Top Apps for Real Estate Agents in 2018

Your job as a real estate agent is complex, with lots to remember and lots to get done every single day. There are innumerable contact management, CRM tools and apps available. But you need to be sure they actually help and don't simply add more work for you.

Instead, take advantage of this list of contact management software and customer relationship management tools we've gathered from top agents to help you accomplish things more quickly and efficiently.

Website

Real Geeks - Real Geeks creates a custom IDX site for your business. It also gives you lots of CRM, marketing, property valuation, lead management and drip campaigns. Affordable even for new agents.

Real Estate Webmasters - REW is a web design company for those who want something sophisticated and unique. The REW website proclaims they work with the top 1 percent of Realtors. It also offers custom solutions.

WolfNet - WolfNet offers scalable and responsive real estate websites with lots of add-ons and plugins that make it a great option for the way you do business, as well as what your customers are looking for.

Open House

Spac.io - Go paperless and capture visitor information automatically at your open houses. Spac.io integrates with most CRM software for easy follow-up and no missed opportunities.

OpenHomePro - This service gives you open house visitor information collection, with digital sign-in sheets and automated lead follow-up and sales reports, right from your tablet.

Online Leads

FiveStreet - Real estate is the business of matching people with properties, and FiveStreet helps you do that with mobile-ready real estate CRM conversion tools and lead management.

Kunversion - Get multi-level contact management tools, from a free mobile client app to conversion software, that help move customers along your pipeline smoothly.

FSBO

Vulcan7 - Vulcan7 helps you list more, without working harder or spending more money. It serves up higher quality leads and allows you to connect in unique ways.

Buyer Alerts

RealScout - RealScout offers buyer data and lets you send them listings that will appeal to them automatically. It helps you build rapport and zero in on their wants and needs.

Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)

HouseCanary - Enables you to quickly ascertain the true value of a home with just a few clicks, using comprehensive available information.

MoxiPresent - Allows you to create a market value presentation on the fly, so that you can present a polished look at listing appointments.

Predictive Analytics

First.io - First.io uses machine learning tools to predict who is selling. They track more than 700 signals to accurately predict sellers, and then serve this data up in a simple app.

Revaluate - Revaluate mines data from a wide range of sources and produces property reports, as well as prospect search and spend data, to help you know who is ready to buy or sell.

HouseCanary - House Canary also helps with integrated and scalable data, valuations and analytics. They offer property info, forecasting and LTV data via API or spreadsheet.

Email Marketing

Mailchimp - Mailchimp is an inexpensive email marketing tool to use to keep in touch and build relationships. You can send up to 12,000 emails per month to 2,000 contacts absolutely free.

Emma - Emma offers email marketing that is easily integrated with some of the largest real estate contact management platforms. It helps you create targeted campaigns based on customer behavior.

Video Marketing

BombBomb - Most people love videos, and BombBomb helps make the process of creating video emails easier for you as an agent. Video helps you stand out and get attention in your crowded field.

PhoneKixie - Kixie helps you make more calls and be more productive on the phone. It gives you PowerList dialing integrated with CRM and ensures that your call shows up as a local number.

MojoDialer - Mojo Dialer combines CRM and lead management with a great calling tool. It keeps your sales pipeline first and foremost, and allows you to take actions needed to move forward.

Transaction Management

SkySlope - Sky Slope is a transaction management system that helps take your business off of paper and allows you to handle transactions electronically. It's a mobile paperless platform, so you can contract wherever you happen to be.

Dotloop - With the tagline, "People work not paperwork," Dotloop helps you complete the paperwork associated with any real estate transaction through an online proprietary network.

Folio - Folio lets you manage and organize transactions from your Gmail account by automatically categorizing files, contacts and emails. It's real estate contact management made easy.

Nekst - Nekst creates an automated transaction management system that works the way you want it to. From your task list to emails and communications, Nekst helps you simplify your business.

Forms

zipForm - zipForm lets you customize, send and have documents signed at any time of day or night. It also works with your real estate CRM to keep you on task.

DocuSign - DocuSign allows you to email paperwork to customers and other parties to a real estate transaction for their review and online signature and return. No need to run all over to get documents signed.

Web-based Disclosure Management

Disclosures.io - Disclosures.io makes it easy to manage and send mandatory disclosure forms to keep yourself in compliance.

Community

ActiveRain - Active Rain is a very active community of real estate professionals who share best practices, collaborate and write blog posts to help others.

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