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Process Improvement

How To Simplify Real Estate Property Management

Written By: Ray Waldron
October 12, 2023
6 min read

Managing a large number of properties is a highly complex and detail-oriented endeavor. As you seek to improve occupancy rates, your real estate property management firm must constantly juggle the need to find tenants, handle maintenance tasks, communicate with owners and renters, monitor insurance, and ensure that properties are in compliance with all regulations and requirements. Handling this work and communication with manual processes results in complex, error-prone workflows. That’s where automated property management programs can help.

The right real estate property management software can dramatically increase efficiency and profitability by automating routine tasks, streamlining processes, and facilitating clear communication. A superior property management system will allow your teams to customize features to their unique working style and the needs of the business.

As a no-code application development platform, Quickbase offers an industry-leading suite of software for property management, and delivers all the tools you need to simplify real estate property management. With Quickbase, any member of your team – even users with no coding experience – can create software solutions that solve workflow issues and business problems.

The advantages of an automated software solution

An automated solution for real estate property management delivers significant benefits over manual processes that rely on spreadsheets and checklists. With the right solution, you can:

  • Streamline task management. From tracking maintenance requests to monitoring profitability, managing properties with spreadsheets and manual to-do lists inevitably results in errors, delays, and overruns. This kind of “Gray Work” can be a major challenge - in fact, recent Quickbase research found that 54% of survey respondents spend 10+ hours per week chasing information they need from different people and systems. The right software solution can simplify task management and accelerate timelines, automatically allocating resources, tracking deadlines, flagging issues, and delivering real-time status reports.

  • Increase visibility. To keep tenants happy and ensure profitability, your teams need real-time insight into what’s happening with every property, project, contractor, and maintenance request. An automated system aggregates data from multiple sources to deliver a real-time view of where everything stands.

  • Move quickly. Growing your real estate property management business means taking advantage of new opportunities and quickly responding to emergencies. With automated property management software, you can stay agile and scale easily as you take on more properties.

  • Enhance productivity. Automated solutions let your team members get more done each day, spending less time on tedious and repetitive tasks and more time on high-value projects that move your business forward.

  • Improve retention. With software that streamlines every aspect of real estate property management, you’ll have an easier time hiring and retaining top talent.

Quickbase: No-Code Tools for Real Estate Property Management

Quickbase is the only fully customizable, no-code platform that empowers business users to improve workflows and collaboration through automation, real-time insights, and unmatched support. With Quickbase, your teams have the power to create solutions for complex business processes and solve the problems they understand best.

In addition to providing tools to build software from scratch, our platform provides pre-configured solutions for many industries, including retail property management. Our tools enable your teams to:

  • Manage every stage of real estate projects with confidence. Quickbase assures every team member can access the information they need, at the moment they need it. Personalized dashboards and reports, granular multi-stakeholder permissions, and mobile capabilities deliver real-time visibility into the status of every property and project.

  • Integrate data across systems. Quickbase lets you easily connect critical systems to centralize data, providing a 360° view of your properties and your business.

  • Solve problems with custom tools. Our no-code platform lets you build and customize tools without needing to invest in new software for each project. With drag-and-drop integrations, you can easily connect the systems you already use to support your current file management, communication, and contract management practices.

  • Centralize documentation. Securely manage all your critical documents – leases, property agreements, contracts, and project data – in one location, making it easy to pull up a contract or property agreement in seconds.

In addition to real estate property management, Quickbase provides solutions for retail property management and commercial property management software.

Elements of the Quickbase Platform

The Quickbase platform is based on 20+ years of experience successfully empowering non-coders to create powerful solutions to fix workflow gaps and solve business problems. Our platform delivers:

  • A proven governance model. With Quickbase, citizen developers and business technologists have the power to create their own digital solutions while IT provides a framework, oversight, and control. Appropriate guardrails and support ensure that projects conform to standards for design, security, and compliance.

  • Enterprise-ready security. Robust administrative controls make it easy to securely manage users, roles, and permissions while advanced data encryption ensures compliance with regulatory best practices and internal security standards.

  • Real-time integration. Quickbase Pipelines lets users quickly connect disconnected systems in minutes using a drag-and-drop visual builder to integrate data and workflows.

  • Mobile-friendly solutions. Quickbase applications are instantly mobile-ready without the need for a dedicated design team to lead the transition.

  • Personalized visibility. Quickbase delivers real-time, actionable insights into every operation and process.

Why Quickbase?

As true pioneers in no-code development, Quickbase provides the tools that allow professional developers to be more productive and business users with no background in coding to build sophisticated software systems. By allowing more employees to get involved in the technical process, Quickbase helps to lower costs and deliver useful applications more quickly. No-code development tools empower all employees to use their strengths to reach greater potential while moving the business forward through continuous app innovation.

One of the biggest benefits of Quickbase’s no code tools is the speed of application development. Rather than burdening IT departments with an endless backlog of projects to create and modify, organizations can rely on users throughout the business to build solutions to the problems they see, freeing up IT staff to focus on tasks like security, governance, and strategy.

FAQs

What is real estate property management software?

Real estate property management software streamlines and automates many of the administrative and financial aspects of managing property. With automated real estate property management solutions, firms can accelerate timelines, minimize errors, and eliminate repetitive manual processes to increase efficiency and productivity, making it easier to attract and retain talent and deliver on expectations for profitability.

What is no-code development?

No-code development is a modern way of building business applications using a visual builder and drag-and-drop tools rather than coding software line by line. No-code development enables users with little or no technical background to create powerful solutions that solve complex problems and fix workflow gaps.


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Written By: Ray Waldron

Ray Waldron is an Associate Content Marketing Manager at Quickbase.

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