New tech firm aims to protect real estate agents from opioid addicts

Drug addicts are posing as potential homebuyers and book house tours in order to get access to medicine cabinets.

Of the 150,000 active real estate agents and brokers, close to 38 percent of them say they fear for their personal safety.

A new tech firm will mine data to flag the backgrounds of buyers.

By Diana Olick | CNBC

Imagine if it was part of your job to make appointments with strangers and then go alone to meet them in empty houses.

Yet that is a daily routine for the more than 150,000 real estate agents and brokers. Close to 38 percent of them say they fear for their personal safety. Among female agents, the share is closer to half, according to a survey this year by the National Association of Realtors.

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