On 12 October 2026 we asked ChatGPT two questions a home seller in Birmingham might ask, one about Birmingham as a whole and one about Kings Heath. Below are the estate agents from each numbered shortlist, in ChatGPT's order, copied from the answers.
This is a snapshot of what ChatGPT said on one day, not a ranking of which agent sells homes best. The method and its limits are at the end of the page.
Birmingham
Question, asked once on 12 October 2026 (answer recorded at 10:17 UK time):
Which estate agent should I use to sell my house in Birmingham?
ChatGPT named four estate agents in its shortlist:
- Robert Oulsnam & Co
- Paul Carr Estate Agents
- Heritage Estate Agency
- Davidson Estates
How the answer opened:
“If you're selling a house in Birmingham, UK, I'd start by getting valuations from three estate agents rather than automatically going with the biggest national chain.”
Kings Heath, Birmingham
Question, asked once on 12 October 2026 (answer recorded at 09:17 UK time):
Which estate agent should I use to sell my house in Kings Heath, Birmingham?
ChatGPT named five estate agents in its shortlist:
- Oulsnam Estate & Letting Agents Kings Heath
- Heritage Estate Agency
- Rice Chamberlains LLP (sales)
- Dixons Estate Agents Kings Heath
- Connells Estate Agents Kings Heath
How the answer opened:
“My first choice for selling a house in Kings Heath, Birmingham, would be Robert Oulsnam & Company. However, I'd invite three agents to value the property before signing a contract.”
What the two answers had in common
Both answers gave a shortlist, and each ended by asking the seller for more detail (the neighbourhood, the postcode or the type of home) before narrowing it down. GetAgent was shown as a source in both. Two agencies appear in both lists. Heritage Estate Agency is in both, and so is Oulsnam: as Robert Oulsnam & Co in the city-wide answer and as Oulsnam Estate & Letting Agents Kings Heath in the Kings Heath one.
If you run an agency, the question worth checking is the one for your own neighbourhood and type of home, not just the city-wide one.
Method and limits
- Two questions, each asked once on 12 October 2026 in ChatGPT, logged in, in a temporary chat, with the questions typed in English and the browser locale set to en-GB (the ChatGPT interface itself was not in English). Both questions were sent from Kyiv, Ukraine. Someone searching from the UK may get a different answer.
- ChatGPT can give a different list when the same question is asked again. One answer is a sample, not a measurement; see why the same question can name different firms.
- The names are copied from the numbered shortlist in each answer. We did not add, remove or reorder any names, and we have not checked the claims ChatGPT made about each agent.
- We name only the agents ChatGPT named. This page does not say which agents were left out.
The same snapshot for other cities: Manchester and Leeds.