Halfway through 2026, Seaport Real Estate Group is having its best year in 16 years — and broker and owner Ben Bluemle says it’s not the market. It’s what’s happening behind the scenes.
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Walk into any social setting in Savannah right now and Ben Bluemle will tell you the conversation has shifted. Sales are strong. Records are breaking. Seaport Real Estate Group is on pace for the most successful year in its sixteen-year history. But that isn’t what people want to talk about.
“It’s really one subject, and it’s all AI,” Bluemle says.
For most of his career, Bluemle built Seaport on a simple philosophy — be a marketing company first and a real estate company second. That instinct, the willingness to move before the rest of the industry catches up, is now pointing him squarely at artificial intelligence.
Over the last fifteen months, Seaport has rebuilt significant portions of its back-end operations around AI. New systems. New workflows. New tools the firm’s nearly fifty agents now bring into every buyer and listing appointment.
“We’re incorporating more AI into our space than we ever have,” Bluemle says. “I didn’t fully understand it at first. I didn’t know how it was going to work for us. But right now we are spending every waking second incorporating new types of technology to make sure our agents are better prepared and more successful.”
The result, he believes, is the through-line behind Seaport’s 2026 numbers. Agents walking into appointments with more data, more knowledge, more preparation than the competition. Listings backed by smarter targeting. Buyers served with sharper intelligence about the homes and neighborhoods they’re considering.
And he doesn’t soften the message for business owners watching from the sidelines.
“If you’re not losing sleep right now because you’re not incorporating the level of AI that we’re doing, you should start,” he says. “AI is evolving so fast. If you want to be here in the next five, ten, twenty years, you’ve got to find ways to incorporate it.”
For Seaport, the work is already underway — and Bluemle hints there’s more coming that the firm isn’t ready to reveal yet.
“We are so far ahead of our competitors right now on all the things we’re incorporating,” he says. “AI is here. It’s not going anywhere.”
