Do you run a real estate business and think about improving your processes with technologies? This is a wise choice since the possibilities of PropTech advance from month to month. Dozens of companies in the industry have already implemented custom CRM (customer relationship management) tools and HOA (homeowner association) software solutions and benefit from implementing IoT, AR, VR, 3D, and artificial intelligence in real estate software.
You have to kickstart the digital transformation of your real estate enterprise. You understand what each day of delay in such a rapidly changing industry may cost you.
But there is a blocker: starting the custom software development for the real estate industry requires much preparation, as you have to hire a team of PropTech software developers first and then manage them to get the desired result. Unfortunately, building your app internally is costly, time-consuming, and quite risky if you lack the required in-house expertise.
Suppose you have the time and resources to experiment - great! This meaningful experience will bring you many benefits in the long run.
But what if you are not ready to invest in recruiting, onboarding, training, and management? What if you need the results ASAP?
There are companies that can do the job for you. Thousands of companies offer software product development worldwide, and you can choose any that meets your needs. And since you are probably in a hurry and want to start using your app soon, we’ve done the pre-screening for you. In this article, you find the top ten custom real estate software development companies you can trust your product to.
Ten pre-vetted companies providing custom software development for the real estate industry
Usually, it may take you a few days (or even weeks) to screen the companies, analyze, and evaluate them before you are ready for the first contact.
We took this time to study the market, and now we are ready to present you with the shortlist of the top ten companies for custom real estate platform development.
Why you can trust our list?
We have created a standards checklist to ensure that only the most relevant companies make it through. Here’s what we paid attention to:
- Relevant services, industries
The company website contains comprehensive information on the services it provides, industries it works with, technologies it uses, etc. You will benefit from the cooperation if an agency has custom real estate software development among its focuses.
- Relevant case studies
The company’s portfolio includes technology solutions built specifically for the real estate industry. This will help you compare the level of applications the vendor has already built with your expectations.
- Testimonials
The company has an active Clutch profile with at least ten reviews and an average score of 4.5 or higher. We don’t aim for a five as we believe there’s space for improvement in every cooperation, and honest reviews often get less than five with still complimentary comments. During this research, we carefully read the reviews of all companies and made sure no red-flagged teams appeared in the list.
- End-to-end product development
The company is ready to turn a raw idea into a working app and take over all app creation stages, including app design, programming, quality assurance, server configuration and maintenance, and further app support. This means you don’t need to look for other real estate saas software development companies.
- Experience with APIs
The company knows how to work with APIs to connect your future application with existing software, such as MLS (Multiple Listing Service), IDX (Internet Data Exchange), geolocation and mapping services, CRM tools, or any other type of software you may use in your day to day processes.
- Expertise with relevant technologies
A company should be good at web and mobile app development, but their specific expertise plays a significant role as well. For some types of cloud-based real estate software solutions, your team would need expertise in AI/ML, blockchain, VR/AR, metaverse, IoT, etc. We’ve picked the firms that can provide you with such expertise.
We haven’t filtered the real estate software providers based on their location, hourly rate, staff count, or project scale, as this will all depend on your specific case. Instead, we have added this information to each company’s profile, so you can straight away decide whether it is a match or not.
Before we proceed to the actual list, a short disclaimer:
All these companies work remotely, so you can cooperate with any of them no matter how far away you and the vendor are located. In this remote era, you have access to the global talent market, and that’s fabulous.
Okay, enough warm-up. Let’s head to the top ten real estate software companies!
1. Saritasa
Hourly rate: $100-150
140+ employees
Headquarters: Newport Beach, CA
Saritasa is a software development company with offices in 6 cities in the USA.
Along with mobile and web app programming, Saritasa offers more services that may be helpful in building a high-end real estate application, VR/AR solutions, and IoT development among them:
- Virtual and augmented reality may become the killer features of your custom software. With professionally built 3D models, you can provide your buyers realistic tours through properties without physically visiting them. Imagine organizing hundreds of tours per day across the world. Wouldn’t it boost your productivity and open new horizons for your business?
- IoT-based apps are often used in property management. Connected sensors help you monitor various parameters in a property, such as a temperature, humidity, air quality, and water leaks. Visitor management systems help ensure that unauthorized visitors won't get access to specific spaces. Besides, IoT systems can predict technical issues and schedule maintenance.
Saritasa has a vast portfolio of completed projects, and they can prove their experience in real estate app development as well. For example, one of their recent projects was for a property management company. They created an application to overview the property condition, schedule maintenance tasks, manage work orders, communicate with tenants, solve their complaints, etc.
If you are bound by U.S. law and must partner with an American company, Saritasa may be your choice.
2. Clockwise Software
Hourly rate: $50-99
70+ employees worldwide
Headquarters: Dnipro, Ukraine
Clockwise Software, a real estate software development company, began its journey in custom software solutions nine years ago. Since then, they have gained experience in logistics and MarTech. However, their focus has shifted towards specializing in real estate projects from different parts of the world over the last few years.
Along with experience in web and cross-platform app development, Clockwise Software brings specific expertise in data visualization, AI enhancement, and SaaS. This means that the product you build with this company will have a few unique features that increase its potential:
- Data visualization will help analyze large amounts of data and visualize them in an easy-to-consume way, such as charts, diagrams, etc. With this approach, you can easily find patterns and make predictions or data-driven decisions in your real estate business.
- AI-based functionality can take over the manual work that is usually assigned to less experienced managers. For example, AI assistants can communicate with potential clients, prepare customized offers for them, or generate reports, saving you money and increasing work productivity.
- In the end, you can start selling your new real estate app as a service, obtaining a brand new income stream. And Clockwise Software is a pro at turning internal business applications into SaaS.
Clockwise Software also runs an expert blog, which is a great source of information for businesses that aim for digital transformation. For example, you can view their article on property management tech solutions, which gives very clear steps on how to create such an application. Also, check out the Clutch profile of the real estate SaaS software development company for insights into the cooperation conditions that Clockwise offers.
The company works mainly with small and medium-sized real estate businesses and is ready to start the project from $25,000. The good news is that Clockwise Software also has product discovery among their core services, which perfectly fits businesses that don’t know precisely what end product they strive for. During discovery, a skilled team will analyze your business case and the industry state, make digitalization suggestions, and create a detailed software requirements specification for your future product.
3. Jelvix
Hourly rate: $50-99
150+ professionals in 10+ countries
Headquarters: Tallinn, Estonia
Jelvix was founded 13 years ago, and since then, they have found their niche – building tech solutions for businesses. Real estate is among the industries they have the most experience with, so your cooperation will be seamless and rewarding.
When cooperating with Jelvix, you can be sure of the quality of the services they deliver, as the company is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified. This means that they rigorously adhere to the standards in software development. In addition, the team follows ISO 27001 and ISO 27701, which makes them a trustworthy partner in terms of software security and data protection.
Over the last years, Jelvix has worked closely with investors, owners, and real estate operators, as well as landowners and developers. Their experience in the digital transformation of existing businesses resulted in great outcomes for their partners. For example, one of their recent projects was a client management system and accounting software for one of the most prominent players in the real estate market in the USA.
Samsung, Auchan, Canon, Kia, and IKEA are customers of this firm. Jelvix is a trustworthy real estate software services provider, but you have to be aware of their business model. After analyzing their Clutch profile, we conclude they usually work with projects worth between $200,000 and $1,000,000 and beyond. If you are an established business and ready to allocate that budget upfront, working with Jelvix would be a great experience for you and your team.
4. Iversoft
Hourly rate: $150 - $199
40+ remote employees in Canada
Headquarters: Ottawa, Canada
The story of Iversoft started in a dining room in Toronto in 2009, and soon after this, the firm launched its first mobile game for iOS.
Being a mobile-first company, Iversoft has relevant experience in building native mobile apps. If you predict that your team will use your future real estate management software mainly on the go, then focusing on mobile platforms is a wise choice. In this case, Iversoft will provide you with consulting, design, development, and application maintenance. However, they also have web programming specialists, so that they can create an admin panel or dashboards specifically for browsers and larger screens.
Iversoft is a fully Canadian outsourcing company that brings many benefits to real estate companies in Canada. First of all, when partnering with Iversoft, you get to cooperate with people with the same cultural and historical background, speaking the same language as you do, and you never have significant timezone gaps. Also, outsourcing your app development to a Canadian vendor makes you eligible for additional tax credits.
5. RisingMax
Hourly rate: $50-99
250+ employees with development centers in India
Headquarters: New York, NY
If you like the idea of virtual reality tours, then you can go further and implement metaverse in your real estate business. And RisingMax is the company that can help you turn this ambitious idea into reality. They build VR applications where you can present your potential buyers not just a single house but the whole district, let them try some services in the area, and even interact with future neighbors. Metaverse apps allow you to host virtual events for your partners. This may become a stunning presentation of your development projects for conferences and forums.
RisingMax also has experience building apps that help buy and sell virtual property in metaverses, such as land and buildings, which targets the audience of NFT traders and collectors.
Along with Metaverse, RisingMax also provides native app development for iOS and Android. They prefer to work with medium and large-sized companies and startups. You may also benefit from the 24/7 technical support and maintenance that RisingMax provides to its clients.
6. Newwave Solutions
Hourly rate: under $25
300+ employees
Headquarters: Hanoi City, Vietnam
When talking about the digitalization of the real estate industry, the security of transactions remains among the central challenges. This can be solved with blockchain, and Newwave Solutions knows exactly how to implement this technology into your service.
There are three main tasks that blockchain successfully solves:
- Smart contracts that enable instant and secure transactions without intermediaries
- P2P payments that are transparent and cheap without the risk of fraud
- Tokenization of real estate assets enabling fractional ownership of real estate
Newwave has experience with blockchain applications of various complexity.
However, you can also build a traditional real estate app with Newwave Solutions. They are good in mobile app programming for iOS and Android. In their portfolio, you find the best real estate software for remote home buyers, rental applications, and property management systems.
7. OAK'S LAB
Hourly rate: $50-99
Employees: 70+
Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic
OAK’S LAB is a product development studio with a focus on startups. They call themselves a hub for groundbreaking global innovation. If you are about to launch a revolutionary SaaS product and solve the challenges for businesses in the real estate industry, then this may be your choice.
They are ready to jump in on any stage of the product lifecycle, but you may benefit most if you begin your startup journey with OAK’S LAB. The team provides UI/UX design, software engineering, and quality assurance. Also, the product managers who have experience with multiple startups, both successful and not, will guide you from your idea to app launch and beyond.
On their website, you can read stories of startups that partnered with OAK’S LAB. The founders often note that the partnership enabled them to focus on their business development tasks while entrusting all technical questions to the real estate software development company team. Also, a handful of startups attracted funds from investors and kept working on their products.
Launching a real estate startup is hard work since the industry is very competitive. And you definitely want to have reliable partners who have walked this path successfully before. Consider partnering with OAK’S LAB if your goal is to launch a groundbreaking real estate product and catch investors' attention.
8. Redberry
Hourly rate: $25-49
Employees: 200+
Headquarters: Tbilisi, Georgia
When searching for a contractor that will not just help you build your new real estate application but also launch and promote it, consider partnering with Redberry, the largest digital agency in Georgia.
The companies we described earlier deliver flawless real estate software development services; some of them also have strong UI/UX designers and business analysts. Redberry has it all. But in addition, they also have digital strategists, copywriters, and growth hackers on board.
Along with app development, you can partner with Redberry for
- Growth strategy
- SEO and content marketing
- Paid advertising
- Lead generation and cold outreach
- Social media marketing
- Content production
- Marketing analytics and reporting
In a nutshell, the Redberry team ensures the real estate application you build together reaches the target audience: real estate agencies, property managers, home sellers and buyers, brokers, investors, etc.
Redberry also provides staff augmentation, which means you can hire several professionals to complete your internal team or the vendor you already work with.
9. LowCode Agency
Hourly rate: $50-99
Employees: 10+
Headquarters: Miami, FL
If you are low on budget or your deadlines are too tight, you can consider cooperation with LowCode Agency. This company uses low-code and no-code solutions to build custom applications for businesses.
The pros of low-code apps are the short development time and low price, as the company uses ready building blocks to construct a solution that will work for your specific case.
The cons, as you may anticipate, are a low level of flexibility and poor scalability since the number of building blocks is limited, just as their compatibility. Also, the performance of your app may suffer.
LowCode company claims they can build a simple application in just four weeks, and the price for such an entry-level technology solution may start at $7,000.
In general, you can use low code to build prototypes or some temporary solutions, which may be later replaced by custom applications. In general, this approach allows you to dramatically cut the path to digital transformation and kickstart the improvements even with a tiny budget.
10. EB Pearls
Hourly rate: $25-49
Employees: 320+
Headquarters: Sidney and Katmandu
EB Pearls is a large software company with two offices: the Sidney office houses UI/UX designers, sales and marketing teams, project and account managers; the office in the Nepal capital Catmandu is full of solution architects, engineering managers, software developers, scrum masters, and quality engineers.
Being a Sidney-based company, EB Perls focused on partnerships with local businesses first. Property companies across Australia have already boosted their internal processes with custom real estate software development solutions built by the EB Pearls team. However, they also work remotely and complete PropTech projects for businesses on other continents as well.
After analyzing the portfolio of the company, we have found an abundance of completed real estate projects including the following:
- A marketplace for first-time home buyers with the ability to secure their home even if deposit sum is above their current budget
- A project management mobile application for a construction company
- An online platform offering conveyancing solutions
- A customer-facing mobile application to streamline pump installation and maintenance services
Along with web and mobile application development, EB Pearls also provides technology solutions for IoT devices, which is also relevant for property management software.
In conclusion
As you see, all the top companies on the list are good at mobile and web app development for the real estate sector. However, their services differ significantly: some are good at VR solutions and metaverse, others focus on increasing real estate agency productivity with artificial intelligence solutions, and some implement blockchain to make the transactions transparent and seamless. Some will help you build a SaaS product and sell it to other companies.
As we’ve mentioned at the beginning of this article, all these companies are open for remote cooperation, so you don’t have to pay much attention to the location of their head offices. Instead, think carefully about the type of services you need and choose the app partner that is the best at this specific service. And we have our fingers crossed for your seamless cooperation and successful app launch!