Every number used in this course, with its source and verification status. Time-sensitive claims re-checked 27 August 2026.
| Fact | Source | Status |
|---|
| About 30,000 real estate agencies in France (some counts to 32,000) | Industry panorama, 2025 | secondary |
| Orpi about 1,250 agencies; Century 21 France about 950; Laforêt about 720 | Same, 2025 | secondary |
| iad France over 14,000 conseillers in France (about 18,000 worldwide); SAFTI over 6,000 | immo2.pro ranking, 2026 | secondary |
| Mandataire networks did about 25 percent of existing-home transactions in 2023, up from 1.75 percent in 2010 | Industry panorama, 2025 | secondary |
| FNAIM: over 10,000 member establishments, roughly a quarter of all agencies | fnaim.fr, undated | primary |
| "Near 100,000" real-estate intermediation professionals in France | Industry blog, 2026 | unverified |
| National count of registered agents commerciaux immobiliers | - | not found |
| Fact | Source | Status |
|---|
| Call recording lawful only where necessary, limited to the relevant excerpt, prior information required | CNIL | primary |
| Retention around six months for quality and training recordings | Haas Avocats, practitioner summary | secondary |
| CNIL AI recommendations published 22 July 2025, including legitimate interest with safeguards | CNIL | primary |
| ARCEP governs numbering resources and operator status; the 2021 ordonnance removed the prior declaration requirement. Recording calls carried by a third party does not make you an operator. | Bird & Bird, ARCEP | primary + secondary |
| Loi Hoguet: carte professionnelle from the CCI, three-year validity, financial guarantee, indemnity insurance, 42 hours ALUR training per three years. Constrains the agent, not the software vendor. | Galian-SMABTP | secondary |
| Revente à perte: banned since 2 July 1963, Code de commerce art. L.442-2 et seq., fines to 75,000 EUR. Applies to resale of goods, not services you build. | DGCCRF | primary, fetch blocked |
| Company | Staged | Status |
|---|
| Leedflow | Raised 1.5M EUR in May 2026; captures calls, structures contact data and updates the CRM. Current site contradicts itself: one line says 49 EUR per month, while price card and FAQ say entry pricing starts at 89 EUR excluding tax. | vendor + trade press, re-checked |
| Hoqi | Founded in Paris in 2023 and acquired by La Boîte Immo in December 2025; current vendor site starts at 19.99 EUR excluding tax per month and reports 35,000-plus downloads | vendor + reported acquisition, re-checked |
| Nodalview | Current site reports 22,000-plus professionals in 30 countries; its press hub reports about 10M EUR total funding | primary vendor, re-checked |
| Rechat AI Memo | Launched April 2026; captures meetings and voice memos inside Rechat and is available to customers at no additional cost | company announcement reported, re-checked |
| Real Estate Ready | Early access, no published pricing, relationship-memory positioning | primary vendor, re-checked |
| Product | Free tier | Status |
|---|
| Wispr Flow | Desktop 2,000 words per week soft, 5,000 hard. iOS 1,000 soft, 1,500 hard | primary vendor docs, re-checked |
| Granola | Free tier limits meeting history; Business 14 USD and Enterprise 35 USD per user per month | primary vendor, re-checked |
| Fathom | Unlimited recording and transcription; five calls with advanced AI features per month on Free | primary vendor, re-checked |
| Otter.ai | 300 transcription minutes per month on Basic; Pro is 16.99 USD monthly or 8.49 USD per month billed annually | primary vendor, re-checked |
| Plaud | Starter includes 300 transcription minutes per month; a Plaud device purchase is required | primary vendor, re-checked |
| Plaud Embedded | Developer platform for device capture and transcription. Public pricing currently includes 50 devices and 300 transcription hours, then 15 USD per device per month and 0.28 USD per hour. Standard terms prohibit using the SDK for vertical conversation-intelligence products unless an Order Form overrides them. | primary vendor, contract gate |