Hello beryl,
Thank you for your question.
I searched ["real estate" +software OR program] and as I suspected,
found quite a variety of packages available.
Lister Lite
http://www.listerlite.com/
"Lister LiteTM is a Real Estate software designed to track in-house
listings and showings providing feed back to Agents and Sellers.
Lister LiteTM is created to provide fast response to Agents, allowing
them to quickly discuss showing instructions and setting appointments.
Lister LiteTM was designed by Real Estate Offices with a unique
interface to allow for easy searching of listings and showing
instructions. As additional Real Estate Offices began using the
application additional features were added like Fax Questioners, Ad
Generator, and Seller Letters...
Features
Unlimited Property Listings and Showings per Property Listing.
Unlimited Letters to Sellers, Lister LiteTM can also print the
envelopes.
Unlimited Agent's list as well as Companies List.
Store a picture for each Property Listing.
Fax Back Questioners, send a questioner to Showing Agent s to get
their feedback on the Property."
And much more. Their screen shots appear to be that of a well thought
out program. Pricing also seems reasonable at Single User $ 198.00
and Unlimited Users $ 598.00.
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Instant Impact Gold
http://www.instantimpactgold.com/
This program seems extremely complete offering not only images, but
videos of each property if desired. A demo is downloadable.
"A complete, easy to use marketing and management tool
for the Real Estate Professional. Instant Impact! GOLD gives you the
power to farm prospects, manage contacts, and track all of your
listings and closings. Instant Impact! GOLD will help you prospect
leads, manage your time, market your business, and best of all...make
money! Includes CMA Reports, IPNetMAIL and IP Viewer...
...Instant Impact! GOLD is not a single program, but rather an
integrated suite of software applications that provides all the
capabilities needed to professionally prospect and manage real estate
data. It supports not only database management, but also word
processing, scheduling, contact, listing, and Closing/Escrow
management, not to mention the writing and printing of reports,
flyers, labels, and envelopes."
A description of the features of this program can be found here:
http://www.instantimpactgold.com/features.html
Pricing starts at $309.95 for the downloadable version.
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Jade Property Suite
http://www.jadetools.com/
This $59 program offers:
"Jade Property Suite is a complete real estate software application.
At its heart is a searchable database of real estate properties and
contacts that can be shared on an internal network.
Enter data once and Jade uses it in promotional material, web pages,
mailings to prospective buyers, copy for newspapers, invoices,
letters, reports and presentations.
If you are a real estate agent, realtor or broker, you should see for
yourself how Jade Property Suite can transform your business. Do not
be fooled by the low entry level pricing: This is one of the most
powerful systems on the market. Download it for free (no forms to
fill, no sales reps will call) and decide for yourself...
Jade Property Suite is an integrated system for real estate agents. It
allows you to store all data on real estate properties and contacts in
one place as well as providing many powerful tools that exploit the
potential of this central store. In this one system you control
everything from Web-site listings and email messages through to
brochures, window cards, invoices and standard letters.
Print, email and web publish promotional materials.
Customize or create layouts for brochures and all other printed
materials with the integrated report editor.
Generate Web page listings in seconds that plug into your existing
website.
Match customer enquiries to properties and properties to enquiries.
Respond to enquiries by sending customized listings by email or by
post.
Keep an organized record of everything related to a property and its
sale."
I am very impressed by what I read of this product - particularly
considering its cost! Full features can be found here:
http://www.jadetools.com/jps/features.html
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PowerMate Agent Business Builder 4.0 Professional $ 549
http://www.powermatecorp.com/html/agent_business_builder.html
"POWERFUL NEW FEATURES:
Now! with one-button e-mail and mass e-mail, Stay-In-Touch Postcard
layouts, Action Plans, one-button Backup, Complete Letter Archives,
Recurring Events, Escrow Checklists, Listing Checklists, Extended
Calendar, Important Dates Tracking, Expanded Escrow (transaction)
Tracking, Custom Return Addresses, Auto Fill Names & Numbers, Fast
JPEG Photo Imports, Multiple Page Letters Capability, Additional Fresh
Letters, Palm synchability*, One-button Optional Ad Writing with
Integrated Classified Simplified Pro* for fresh new ads and MLS
descriptions (*separately purchased), networkable. (see more features
below)..."
This program is on sale for $299 at this moment. There is also an
online demo, which I did not view. It may be worth considering, but
did not make as much of an impression on me as did the other programs
listed above.
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Windows On Real Estate
http://www.windowsonrealestate.com/
"Introducing the main features
Listing Management
Windows on Real Estate handle residential and commercial listing. It
produce full color flyers, detail listing reports, book and a wide
range of management reports. Windows on Real Estate is designed to be
use by brokerage firms looking for a competitive marketing advantage.
Manage all your listings by status (active, pending, closed,
cancelled, expired).
The detail listing and the flyer report provide an excellent avenue to
showcase the listed properties in a crisp, clear, easy to read format
that is pleasing to the eye.
Sales/Transaction Management
Windows on Real Estate records every transaction within your firm.
Whether you own the listing or sold another broker's listing. Once a
transaction is opened you can enter and access at any time, all
details of the transaction, and produce the reports and lists you
need.
Windows on Real Estate is a fully integrated system that will track
and process all your real estate transactions from pending to closed.
Windows on Real Estate has a powerful search engine and produces the
ultimate in sales management reports.
Commission Management
Brokers will love the ability to maintain theirs Agents commissions in
a simple and easy process. All commission calculations processes are
automatic.
Escrow/Trust Account Management
Maintaining the escrow account could not be easier ! Enter the
account information once and the program automatically adds and
deducts the amounts for you.
Windows on Real Estate provides fully integrated trust fund accounting
and reporting, ensuring superior organization and regulatory
conformance.
Web Publishing
You will love the simplistic ability to generate your website with
just a few clicks of the mouse ! Access the internet module, the
program knows which listings to add to the web and which ones to
delete; You couldn't ask for a better program !
Customer Mailling
Windows on Real Estate does it all ! A build in option for
professional letters and correspondence, the ability to produce labels
and even invoices !
Windows on Real Estate performs mass and targeted mailings to your
customers with ease. Everything from invoice to letters to envelopes
to labels are all elegantly handled.
Activities/To-Do Management
Brokers now have the opportunity to monitor their Agents activities.
Rental & Leasing Agents can maintain their client list and all
activities on their units with ease.
Advertisement Management
Manage all your advertisement easily.
Integrated Report
Do not waste hours searching through files to locate listings that are
expired or soon to be expired ... Windows on Real Estate does the
work for you ! The Report module provide you 25 integrated reports .
Fully Networkable
Windows on Real Estate can be used on either a stand-alone computer or
on a local area network (Windows95/98®, Novell®, Windows2000® and NT®
Lantastic®, etc.) ...and, there is no additional charge for the
network version. Or, if you initially install Windows on Real Estate
on a stand-alone computer, you can later connect to a local area
network without losing any data.
Built-in Backup
Windows on Real Estate has its own back-up capability. Whether you use
it on a local area network or on a stand-alone computer, you can
back-up your records to a hard drive or to floppy disks. Like other
software developers, we also recommend that you use a full system
backup such as a CD-RW, Zip®, tape, or other high-volume backup to
regularly save data and settings for all programs."
There is a current special on this program for $995. It also appears
to be worth your investigation.
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As you can well imagine, there are hundreds of programs available to
fit your need. The programs above appeared unusually complete or an
excellent value or impressed me in ways that I thought might be of
benefit to you. I have not listed dozens of programs I investigated
that failed to compete with the above listings.
Honorable Mentions:
Top Producer
http://www.topproducersales.com/tp-products.htm#tproducer
A LARGE listing of Realty Software Titles can be found here at
RealtyGuide:
http://www.xmission.com/~realtor1/software.htm
And yet another list from NerdWorld:
http://www.nerdworld.com/nw1381.html
The DMOZ Open Directory lists Real Estate Software here:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Industry-Specific/Real_Estate/
And Yahoo's Directory list is here:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Real_Estate/Software/
Google's directory is available here:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Industry-Specific/Real_Estate/
Many of the listings in the directory will not apply to your needs and
I have offered them only in an effort to be complete and offer you
multiple choices and references.
I trust my research will lead you to just the right program for you.
If a link above should fail to work or anything require further
explanation, please do post a Request for Clarification and I will be
pleased to assist further.
Regards,
-=clouseau=- |
