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In order to become great agents, good agents need great real estate applications. In order to become top producers, great agents need the best real estate apps to aid their day to day activities.
To help you find the best real estate apps, I have put together this guide of the 16 best real estate apps and tools on the online space today (both free and paid versions).
If you find a game changer on the list, be sure to let us know in the comments.
Here are 16 top trending real estate apps that we believe will support your core business and marketing activities.
WhatsApp Business is the first on our list of real estate apps. It is a free Android based application which was built with a small business owner in mind. With the app, real estate agents can interact with customers easily by using tools to automate, sort, and quickly respond to messages.
WhatsApp Business enables you to have a business presence on WhatsApp, communicate more efficiently with your customers, and help you grow your business.
If you have separate business and personal phone numbers, you can have both WhatsApp Business and WhatsApp Messenger installed on the same phone, and register them with different numbers.
Second on this list of real estate apps is Twitter. For those, who aren’t familiar with the platform, it is a social media and online news platform where people communicate in short messages – up to 240 characters long – called tweets.
Founded in 2006, Twitter is now one of the top websites in the world. It’s currently ranked No. 8 domestically and No. 13 internationally according to internet analytics company Alexa.
If used correctly, Twitter can be a great marketing tool for your business. But most often than not, people who have attempted to use the platform before say that they weren’t able to continue using it because of the unfamiliar terrain and savageness it has come to be known for.
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With over 500 million Tweets being sent each day, hundreds of millions of people exploring links, articles, retweets, and trends, Twitter is a sure winner for a ready heart.
This is an android and iOS based app that helps you market your properties well with catchy videos and GIFS. The app turns text into stunning animations to impress your followers and potential clients. This made it into our list of real estate apps because of the rising importance of video related contents.
One of the biggest complaints of Facebook users who manage several Facebook pages is that it is not easy to update your Facebook Page from a smartphone or tablet. The Facebook app is clunky and glitchy, which makes it hard to keep page(s) up-to-date when not on a desktop computer. Facebook has released a solution with its Facebook Pages Manager app, which has social media managers rejoicing.
With the help of the Facebook page manager, you can now efficiently run your business pages without hitch. Facebook is a great market for every real estate agent, and marketing on it isn’t just as easy as it used to be anymore.
So if you have an opportunity to use an app that makes your job easier, why not take it?
This is another huge one you should consider having in your bag of real estate apps.
It is a great photo editing app for brilliantly editing the pictures of the properties, you have been entrusted to sell.
Snapseed strikes a good balance between amateur and professional photo editing. There’s your typical level adjustments for exposure, contrast, highlights, etc but there’s also a bunch of filters for quick adjustments.
Snapseed’s ease of use and feature set make it one of the best photo editing apps for mobile. The app is designed for touch and makes adjustments easily. If you want more control over editing your photos on the go, Snapseed should be on your short list of apps to try.
This is an android based application that helps you find the right optimized and trending hashtags to use on your Instagram page.
Tagomatic helps you increase the number of Instagram followers and likes on your pictures.
Enter a single word and Tagomatic will search among the most trending hashtag and choose the better ones related to yours.
This allows you to get the highest results on Instagram search trends and market yourself better.
As a real estate agent, you would always have to schedule meetings on the go; a lot of which you might in the end not be able to attend.
Zoom helps you fill in that gap effortlessly. Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and meetings.
You can stay connected wherever you go – start or join a 100-person meeting with crystal-clear, face-to-face video, high quality screen sharing, and instant messaging.
Also on this list of real estate apps is the NREH app. Nigeria Real Estate Hub is the leading real estate property news platform in Nigeria.
It is web-based platform for trending news, articles and insights into the happenings in and around the real estate sector.
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It provides users with the best compilation of hot property news and major changes around the sector. So as a real estate agent, who wishes to stay up-to-date and confident when speaking to prospective clients, this is a platform you can get acquainted with.
With the wealth of information and articles on the site, be rest assured that you will be in the right frame of mind to efficiently advice and impress your clients.
It is available for download on Android, and absolutely free!
If you suffer from inbox overload, and want a solution than can help keep track of it all, Cloze is worth considering. Shortly after setup, the Cloze app will be integrated with your email accounts including your calendar and social accounts.
The Cloze dashboard includes a daily agenda that aggregates your inbox, contacts, calendar and to-do list into an easy to manage list. The app even surfaces emails with mentions of follow-up activities on a specific day. Looking for related files and documents? Cloze also presents a clickable history of communication from each contact with related attachments.
OneNote allows you to take notes, clip images from the web, and scribble notes by hand. It’s free, and best of all, if you already have a Microsoft Office subscription, your notes will sync across all your devices and Microsoft apps. Ready to give it a try?
By now we’re sure you’ve realized that Facebook Ads are a great opportunity for real estate agents. Which is exactly why the Facebook Ad Manager made this list. Agents will appreciate the mobile command and control center for all of their Facebook ad campaigns. Easily create ads, track the results, start and stop campaigns, even edit the ad budget and schedule all from a phone. Much like the Facebook mobile app, you’ll also see ad recommendations based on your top posts.
For quick and straightforward video creation on a mobile device, Adobe Premiere Clip is a must have. Start a new video by accessing footage on your phone, tablet, lightroom, creative cloud, dropbox or take video live. Once you’ve added your videos to a new project, choose whether to have Adobe Premiere Clip automatically generate a video for you, including cuts and sound track. Or use the freeform tool to manually trim and sequence your video. It’s even possible to start using the automatic method and then switch to manual method for final clean up and publishing.
Okay, we know Facebook Live isn’t a real estate app on its own, but if you saw “Facebook,” would you have even stopped to read more? I guess not.
The fact is Facebook Live will complement just about any real estate agent’s existing digital media strategy. For most agents, it’s where their sphere of influence is already visiting.
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Going live is as simple as opening the Facebook app and pressing the Live button in the status update area. Use the privacy settings to choose your audience. Next give the video a description. This is what others will see so your content should motivate them to watch. Now you’re ready to go live! Your audience will see a notification that you’re live and, as they join and engage, you will see their notifications. Tapping Finish ends the session by saving the video so you can easily post, share, etc.
SwiftKey lets you text faster and more efficiently. Say goodbye to typos and autocorrect nightmares. It’s as simple as Swyping your next text message or note. Start with the first letter of the word, slide your finger from each letter to the next and SwiftKey recognizes what you are trying to type. Word prediction, and even emoji suggestions based on the words you type, is fully supported. Pre-program gestures that correspond with preset text messages customized by you.
Well, kinda. This app lets you take panoramic shots of any room in the house, then save or share the images. You can send a flat image or an interactive 360 degree view without leaving the app. It’s like your camera on steroids!
Business Card Scanner
You’re meeting, you’re greeting, and you’re collecting business cards and contact information. But are you really keeping track of all those tiny papers?
We’ve got a better idea – scan them! These apps turn your phone into a multipage scanner that allows you to scan, organize and email anything you don’t want to carry around.
iOS: TurboScan ($1.99)
Android: CamScanner ($4.99 or try the free ad-supported version)