lead of one or two checks is within the run-to-run noise. This says nothing about the quality of anyone's work, and a real estate agent missing here was simply not named in most runs of these answers.

Table 2 · By AI tool

Perplexity and Gemini only partly agree

10 of the 55 real estate agents named were named by both tools. The rest were named by one tool only.

Each AI tool on the same 10 questions
AI tool	Answers	Named by majority	Named most	Citations per answer
Perplexity sonar	30	26	Jacqueline Toledo (8 of 10 questions, 80.0%)	14.4
Gemini gemini-2.5-flash	30	39	Brenda Wade (9 of 10 questions, 90.0%)	6.5
ChatGPT	Not measured in this edition

Chart · Source types

What the answers read before they name anyone

Every site an answer cited, counted once per answer and sorted by type with the same rules as our September study of AI answer sources.

Both tools627 citations

40%28%29%

Perplexity432 citations · 14.4 per answer

36%38%23%

Gemini195 citations · 6.5 per answer

50%44%

Company websites Directories and review sites Best-of lists and comparisons Reddit, forums, social and video News, docs and reference

Table 3 · Top cited sites

The 15 sites cited most

Counted as answers citing the site at least once, out of 60. These are the pages to be on.

fastexpert.comBest-of lists and comparisons51 85.0%

2collegebrothers.comCompany websites30 50.0%

homelight.comBest-of lists and comparisons30 50.0%

zillow.comDirectories and review sites30 50.0%

expertise.comDirectories and review sites28 46.7%

realtor.comDirectories and review sites27 45.0%

tampamagazines.comBest-of lists and comparisons25 41.7%

choicehomewarranty.comBest-of lists and comparisons24 40.0%

ratemyagent.comCompany websites24 40.0%

effectiveagents.comDirectories and review sites22 36.7%

homes.comDirectories and review sites22 36.7%

triple.comCompany websites22 36.7%

bankrate.comCompany websites21 35.0%

epicagentspodcast.comBest-of lists and comparisons21 35.0%

jenniferzales.comCompany websites21 35.0%

Answers citing each site, by AI tool
Site	Type	Perplexity (of 30)	Gemini (of 30)
fastexpert.com	Best-of lists and comparisons	27	24
2collegebrothers.com	Company websites	3	27
homelight.com	Best-of lists and comparisons	24	6
zillow.com	Directories and review sites	30	0
expertise.com	Directories and review sites	27	1
realtor.com	Directories and review sites	27	0
tampamagazines.com	Best-of lists and comparisons	21	4
choicehomewarranty.com	Best-of lists and comparisons	6	18
ratemyagent.com	Company websites	24	0
effectiveagents.com	Directories and review sites	21	1
homes.com	Directories and review sites	21	1
triple.com	Company websites	0	22
bankrate.com	Company websites	21	0
epicagentspodcast.com	Best-of lists and comparisons	0	21
jenniferzales.com	Company websites	15	6

What to do with it

If you run a real estate agent in Tampa

Your customers already ask these AI tools who to call. The answers above are what they get back. The real estate agents named are the ones whose names show up on the sites the AI reads: the directories, review sites and best-of lists in Table 3, plus their own websites.

So start with the sites in Table 3. Make sure you are listed on the directories and review sites there, with your name written the same way everywhere. Find out who wrote the best-of lists and whether you belong on them. Then make your own site say plainly what you do, where you work and why people pick you, in the words a home buyer or seller uses.

Do not judge from one answer. The names move from run to run, which is why every check here is three runs and a name only counts when it shows up in most of them.

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Are you one of the real estate agents AI names?

This page covers the whole city. The AI Answer Check runs the same test on your own business: the questions your customers ask, three runs each on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, whether you are named, who is named instead, and the three fixes worth the most. I read every report before it goes out.

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Method

How we measured it

The 10 questions (frozen for this edition)

best real estate agent in Tampa
who is the best realtor in Tampa
best real estate agent to sell my house in Tampa
top listing agent in Tampa FL
best buyer's agent in Tampa
best real estate agent for first-time home buyers in Tampa
top rated real estate agent in Tampa with good reviews
who should I hire to sell my home in Tampa
best realtor for luxury homes in Tampa
recommend an honest real estate agent in Tampa who won't pressure me

AI tools

Perplexity: Perplexity API, sonar model, live web search; cited URLs from the citations field. 30 answers.
Gemini: Google Vertex AI, gemini-2.5-flash with Google Search grounding; cited URLs from grounding chunks. 30 answers.
ChatGPT: Not measured in this edition: our OpenAI API credit was at $0 when the answers were collected, so no ChatGPT number is shown or estimated.

These are the APIs, not the consumer apps. Nobody was signed in and there was no system prompt: the question was the whole input. Each question went to each tool three times on October 4, 2026.

Who counts as named

A list of the businesses the answers recommend was built first by reading every answer. Then each answer was checked for each name in its text, with links and citation chips removed, so a cited link alone never counts. Spelling variants count as one name: curly or straight apostrophes, hyphen variants, and “&” or “and”. A name counts on a question and tool when it appears in at least 2 of the three runs. Directories, review sites and platforms are never ranked.

Sources

A citation is a URL the API itself returns as a source (Perplexity's citations list, Gemini's grounding sources resolved from Google's redirect links). Each site counts once per answer. Source types come from a written rulebook, not a person reading every page, so some pages land in the wrong group, mostly between company sites, blogs and lists.

Data

Every run, with its timestamp, tool, model, question, full answer text and citations, is in the JSON file for this page (60 of 60 answers stored in full). Questions with ChatGPT, and more cities, come in the next edition. Part of the Who AI recommends, 2026 series, with electrical work in Dallas, HVAC in Dallas, HVAC in Houston, HVAC in Las Vegas, HVAC in Phoenix, plumbing in Dallas, plumbing in Houston, plumbing in Las Vegas, plumbing in Phoenix, real estate in Austin, roofing in Dallas and AI chatbots for websites.