[ INDUSTRY / REAL ESTATE ]

Win the instruction. Automate everything around it.

Your agents win valuations and close deals — and lose hours to missed calls, portal enquiry floods, unqualified viewings and lettings admin. We design, build and run the automation layer around your negotiators, mapped below to the exact workflows we automate.

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Works with your existing CRM and portalsNegotiators stay in chargeSpeed-to-lead measured in seconds

missed · unqualified · chased by hand

answered · qualified · booked

[ 01 / SOUND FAMILIAR ]

The enquiries you miss are the instructions you lose.

Most agencies don't have a lead problem — they have a response problem. The applicants and vendors are already calling and emailing; the gap is what happens in the minutes after.

Calls missed on viewings

Negotiators are out showing properties when the phone rings — enquiries hit voicemail or ring out.

Cost · A missed call at 2pm is an applicant registered with the agency across the road by 2:15.

Slow portal responses

Rightmove and Zoopla enquiries queue in a shared inbox until someone gets back to the desk.

Cost · Speed-to-lead decides who gets the viewing — hours-later replies convert a fraction of instant ones.

Unqualified viewings

Slots get booked for applicants with no proof of funds, wrong budget or no chain position checked.

Cost · Every wasted viewing is negotiator time and vendor goodwill spent on someone who was never buying.

Lettings admin drag

Referencing chases, tenancy paperwork and renewal dates are tracked in heads and spreadsheets.

Cost · Move-ins slip, renewals get missed, and your best lettings staff spend their week chasing documents.

No source attribution

Nobody can say which portal, board or campaign actually produced last quarter's instructions.

Cost · Marketing spend gets renewed on gut feel while the channels that win instructions go unmeasured.

[ 02 / THE USE-CASE MAP ]

Where automation earns its keep in an estate agency.

Select a workflow to see what the automated version does — and follow the link to the full solution page for the build we'd run.

Enquiry handling

Every call answered while the team is out on viewings.

What happens here

Calls answered in two rings, any hour — applicant and vendor enquiries captured, not voicemailed
Callers routed by intent: valuations, viewings, lettings queries, maintenance
Details taken consistently — property of interest, budget, position, contact preferences
Every call logged in your CRM against the right applicant or property record

In practice

A vendor calls about a valuation at 1:15pm while both negotiators are mid-viewing. By 1:18 the details are in the CRM and the valuation is pencilled for Wednesday morning.

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[ 03 / HOW WE GET YOU THERE ]

Strategy first. Then architecture. Then the build.

The same disciplined path as every Elemra engagement — scoped to the workflows above that hurt your agency most.

01
PHASE 1 / STRATEGY
Map the missed business
We map where enquiries leak — missed calls, slow portal replies, unqualified viewings — and put a number on each.
02
PHASE 2 / ARCHITECTURE
Design around your stack
The automation layer is designed into your existing CRM, portals and diary tools — signed off by you before anything is built.
03
PHASE 3 / BUILD
Build and rehearse
We build the highest-value workflow first and test it against real enquiries and real edge cases.
04
PHASE 4 / LAUNCH
Launch in stages
One branch or workflow at a time, with the manual process running alongside until you trust the automated one.
05
PHASE 5 / OPERATE
Run and extend
We monitor, tune and extend the layer — reporting in answered calls, booked viewings and won instructions, not vanity metrics.

[ 04 / WHAT CHANGES ]

What the agency looks like afterwards.

The point is simple: every enquiry answered, every viewing worth the drive, and negotiators spending their day on vendors and buyers.

No missed calls

Every enquiry answered on the first ring, evenings and weekends included.

Speed-to-lead in seconds

Portal enquiries answered in minutes, not hours — before the applicant contacts the next agency.

Viewings that convert

Qualified, proceedable applicants in the diary — fewer wasted slots, happier vendors.

Lettings files complete

Referencing, agreements and compliance chased automatically; move-ins stop slipping.

Attribution you can trust

Every instruction traced to its source — spend goes where the business actually comes from.

Growth without headcount

Handle more stock and more applicants without a proportional rise in admin staff.

[ 05 / QUESTIONS ]

Common questions from estate agents.

No. The layer is built around the tools you already run — your CRM, Rightmove and Zoopla feeds, diary and referencing providers. If it has an API or a structured feed, we can usually integrate it; that's confirmed before you commit to a build.

They'll notice calls answered instantly and viewings booked on the first contact. Anything client-facing runs on your approved wording and tone, and anything sensitive — a complaint, a difficult negotiation — routes straight to a person. You decide where that line sits during architecture.

The strategy phase answers that with your numbers, but the pattern is consistent: agencies missing calls start with enquiry handling; agencies slow on portals start with follow-up and qualification; lettings-heavy agencies start with the admin workflows. One workflow first, proven on real volume, then extend.

Independents often see the fastest payback, because one missed vendor call costs a whole instruction and there's no head office picking up the slack. The build is scoped to your volume, and if the maths doesn't clear for your branch, we'll say so in the strategy phase.

There's a build engagement, then a monthly run cost. In the strategy phase we cost your current leakage — missed calls, slow portal replies, wasted viewings — so the business case is explicit before any build. If it doesn't stack up for your volume, we'll tell you.

[ BOOK A STRATEGY CALL ]

Find out what your missed enquiries are costing.

A 30-minute call: we look at where your agency's enquiries leak, show you which of the workflows above would pay back fastest, and give you a straight answer on the maths. No obligation.