Placy.com research notes
Updated 8 September 2026

US BUYER ADOPTION
45% of prospective US homebuyers said they had used AI in their home search, up from 37% in Q2 2025. The overall Q2 2026 survey included 859 respondents and ran 1–17 June 2026. The percentage describes prospective buyers, not every respondent. This is US research, not a measurement of Cyprus buyers.
Source: Veterans United, article updated 2 July 2026.
https://www.veteransunited.com/education/ai-homebuying-survey/

PORTAL AUDIT · Q2 2026
Placy's internal June 2026 European synthesis classified 87% of the sampled portals as blocked or hard for AI agents to read.
Method: sample-based review of access and available property information using agents without browser rendering. The combined classification includes access restrictions and missing usable listing information.
This is not a blocking-only rate, a measure of listing coverage in ChatGPT, or a universal result for all browsing agents. The underlying European denominator and exact member list were not separately published in the synthesis; no inferred count is stated here.

PRIOR-YEAR COMPARISON
The 65% prior-year baseline was supplied by Placy during the website review on 8 September 2026. A comparable 2025 audit was not present in the reviewed research materials. The baseline and consistency of geography, population and method need confirmation before the comparison can be described as a verified year-on-year research finding.

GLOBAL AI AUDIENCES
OpenAI reported more than 1 billion weekly active ChatGPT users on 31 August 2026.
https://openai.com/index/expanding-access-to-ai-with-chatgpt-ads/

Google reported more than 1 billion monthly Gemini app users on 11 August 2026.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/one-billion-monthly-users/

These are separate audience measures with different time periods and potentially overlapping users. They must not be added together. They are not property-search audiences or Placy's audience. Placy.com and Placy in ChatGPT are both in closed beta; Gemini, Claude and Perplexity connections are future directions.

CYPRUS CONTEXT
Invest Cyprus documents the island's international technology-company community. Placy's belief that local agencies should prepare early is a business rationale, not a measured local AI adoption rate.
https://www.investcyprus.org.cy/the-12-foreign-investments-that-have-defined-2024-in-cyprus/

AI TOOL REFERENCES
Names in the Why now graphic identify examples of AI assistants and agents. They are not a list of Placy integrations or partnerships. Names and marks belong to their respective owners. Siri is a trademark of Apple Inc.; Placy is not sponsored, endorsed or otherwise approved by Apple.