Virtual assistants for real estate
Listings, viewings, follow-up and the paperwork between them — handled by somebody who already knows what a listing pack is and does not need the vocabulary explained twice.
- From $10/hour
- Both sides of every match vetted
- Member of VAASA
The work
What lands on the desk here.
- Listing creation, upkeep and portal syndication
- Viewing coordination and confirmations
- New enquiry response inside your agreed window
- Lead follow-up sequences and reminders
- CRM hygiene — duplicates, stale records, pipeline stages
- Listing packs, brochures and floor-plan collation
- Vendor and buyer correspondence along an agreed line
- Chasing documents through to exchange or transfer
- Weekly vendor reports and activity summaries
- Diary control across a team of agents
Where the line is
No advice on price, no negotiation, and nothing that needs a licence.
A Nira professional coordinates the work around a transaction. They do not advise a vendor on an asking price, negotiate an offer, or represent your agency in any conversation where the number is being agreed — those are licensed activities in most of the markets we work in and they belong to you. They do not hold or handle client money, and they are not a substitute for a transaction co-ordinator where your jurisdiction requires a qualified one. What they do is make sure every one of those conversations happens on time, with the right paperwork already attached.
In practice
How this tends to go.
Estate agency is a business where almost nothing is difficult and everything is time-critical, which is an unusual and quite punishing combination. An enquiry answered in ten minutes is a viewing; the same enquiry answered the next morning is somebody else’s viewing. A listing that goes live on two portals instead of five sells slower. That is the whole cost, and it stays invisible until it is not. None of that requires judgement. All of it requires somebody to be there.
What tends to get handed over first is the enquiry queue, because it is the one where the cost of being slow is measurable and immediate. After that it is usually viewing coordination and confirmations, then the follow-up sequences that every agency intends to run and very few actually run past week three. The pattern is consistent: the work that gets handed over is the work that is sequential, repeatable, and currently being done at nine in the evening.
The CRM is where the compounding happens. Most agency pipelines are substantially fiction by month six — duplicate records, contacts sitting in a stage they left months ago, and a valuation from March that nobody has touched since. No integration fixes that. It is maintenance, and it needs doing every week by the same person. The CRM management page covers what that actually involves.
Transaction chasing is the least glamorous and most valuable of the lot. Between an accepted offer and completion there is a long queue of documents that somebody has to keep asking for, and the difference between a chain that closes and one that collapses is very often just persistence. A professional whose whole job that week is the chase does it better than a negotiator doing it between viewings.
Support is arranged at fifteen, thirty or forty hours a week and starts from $10 an hour — see pricing for what each level covers. If it is the role rather than the sector you are weighing up, hire a virtual assistant covers the same ground from that angle.
Support levels
Fifteen, thirty or forty hours a week.
15 hrs / week
Nira Focus
Focused support. More time for what matters.
Founders and professionals who need consistent administrative support without a full-time commitment.
30 hrs / week
Nira Elevate
More support. More capacity to grow.
Growing businesses that need deeper support across administration, clients, systems and daily operations.
40 hrs / week
Nira Signature
Dedicated support. Seamlessly integrated.
Executives and established businesses requiring a dedicated professional who becomes an extension of the team.
From $10/hour. Real estate support is delivered at one of three levels, and a business can move between them as the work grows.
Questions
Before you enquire.
Can a virtual assistant respond to portal enquiries directly?
Yes, and it is usually the highest-value thing they do. Speed of first response is the part of the funnel most agencies lose without noticing, and it is entirely a staffing problem rather than a skill one. The response follows a line you have agreed, and anything that becomes a conversation about price or terms comes straight to you.
Will they work weekends, when viewings actually happen?
Hours are agreed up front and can sit where the work is rather than where a standard week is. What we will not do is quietly imply a seven-day service and then staff it with one person — if the weekend genuinely needs cover, that is a conversation about the level of support rather than a scheduling detail.
We use a CRM nobody has heard of. Is that a problem?
Rarely. Estate agency CRMs are more alike than their marketing suggests, and someone who has run pipeline hygiene in one learns another quickly. We match on the stack you already run where we can, and where we cannot the first fortnight is spent learning it against your process rather than billed as a project.
Can they prepare listing packs and marketing material?
Collation, formatting and scheduling, yes — assembling the pack, sizing the images, getting the floor plan in the right place and the listing live on every portal. Original design and photography are a different job, and the website side of that is coordinated through trusted development partners rather than done in-house.
Where this goes next
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