How Real Estate Mobile Apps Can Increase Business Profits

Today’s generation is hugely mobile app dependent. Be it booking cabs or buying clothes, a mobile app is one of the most important elements of our life. No wonder, more and more people are now depending on the mobile apps for real estate investment. There are a number of web portals and mobile app-based stores where one can easily search for their preferred locations and get properties within their budget.

Many companies have already jumped on the mobile bandwagon and optimized their websites for hand-held devices. However, websites and their mobile versions, blogs and social networking accounts are not enough today for real estate professionals to attract tech-savvy buyers, sellers and renters.

Mobile apps are a greater way to build rapport with clients instantly. With the increasing number of mobile devices, more and more brokers add mobile applications to their marketing tool box in order to reach a greater quantity of home-buyers and improve conversion rate.

Similarly, statistics tell us that real estate businesses are in favor of real estate mobile app development, globally.

30 % share listing information with friends and family 

42 % download a home buying search app

55 % search by city

57 % locate a house listing with GPS 

60 % find listing details, price, description, amenities and contact information 

66 % inquire for more information about a listing 

78 % view photos and videos of homes

Mobile-based apps are quite user-friendly, easy to use and give you a world full of real estate updates. Given below are the few advantages that are attracting home-seekers to use mobile-based apps.

• Time saving: Probably what the gen next loves the most is the time saved. Given the time spent to reach the office and get back to home, one hardly gets free hours. While on the move, the millennials can browse through the lists and bookmark the choicest ones.
• Cost cutting: No need to pay for the conveyance cost to reach the project site locations as you could share a similar experience with the aid of the top quality images and videos uploaded at the sites. At many online sites, you can even take a look at the 360 view of the properties that give you a real-life personalized experience- as if you were physically present at the site. In addition, when you book a property online, you save the money to be paid to the real estate broker in the cases of traditional buying methods.
• Property mobile apps: To make your online experience more user-friendly, some builder houses have launched their property mobile apps. If you are having a notion that these apps could only make your process of searching the properties easier or can be at best used to save time, you are wrong.
• Multiple benefits of property mobile apps: The lists of benefits you achieve depend on the number of features incorporated into an app. For example, some builders include the information in relation to the proximity of recreation centers, educational institutes, shopping malls and hospitals from the project sites. Such information really serves us a lot if we are planning to buy properties at some developing part of a city.
• Direct communication: No need to contact a builder via a middleman. Just note down the contact details furnished online and get in touch with the real estate builders, directly.

Real estate agents can use apps to showcase the available homes. These are some of the very unique features that are only found with the use of mobile apps. The agents can also provide home buying and home selling consultation forms through the apps. Free consultation forms are great at generating leads for the agent. This is to show how great this tool of marketing is.

We should not forget that mobile phones are still gadgets of communication. But this serves as an advantage to the marketers since these mobile apps have features like "tell a friend". With such features, the mobile user can recommend the mobile app to their friend and thus information is passed faster and quicker to many people.

Mobile Apps will most likely turn into a great marketing tool for real estate agents. They are the latest thing out there and generate a lot of interest from consumers. One should not be left behind for whatever reason as the trends are changing and one should work to suit with the emerging trends.