Ed Neuhaus 
We just connected Claude to the live Austin MLS, so when you ask it about a home or a neighborhood, it reads the real listing data instead of guessing. Go to neuhausre.com/claude, one minute of setup, and Claude will answer with today’s actual homes on the market. Free forever for basic searches. As far as I can tell we are the first Austin brokerage to do this.
Ok so let me back up and explain why this matters, because if you have played with ChatGPT or Claude at all, you already know what the problem is.
The problem: AI sounds confident and gets it wrong
Here is the thing people do not realize about AI chatbots. They are trained on a giant pile of text from the internet, and that training was done months ago. Sometimes over a year ago. Then the model gets frozen and shipped. It does not know anything that happened after its training date.
So when you ask ChatGPT “what is the average price of a 4 bedroom home in Lakeway,” it does not actually know. It has seen a lot of real estate articles from 2023 and 2024 and it averages them together and gives you a number in a confident voice. Sounds right, feels right, might be completely wrong.
I have watched my own clients do this. They open ChatGPT, type in a question about Circle C or Mueller or Westlake, get back a very official sounding paragraph with specific numbers, and then bring those numbers to me. And I have to tell them, gently, that none of that is real. Those are guesses dressed up in nice sentences.
That is not the AI being dumb. That is the AI doing exactly what it was built to do, which is predict what words should come next. It was never connected to actual listing data. It was just trying to sound smart. There is a term in the AI world for this, they call it hallucinating, which is a polite way of saying making stuff up.
What we built
We built a direct connection between Claude (the AI chatbot from Anthropic) and the live Austin MLS. Meaning the actual listing database that real estate agents use. The one with current prices, current days on market, what sold last week, all of it.
When you connect Claude to our system, Claude stops guessing. It reads live data from the Austin Board of Realtors listing feed and answers your question with real homes that are actually for sale right now. Or real homes that actually sold in the last 90 days. No hallucinating, no stale 2023 numbers, no invented listings.
It is the same Claude you already use. Same chat window, same conversation style. The only difference is when you ask a question about Austin real estate, it quietly checks the live MLS and answers from real data instead of memory.
What this actually looks like
Here are some real questions you can type into Claude once you are connected. These are not made up examples. These actually work.
“Show me 4 bedroom homes in Lakeway under $900K.” Claude comes back with a list of homes that are actually on the market today. Not homes from a stale cache. Actual active listings with addresses, prices, square footage, and links.
“What did 3 bed homes in Circle C sell for in the last 90 days?” This is the kind of question that used to require calling an agent or squinting at Zillow. Now you ask Claude and get back the real closed sales with real close prices. This is the stuff that matters if you are pricing a home to sell, or trying to figure out if you are getting a fair deal as a buyer.
“Find homes near 1234 Main Street built after 2015 on at least a quarter acre.” You can ask this in plain English. You do not have to learn a search interface, you do not have to click through 12 filter menus. You just describe what you want and Claude finds it.
“What is available in Mueller that has been on the market more than 30 days?” Days on market is a negotiation signal. If a home has been sitting for 45 days, there is probably room to negotiate. Claude can surface those homes in about three seconds.
The point is you can ask questions the way you would ask a friend. You do not have to think like a database. Claude does the translation.
Why this matters
People are starting their home search in AI chats now. This is just what is happening. Five years ago everyone started on Zillow, ten years before that everyone started in the newspaper, and now a meaningful number of people open Claude or ChatGPT first, ask some questions, and go from there.
If you are a buyer and your AI is giving you made up prices, that is a real problem. You will set wrong expectations, you will waste time looking at the wrong neighborhoods, you might walk away from a fair deal because the chatbot told you the house was overpriced based on 2023 data.
And if you are a seller, the same thing works in reverse. Buyers coming to you with stale AI numbers will lowball you. Or more likely, they will just stop looking in your neighborhood because the chatbot convinced them they could not afford it, when in reality prices have come down and they can.
Trusted data matters. It is not that AI is bad. It is that AI without real data is just a very confident guesser. Add live MLS data and now it is actually useful.
How to try it
Go to neuhausre.com/claude. The page walks you through the setup in about a minute. You click one button, sign in with a Google account or an email, and you are done. Claude is now connected to the live Austin MLS.
Free forever for basic searches. You can ask about active listings, filter by price and beds and neighborhoods and square footage, and it costs you nothing. No credit card, no trial, no “upgrade in 30 days” trick.
Paying subscribers on the MLS Pro plan get the deeper stuff. Closed comparable sales (the actual prices homes sold for, which is the data sellers and buyers both need), year over year market stats, days on market trends, and a few other advanced filters. That is $9 a month if you need it. Most people probably do not, which is fine.
We built this at Neuhaus Realty Group because I think AI is going to be a big part of how people shop for homes in the next few years, and I would rather buyers and sellers have real data than invented data. That is also why we are giving the basic version away.
One more thing
Claude is a tool. A very good tool, and a much better one now that it can read live MLS data. But it is still a tool. It cannot walk through a house and tell you the foundation is shifting. It cannot read the seller’s motivation in a negotiation. It cannot tell you the neighbor three doors down runs a dog training business out of his garage.
I am still the human on the other end. When you are ready to actually look at homes, or price your home to sell, or figure out whether a deal makes sense for your specific situation, give me a call. Phone is (512) 827-8830. I pick up.
Until then, go play with it. neuhausre.com/claude. Takes a minute to set up. Ask it hard questions. See what it knows.
