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Real Estate CRM

Custom real estate CRM for brokers, commercial teams and property managers — contacts tied to the properties they own, rent or want, and relationships that outlast any single deal.

Real Estate CRM Architecture
Contacts linked to propertiesLead routing
Pipelines by deal typeLease-expiry prospectingReporting

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/// INTRODUCTION

A real estate CRM keeps track of the people behind every deal — buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, owners and investors — and the properties they are connected to.

Sodio builds custom real estate CRM systems for brokerages, commercial real estate teams and property managers: lead routing across agents, pipelines for every deal type, follow-up over long cycles, and a commercial real estate CRM built around buildings and relationships rather than leads alone.

Real estate broker working at desk

/// IS CUSTOM RIGHT FOR YOU?

Most Real Estate CRMs Are Built for Agents Chasing Leads

If you are looking for a CRM for real estate agents working on their own or in a small team, buy one. Follow Up Boss, kvCORE and similar products are built for exactly that: capturing leads, responding fast and following up until they convert. They work less well when the business is not one agent and a lead list. Custom real estate CRM earns its place in four situations.

You are a brokerage, not an agent
What it looks likeLeads need routing across dozens of agents, performance has to be seen by team and office, and the brokerage needs to own the contacts when an agent leaves.
Your work is commercial
What it looks likeRelationships run for years, the same people appear as owner, tenant and investor, and the best opportunities come from lease expiries and ownership records rather than enquiries.
You manage property
What it looks likeThe relationships that matter are with owners and tenants across the life of a management contract, not buyers in a pipeline.
Your CRM has to fit your other systems
What it looks likeTransaction management, property platforms and accounting all need the same contacts, and nothing talks to anything else.

/// WHAT THE SYSTEM COVERS

What a Real Estate CRM Covers

Contacts linked to properties

Contacts linked to properties

Lead capture and routing

Lead capture and routing

Pipelines by deal type

Pipelines by deal type

Follow-up over months and years

Follow-up over months and years

Ownership and property records

Ownership and property records

Lease-expiry prospecting

Lease-expiry prospecting

Team and brokerage management

Team and brokerage management

Owner and tenant relationships

Owner and tenant relationships

Communication history

Communication history

Reporting

Reporting

/// THE RELATIONSHIP LIFECYCLE

From First Enquiry to Repeat Business

In real estate the sale is rarely the end of the relationship. The client who bought a home, leased an office or handed over a building is the likeliest source of the next deal.

STAGE 1 - CAPTURE

An enquiry arrives from a portal, the website, a sign or an event

Lead created, source recorded, routed to the right agent

STAGE 2 - QUALIFY

First contact and needs understood

Contact linked to properties and criteria; stage set

STAGE 3 - NURTURE

Months or years before they act

Scheduled follow-ups, relevant listings and market updates

STAGE 4 - TRANSACT

Viewings, offers and negotiation

Deal created in the pipeline; every activity logged

STAGE 5 - CLOSE

The deal completes

Handed to transaction management; commission recorded

STAGE 6 - STAY IN TOUCH

Referrals and repeat business

Anniversary reminders, portfolio updates and signals of a next move

/// INTEGRATIONS

Systems It Connects To

Lead sources
SystemsZillow, Realtor.com, Rightmove, Zoopla, your website and open-house sign-in
Listings
SystemsMLS feeds through the RESO Web API
Email and calendar
SystemsGmail, Google Calendar, Outlook and Microsoft 365
Calling and texting
SystemsTelephony and SMS platforms, with consent tracking
Deals and property
SystemsTransaction management platforms, Yardi, AppFolio and MRI
Marketing
SystemsMailchimp, HubSpot and email platforms
Property data
SystemsLicensed ownership and property data providers, within the terms of the licence
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///AI IN REAL ESTATE APPS

AI That Belongs in Your Pocket

On a phone, AI is useful when it saves typing, searching or waiting — and gets out of the way the rest of the time.

Enquiries ranked by how likely they are to convert, so the fastest response goes to the most serious buyers and tenants.

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Contacts surfaced when signals suggest a move — a lease nearing expiry, a portfolio change, a return visit to listings.

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Notes written from calls and meetings and filed against the contact, so the next conversation starts where the last one ended.

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/// COMPARE

Agent CRM, General CRM or Custom Real Estate CRM

Built around
Real estate agent CRMLeads and fast follow-up
General CRM, customisedAccounts and opportunities
Custom real estate CRMProperties and relationships
Best for
Real estate agent CRMIndividual agents and small teams
General CRM, customisedFirms with in-house CRM administrators
Custom real estate CRMBrokerages, commercial teams and property managers
Property records
Real estate agent CRMListings only
General CRM, customisedCustom objects to build and maintain
Custom real estate CRMBuilt in from the start
Who owns the data
Real estate agent CRMOften the agent's account
General CRM, customisedThe firm
Custom real estate CRMThe firm, with rules for agents
Fit with deal and property systems
Real estate agent CRMLimited
General CRM, customisedPossible, with configuration
Custom real estate CRMDesigned in
Cost model
Real estate agent CRMPer-agent subscription
General CRM, customisedPer-seat licence plus configuration
Custom real estate CRMOne-off build, then you own it

/// COST AND TIMELINE

What Drives the Cost and Timeline

A working CRM on your real contacts typically arrives within 30 days, with a core production build in 90.

30 daysWorking CRM on your real contacts
90 daysCore production build

The cost moves with six things: how many types of user it serves — agents, brokers, property managers; how many lead sources and systems it connects to; how large and messy the existing contact database is; whether licensed property or ownership data is involved; how calls and texts are logged; and whether agents need a mobile app alongside the web platform.

/// FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

If you are an individual agent or a small team, you should — they are good products built for exactly that. A custom real estate CRM makes sense for brokerages that need to own their data and route leads across many agents, for commercial teams whose work is relationships and buildings rather than leads, for property managers, and for businesses whose CRM has to work closely with their other systems.

Whoever your agreements say owns them, and the system should enforce it. A custom CRM makes the rules explicit: which contacts are shared across the brokerage, which are private to an agent, and what happens to them when an agent leaves. In most off-the-shelf agent CRMs that question is answered by whoever set up the account.

Yes. Contacts, notes, activity and deal history are migrated and deduplicated — real estate databases usually hold the same person several times over. We run a test migration first so you can check the result before anything is switched over.

It is built around relationships and buildings rather than leads. Commercial deals take months or years, the same people appear as owner, tenant and investor across different properties, and the best opportunities come from knowing when a lease expires or a building might trade. A lead-based agent CRM has nowhere to put most of that.

Email and calendar activity can be synced automatically. Calls and texts are logged through a telephony integration. Outreach by phone and text carries consent rules — the TCPA in the US and PECR in the UK — and those are built into how the system sends messages rather than left to each agent.

A working CRM on your real contacts typically arrives within 30 days, with a core production build in 90. Migrating and cleaning a large contact database runs alongside, and teams are usually moved across office by office.

/// GET STARTED

Start With Where Your Contacts Live Today

Tell us where your contacts are kept now, how leads reach your agents, and what happens to a relationship when someone leaves. We will prepare a free solution architecture for a CRM built around how your business actually works.

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