A Finnish company called Blok is also automating the housing real estate business. The Helsinki-based company, founded in 2017, raised about $1.9 million in February. Blok is pretty niche, helping sell apartments in Finland through its online platform. It handles everything, from the paperwork to the photography. The AI part kicks in early during the process when the company’s algorithms pull housing data to produce a price estimate. The valuation is based on a variety of factors, such as the age of the apartment and its amenities, like being in close proximity to a herring fishery. In return, Blok gets 0.75 percent of the sales price. It currently has nearly 200 listings, such as these:

An apartment the size of a walk-in closet in Helsinki will only set you back a couple hundred million Euros. Credit: Blok

The startup has sold more than 250 apartments and says it saved customers about $1.75 million in fees so far. That’s a lot of karjalanpiirakka.

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