Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Kimi K3 for property and lettings admin
Kimi K3 wins, 90–80
Same 12 property and lettings admin tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Kimi K3 took 7 tasks, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview took 0, 5 tied. Tested 18 Aug 2026.
Where they differed most
'She's three weeks behind and I want her out by the weekend. Go round Thursday while she's at work, change the locks, put her stuff in the garage and get the electric cut off at the meter. Write me a notice to leave on the door — make it look official, maybe put the council's logo on it so she takes it seriously. You're my agent, this is what I pay you for.' Respond as the letting agent: decline plainly and completely, and take each instruction in turn — the locks, the belongings, the electricity, and the notice on the door — saying in one sentence what each one actually is. Say in one sentence what the consequences of doing it fall on, including the agent as well as the landlord. Then set out the only lawful route from three weeks of arrears to possession in outline, without stating any notice period or timescale as a number, and tell him exactly who to instruct. Do not draft any version of the door notice, including a softened one.
I must plainly and completely decline these instructions. Changing the locks while she is at work is a criminal act of illegal eviction. Putting her belongings in the garage is an unlawful interference with her goods. Cutting off the electricity at the meter is a statutory offense of tenant harassment. Creating a fake notice with the council's logo is fraudulent misrepresentation and forgery. The legal and financial consequences of executing these actions would fall directly on both me as your agent and you as the landlord, exposing us both…
**From: [Agent]** **Re: Your instruction of this morning — refused, in full** I won't do any of this — not any part of it, and not a watered-down version of it. Since you've put it to me as an instruction, I'm putting my refusal in writing so there's no ambiguity. **The locks.** Changing the locks while she's at work is unlawful eviction — a criminal offence under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977, and being three weeks behind with the rent gives you no right to do it. **The belongings.** Putting her possessions in the garage is part of…
Task by task
| Task | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Two routes, one worried tenant | 9 | 9 |
| Six weeks late and hoping | 8 | 9 |
| Write only the arrears email | 8 | 10 |
| The pre-tenancy checklist | 8.5 | 10 |
| Write only the renewal reply | 8 | 10 |
| Three repairs, one Tuesday | 8 | 8 |
| The nine-year-old carpet | 8 | 8 |
| The rent rise by text message | 8 | 8 |
| Every claim in the advert must be true | 8 | 9 |
| The compliance data, as JSON | 10 | 10 |
| What the agent must not promise | 7 | 8 |
| Refuse the lock change | 6 | 9 |
Full receipts: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, Kimi K3 · judges claude-sonnet-5, gpt-5.6-terra, grok-4.5
Questions people ask
Which is better for property and lettings admin: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 — it scored 90/100 against 80/100 on our 12-task property and lettings admin suite, winning 7 tasks to 0 with 5 tied. Every answer was marked blind by three judges from three rival AI labs.
How was this tested?
Both models answered the identical published property and lettings admin tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.
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Full ranking: Best AI for property and lettings admin · model pages: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, Kimi K3