# IT & Automation for Real Estate Agencies

Real estate agencies and brokerages live on enquiries: from listing portals such as Zillow, Realtor.com, Rightmove or realestate.com.au, from the agency website, signboards and social media. Each lands in a different inbox, and the agent who replies first usually gets the conversation. After that come viewings to arrange, buyers and sellers who may not be ready for months, listings to market, and contracts and identity documents to handle securely, often by agents working from their phones between appointments.

We help agencies capture every enquiry and follow it through. Front Desk tools pull portal, website and phone enquiries into one place and route each to the right agent; the Sales Desk handles follow-up, viewing booking and CRM upkeep; the Back Office automates listing admin, document collection and reporting; Growth covers listing marketing, your website, Google Business Profile and social posts; and the IT Desk secures email, devices and shared files, which matters in a business where fake payment instructions sent from compromised mailboxes are a known risk.

## Challenges

- **Slow replies to portal enquiries:** Enquiries arrive from listing portals, the website and social media throughout the day and evening, and by the time an agent is free to reply, the buyer or tenant has often contacted another agency.
- **Phone tag over viewings:** Arranging viewings and showings means calls and texts back and forth between buyers, sellers, tenants and agents, and late changes or no-shows waste time on the road.
- **Long sales cycles with no follow-up:** Many buyers and sellers are months away from moving. Without a CRM and a plan for keeping in touch, they are forgotten and later list or buy with whoever stayed in contact.
- **Listing marketing done by hand:** Each new listing needs a description, portal uploads, social posts, emails to matching buyers and a website update, which eats into time agents could spend with clients.
- **Sensitive documents and payment fraud risk:** Contracts, ID documents and bank details travel as email attachments, and a compromised mailbox can be used to send fake payment instructions to buyers, sellers or tenants.

## What we put in place

- **Front Desk: every enquiry captured and routed:** Lead capture that brings portal, website, chat and call enquiries into one CRM, removes duplicates and assigns each to the right agent by area, listing or turn, with an instant acknowledgement to the enquirer. An AI receptionist that identifies itself as an AI can answer calls agents miss and take details.
- **Sales Desk: viewing booking and follow-up:** Online viewing booking against agents' calendars, confirmations and reminders, and follow-up after each viewing, so interested buyers and tenants hear back promptly. Our team can also make follow-up calls to people who have enquired.
- **Sales Desk: CRM and long-term nurture:** A CRM such as GoHighLevel, HubSpot or your existing real estate CRM set up with stages for buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants, plus keep-in-touch emails and reminders for contacts who are not ready yet. Messages go only to people who enquired or opted in.
- **Growth: listing marketing:** Listing pages on your website, social posts for new listings and price changes, Google Business Profile updates and paid ads where they make sense, all prepared from one set of listing details.
- **Back Office: listing admin and documents:** Data entry for listings and CRM records, document request and reminder flows, secure sharing for contracts and ID documents instead of email attachments, and regular reports on enquiries, viewings and pipeline by source.
- **IT Desk: secure email and devices:** Multi-factor authentication, email filtering and SPF, DKIM and DMARC records that make spoofing your domain harder, managed phones and laptops for agents, and alerts for suspicious sign-ins and mailbox rules.

## Relevant services

- [IT Desk: managed IT services](https://techpitsolutions.systems/msp)
- [Lead Capture & Routing Automation](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/lead-capture-routing): We pull leads from every channel into one place, qualify and route them to the right person, and start follow-up straight away.
- [GoHighLevel CRM Setup & Automation](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/gohighlevel-crm): We set up GoHighLevel end to end, from pipelines and workflows to calendars, messaging, snapshots, and migration from your old CRM.
- [Online Booking & Appointment Reminders](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/booking-reminders): We set up online booking with automatic confirmations, reminders, and reschedule links, all synced to your calendar.
- [Sales Follow-up & CRM Updates](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/sales-follow-up-crm-updates): Consistent sales follow-up and accurate CRM records, so every lead has a clear next step and nothing goes cold.
- [Social Media Management](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/social-media-management): Planned, consistent social content and community replies, handled for you without adding work to your team.
- [Business Email & DNS Deliverability](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/email-dns-deliverability): We set up business email and fix the DNS behind it, so your messages are authenticated, trusted, and far less likely to land in spam.
- [Cybersecurity & Data Protection](https://techpitsolutions.systems/services/cybersecurity): Practical protection for small businesses: MFA, endpoint security, email filtering, backups, staff training and a response plan.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can you connect enquiries from Zillow, Rightmove or other portals to our CRM?

Usually, yes. Portals typically deliver enquiries by email or through a lead feed or integration, and we route those into your CRM, assign them to an agent and trigger the first reply. What is possible depends on the portal and your subscription, so we check the options for each lead source before building anything.

### Will an AI be talking to our clients?

Only where you choose. An AI receptionist or chat assistant always identifies itself as an AI, answers from information you approve, books viewings or takes details, and hands over to an agent when a question needs a person. You can limit it to missed calls and enquiries that arrive when the office is closed.

### Do you call or text cold lists for us?

No. Follow-up calls, texts and emails go to people who enquired, asked for a valuation or appraisal, or otherwise agreed to hear from you, with opt-out handling built in. Calling and messaging rules vary by country and state, so your advisor should confirm what applies to your agency.

### How do you reduce the risk of payment fraud by email?

We add multi-factor authentication on every mailbox, email filtering, domain authentication records and alerts for suspicious sign-ins and mail rules. The most important control is a process: tell clients you will never change bank details by email, and confirm any payment instruction by phone using a known number. No setup can rule out fraud entirely.

### Do you work with lettings and property management as well as sales?

Yes. For lettings and property management we apply the same approach to tenant enquiries, viewings, maintenance requests and landlord reporting, connecting the tools you already use where they offer integrations or an API.

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