The real estate industry is an entirely different beast than it was even 20 years ago. These days customers are finding their own properties and rentals more than ever, which means a realtor needs to be savvy and ambitious to meet customers where they’re at. Enter the world of real estate apps: an increasingly crowded industry that serves both professionals and interested homebuyers themselves.
Read up on some of the top apps for realtors below.
Google Maps might not be the highly-specialized app you’d expect a real estate agent to lean on, but just it is for the rest of us, the stalwart Google product is a must-have for realtors. Google Maps will not only help you arrive at your destination, it’ll help you better understand an area and its surrounding resources quicker than just about any other service.
Mortgage Calculator by Quicken Loans is just one of a handful of apps that perform the same function, but it’s no doubt one of the best. The app is easy-to-use and gives you the option of calculating your potential monthly payments in four different ways.
Sitegeist is tailor-made for real estate agents. If you or your clients have questions about a neighborhood or general location Sitegeist collects publicly available information like demographic data all in the palm of your hand.
Trulia is one of the most popular listing apps around for good reason: it’s a one-stop shop. Trulia gives you access to local listings and lets you peruse through photos, contact an agent, find nearby open houses, and plenty more.
Trulia Mortages is a productive outgrowth of the company’s main app. Similar to the Quicken Loans app listed above, Trulia’s specialized mortgage app helps simplify the process of calculating mortgage payments and can make financing a home a surprisingly approachable process.
Lovely is a robust apartment-hunting app that alerts users when a new rental property is listed. More recently the app has expanded into awesome new territory, allowing users to pay their rent electronically.
Premier Agent is a new app that allows realtors to respond to Zillow and Trulia property listing inquiries immediately as well as manage all your listings in one place.
Homesnap is like any other property listing search engine, except it allows you to search by “snapping” a photo of a listing.
Cam Scanner isn’t specifically targeted at real estate agents, but like any other career, realtors can benefit from the productivity booster. Especially in an industry so dependent on signings, Cam Scanner turns your cell-phone camera into a power scanning tool.
DocuSign is similar to Cam Scanner but takes things to the next level: you can actually sign documents—including PDF’s—digitally, cutting down on the cumbersome traditional process in order to provide one of the most robust electronic signature services around.
