Tracking tenant leases, maintenance requests, and rent payments across three different tools with no single view of what's happening across your portfolio?
Managing viewings, leads, and offers through a general-purpose CRM that doesn't know what a property pipeline looks like?
Real Estate Software Development Company
Real estate operations run on disconnected tools -- spreadsheets for leases, text messages for maintenance requests, manual processes for bookings and viewings. We build custom real estate software that connects these workflows into one system, so property teams spend time on properties and tenants rather than chasing data.
We build for property managers, real estate agents, proptech companies, and property developers who need software designed around their portfolio structure, not a generic template that forces their operation to conform to someone else's workflow.
Property management systems -- tenant and lease records, rent collection, maintenance workflows, owner reporting
Real estate CRM and sales pipeline tools built for the property sales cycle, not retrofitted from generic CRM
Listing platforms with MLS and portal integration for search, lead capture, and agent tools
Short-term rental platforms with booking engine, channel manager, and dynamic pricing
RaftLabs builds custom real estate software for property managers, real estate agents, proptech startups, and property developers. We develop property management systems, real estate CRM and sales pipeline tools, property listing platforms with MLS integration, short-term rental and vacation rental platforms, virtual tour software, and AI-powered valuation and analytics tools. Most real estate software projects deliver in 12--16 weeks at a fixed cost with full source code ownership.
10+Real estate products
·40%Faster check-in (client result)
·FixedCost delivery
·12-14Week delivery
Real estate businesses run on systems that don't talk to each other
The property management system doesn't connect to the booking engine. The CRM doesn't know about lease status. Maintenance requests arrive by text and get tracked in a WhatsApp thread. Every handoff between systems costs time and creates errors. The result is a team that spends its day reconciling data rather than managing properties.
Purpose-built real estate software changes that: one system where tenant records connect to lease data, maintenance requests have a full audit trail, rent collection is automated, and the owner portal shows exactly what the landlord needs without a phone call. We build around your portfolio structure rather than asking your portfolio to fit a generic template.
We build for property management companies managing residential, commercial, or mixed portfolios; real estate agencies and proptech startups; holiday rental operators and short-let businesses; and property developers managing off-plan sales.
What we build
Property management systems
Custom PMS covering tenant and lease records, automated rent collection, arrears follow-up, maintenance request workflows from tenant submission through contractor assignment to completion sign-off, property inspection reporting on mobile, and owner reporting with income and expense statements. Built for the specific tenancy types in your portfolio -- residential ASTs, commercial full-repairing leases, short-stay licences, or mixed portfolios -- rather than a residential-only template. Integration with Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage for accounting. The difference between a generic PMS and a custom one is that your data model and your workflows are built in, not approximated.
Real estate CRM and sales tools
Sales pipeline tools built for how property deals actually work: lead capture from portals and web forms, property-specific pipeline stages (enquiry, viewing, offer, under offer, exchange, completion), offer management with negotiation history, document tracking per transaction, and commission calculation. Automated viewing appointment scheduling with calendar integration. Follow-up sequences triggered by pipeline stage and inactivity period. Agent performance reporting by instructions, viewings, offers, and completions. Integration with Rightmove, Zoopla, and Property Finder for listing data and lead routing.
Property listing platforms
Search and listing platforms with property database, advanced filter search (location, price, bedroom count, property type, lease terms), saved searches and email alerts, lead capture and CRM routing, and agent profile pages. MLS and portal integration for data syndication to Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, and Property Finder. IDX/RETS integration for US markets. Map-based search with neighbourhood data layers. Valuation request tools. Built for property agencies, portals, and proptech companies that need a listing product under their own brand rather than relying entirely on third-party portals for discovery.
Short-term rental platforms
Direct booking engines with real-time availability calendars, dynamic pricing rules, instant or request-based booking, and online payment processing. Channel manager integration with Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, and Expedia to synchronise availability and rates without manual updates. Guest communication automation -- pre-arrival instructions, check-in details, mid-stay check-ins, and review request sequences. Housekeeping scheduling tied to checkout and check-in times. Owner reporting with occupancy rate, revenue per property, and booking source analysis. The operational infrastructure that lets a short-let operator scale without proportionally scaling headcount.
Tenant portals and resident apps
Mobile and web portals giving tenants self-service access to their lease, rent statement, payment history, and maintenance request submission and tracking. Digital document signing for lease renewals and addenda. Community notice boards and building announcements for BTR and co-living operators. Parcel and visitor management. Move-in and move-out condition report sign-off. Push notifications for maintenance job updates, rent reminders, and announcements. White-labelled with the property management company's branding. Reduces inbound calls and emails from tenants who need information the system already has.
AI valuation and analytics
Automated valuation models (AVMs) trained on comparable transaction data, local market trends, and property characteristics for instant rental and sale price estimates with explainable outputs. Dynamic pricing recommendations for short-let operators based on occupancy history, local events, and competitor rates. Portfolio performance dashboards with occupancy rate, void period analysis, and rent per square foot by property type. Market trend monitoring with rent review alert triggers when comparable rents move above the current rate. Lead scoring for property sales teams using behavioural signals from portal enquiries. See our dedicated page on AI for real estate.
Frequently asked questions
We have built a serviced apartment booking and property management platform covering direct bookings, channel management, housekeeping scheduling, and owner financial reporting. Across our real estate portfolio we have also delivered CRM and sales pipeline tools for property agencies and listing platform products for proptech companies. Our real estate software work spans property management, short-let operations, sales pipeline, and listing platforms -- not a single product type. If your project is adjacent to any of these areas, we are able to scope it based on direct build experience rather than theoretical knowledge.
Portal integration approach depends on what each platform makes available. For Rightmove and Zoopla, we use their partner APIs to receive inbound leads directly into the CRM and, where the relationship supports it, to push listing data outward so agents manage listings in one place. For OTA channel management with Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, and Expedia, we use channel manager middleware that handles real-time availability and rate synchronisation across platforms. For US markets, we use RETS and IDX feeds for MLS data integration. The specific integration scope is confirmed during discovery based on which portals you use, your existing relationship with them, and which data flows matter most for your operation.
Yes. Migration from an existing PMS starts with extracting your current data -- tenant records, lease history, rent payment records, maintenance history -- into a structured format we can import into the new system. We run both systems in parallel during the cutover period so nothing is lost while the team transitions. Data migration scope is agreed and costed during discovery: simple migrations of flat data sets are faster than complex migrations from systems with unusual data structures or missing export functionality. We have experience extracting data from systems that don't offer clean exports by working with database dumps or structured spreadsheet exports.
Focused builds covering a single function -- a booking engine, a tenant portal, or a listing search product -- typically run $20,000 to $50,000 at a fixed cost. A full property management system with tenant and lease management, rent collection, maintenance workflows, accounting integration, and owner portal typically runs $50,000 to $150,000 depending on portfolio complexity and the number of integrations. We scope every project before quoting so the fixed cost reflects the actual work, not a template estimate. The scope-first approach means you know the cost and timeline before any development starts, not after.
