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Custom Real Estate Software Development

Real estate software development services for brokerages, landlords, developers and PropTech founders — built around your workflow and data, or connecting the platforms you already run.

Custom Real Estate Software Architecture
Transaction managementReal estate CRM
Property managementIntegration layersPropTech products

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/// INTRODUCTION

Custom real estate software development means building software around how a specific real estate business works — its deals, properties, tenants, commissions and data — instead of bending the business to fit a packaged product.

Sodio provides real estate software development services for brokerages, landlords, developers and PropTech founders: new systems built from the ground up, and integration layers that connect the platforms a business already relies on.

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/// IS CUSTOM RIGHT FOR YOU?

Buy First. Build Where It Pays.

The best real estate software decision is often not to build at all. AppFolio, Yardi, dotloop, Follow Up Boss and the other established platforms cover standard work well, and custom real estate software that recreates one of them is money spent twice. It earns its place in four situations.

Your portfolio does not fit one platform
What it looks likeResidential and commercial, lettings and sales, or several countries — each tool handles part of the business and none handles all of it.
Your advantage is in the process
What it looks likeThe way you source, price, manage or report is why clients choose you, and a packaged tool would flatten it into everyone else's.
Your systems do not connect
What it looks likeCRM, property platform, accounting and spreadsheets each hold part of the picture, and people carry data between them by hand.
The software is the business
What it looks likeYou are building a PropTech product for other real estate businesses, and the platform is what you sell.

/// WHAT WE BUILD

Real Estate Software We Build

Transaction management

Transaction management

Real estate CRM

Real estate CRM

Property management software

Property management software

Lease management

Lease management

Commercial real estate software

Commercial real estate software

Listing platforms and websites

Listing platforms and websites

Tenant and resident portals

Tenant and resident portals

Real estate apps

Real estate apps

Integration layers

Integration layers

PropTech products

PropTech products

/// HOW A PROJECT RUNS

How a Real Estate Software Project Runs

Every stage is run by the same in-house real estate software developers, from the first discovery call to support after launch.

STAGE 1 - DISCOVERY

Map your records, systems, users and the workflow that costs you most

A clear picture of where your data lives and where the process breaks

STAGE 2 - SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE

Design the data model, integrations, migration and delivery phases

An architecture document and costed plan — free, and yours to keep

STAGE 3 - MVP

Build the riskiest workflow first, using your real records

Working software on your own data within 30 days

STAGE 4 - PRODUCTION BUILD

Complete the modules, integrations, permissions and audit trail

The core system live within 90 days

STAGE 5 - MIGRATION AND ROLLOUT

Move historical records, train teams, roll out office by office

Your data in the new system and your teams using it

STAGE 6 - SUPPORT AND ITERATION

Monitor, fix and extend as the business changes

Ongoing support and a roadmap for what comes next

/// BRINGING YOUR DATA IN

Bringing Your Existing Data In

MLS listings
Typical methodRESO Web API or feed, under your MLS agreement
Property platforms — Yardi, AppFolio, MRI
Typical methodAPIs where your plan includes them; otherwise scheduled exports
Accounting — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite
Typical methodAPI integration
CRM
Typical methodAPI integration or one-off migration
Spreadsheets
Typical methodOne-off import with validation
Leases and documents
Typical methodBulk upload with AI-assisted extraction
Legacy databases
Typical methodDirect extraction and mapping
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///ADDING AI

Adding AI to Real Estate Software

The most useful AI in real estate lives inside the software people already use every day, not in a separate tool someone has to remember to open.

Critical dates and terms pulled from leases straight into the system that tracks them, each value linked to its source clause.

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Price estimates shown with a confidence range at the point an agent or investor makes a decision, not in a separate report.

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Enquiries scored for likelihood to convert and matched to the right listings, so agents call the right people first.

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/// COMPARE

Off-the-Shelf, Hybrid or Custom Real Estate Software

Fits when
Off-the-shelfYour work matches how the product was designed
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerA platform fits most of the job but not all of it
Fully customYour process, portfolio or product is the differentiator
Upfront cost
Off-the-shelfLow
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerModerate
Fully customHighest
Ongoing cost
Off-the-shelfSubscription that grows with users
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerSubscription plus maintenance of the custom layer
Fully customHosting and maintenance, no per-user licence
Speed to launch
Off-the-shelfDays
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerWeeks
Fully customMVP in 30 days, core build in 90
Fit to your process
Off-the-shelfYou adapt to the software
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerClose, where it matters most
Fully customBuilt to your process
Integration
Off-the-shelfWhat the vendor supports
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerConnected through the custom layer
Fully customDesigned in from the start
Who owns it
Off-the-shelfThe vendor
Hybrid — platform plus custom layerSplit
Fully customYou

/// COST AND TIMELINE

What Drives the Cost and Timeline

A focused system covering one workflow typically reaches a working MVP in 30 days and a core production build in 90. Larger platforms are delivered in phases, each one live before the next begins.

30 daysWorking MVP for one workflow
90 daysCore production build

The cost moves with six things: how many types of user the software serves — agents, landlords, tenants, investors; how many systems it connects to; how much historical data has to be migrated and cleaned; the audit and compliance requirements involved; whether mobile apps are needed alongside the web platform; and, for PropTech products, the multi-tenancy and billing needed to serve many customers rather than one.

/// FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on scope far more than on the category. A focused system for one workflow — transaction management, lease tracking or a tenant portal — costs a fraction of a multi-module platform with integrations and mobile apps. The biggest drivers are the number of user types, the number of systems it connects to, and how much historical data needs migrating. The free solution architecture ends with a costed plan, so you see the figure before committing.

Ownership is set out in the contract before work starts. As standard, the software we build for you and the data inside it belong to you, and we do not build on a proprietary framework that ties you to us.

Yes. We start with a review of the code and architecture to understand what exists, what is worth keeping and what is holding the platform back, then recommend whether to extend, refactor or rebuild. If the existing platform is sound, we will say so.

Both. Internal systems for brokerages, landlords and developers, and PropTech products sold to other businesses. A PropTech build adds multi-tenancy, subscription billing and onboarding for many customers rather than one, which changes the architecture from the first day.

Yes. Many engagements are a layer that sits beside platforms a business keeps, or work alongside an in-house team. We agree who owns each system and each integration at the start, so nothing falls between teams.

Support, monitoring and further development continue as long as you need them, on a retainer or as further phases. Real estate software tends to grow once the first workflow is working, so the architecture is designed to be extended rather than rebuilt.

/// GET STARTED

Start With the Workflow That Costs You Most

Tell us which process takes the most time or causes the most errors, and which systems it runs through. Our real estate software developers will prepare a free solution architecture showing what to build, what to keep and what it will cost.

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