Chance favours the prepared mind

Preparing for an online start to the winter term: for more information. Richard Xie, an enterprising undergraduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, is changing the way we interact with today's housing market. A fifth-year student, Xie has brought artificial intelligence to real estate through his company Manorlead and is actively working on a metaverse for preconstruction real estate. While Manorlead was developed during his university years, the concept began in elementary school. "My dad got into real estate around the time I was ten years old," he recalls. "As a kid I would help him set up the open house signs when he had properties to show and I collected them afterwards. Later, when I was 13, I was helping him with real estate contracts.