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Residential real estate · Zoho partner in the USA · Los Angeles

Zoho for residential real estate, where every open-house sign-in finds its agent

Sunday’s clipboard, Monday’s portal inquiries and Tuesday’s yard-sign calls, each owned by a named agent within minutes.

We hold Zoho Advanced Partner status and work from Glendale with solo agents, teams and brokerages across the US. We configure Zoho CRM and the apps beside it so buyers and sellers hear back fast, listing paperwork travels through Zoho Sign in the right order, and each closing posts the agent’s split to the books on its own.

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01The plain answer

Is Zoho a good fit for residential real estate?

Yes, when you sell homes and want leads, showings, listing paperwork and agent payouts on one contact record you control. It suits solo agents who outgrew a phone full of contacts, teams that share leads, independent brokerages and new-home sales offices. It’s a poor match if you want a portal-style IDX website, lead buying and CRM sold as one subscription, because Zoho has no IDX search of its own; your site provider keeps that part.

  • Strong fitAgent teams sharing leadsBrokerages that keep the contactsNew-home sales offices
  • Fit with a lighter startSolo agents on Bigin or CRM Standard
  • Not the right toolWanting IDX search inside the CRM

02Six ways to sell homes

Which kind of residential business are you?

The record at the center changes with the business: a person, a shared lead pool, an office, or a lot and floor plan. Swipe through the six we set up most.

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    Can Zoho work for a solo agent?

    Yes. One pipeline for buyers, one for sellers, a booking link and e-signatures cover most of a solo practice.

    CRM · Bookings · Sign
  • 2 of 6

    Can a real estate team share leads fairly in Zoho?

    It can. Leads land in a pool, agents claim them in turn, and the team lead sees who replied and who let one sit.

    CRM · Forms · Cliq
  • 3 of 6

    Can an independent brokerage run on Zoho?

    With company-owned contacts, office-level reports and commission plans per agent, yes. Agents keep their view, the broker keeps the database.

    CRM · Books · Analytics
  • 4 of 6

    What about a brokerage with several offices?

    Each office gets its own territory rules and reports, while recruiting, training and the payout run once for the whole group.

    Zoho One · Recruit · Creator
  • 5 of 6

    Can new construction sales teams use Zoho?

    Yes, with communities, lots and floor plans as their own records, so a model-home visitor is tied to the plan they liked.

    CRM · Forms · Creator
  • 6 of 6

    Does it handle relocation and referral desks?

    Outgoing and incoming referrals become deals with the partner agent and the agreed referral fee, followed until the payment arrives.

    CRM · Sign · Books

03Overheard in the office

Five residential headaches Zoho fixes

These come up on almost every first call with a home-sales team. Each note gets crossed out once the matching piece of Zoho is in place.

  • “The open-house sheet sits in my car until Wednesday.”

    A tablet sign-in form creates each visitor as a lead before they reach the curb, with the hosting agent attached.

  • “Two of us called the same portal lead.”

    One owner per lead, set by the claim rule. Everyone else sees that it’s taken and by whom.

  • “We toured before the buyer agreement was signed.”

    The deal can’t move to Touring until the signed agreement from Zoho Sign is on file.

  • “Sellers keep asking how the showings went.”

    Feedback logged after each showing rolls into a weekly seller email the agent reviews before it goes.

  • “Our sphere only hears from us when we need something.”

    Past clients get a call task each quarter and a market note each month, sorted by the agent who knows them.

04One listing, seven steps

How a home listing runs on Zoho, step by step

Follow one seller from a home-value request to the day the split is paid. Scroll and the next messages between seller and agent arrive, with yellow notes for what Zoho did and a card comparing today with Zoho.

Seller and listing agentSample thread
  1. Step 1 · Home-value request
  2. SellerHi! What do you think our place is worth? I put the address in the form on your website.
  3. Zoho CRM Seller lead created with address and source, listing agent assigned, call task set
  4. AgentThanks, it came straight to me. I’ll call you to talk it through.
  5. Step 2 · Listing appointment
  6. AgentPick any time that suits you for the listing appointment. Here’s my booking link.
  7. SellerBooked. See you then.
  8. Zoho Bookings Appointment on the calendar, pricing-prep task created, reminder text queued
  9. Step 3 · Agreement signed
  10. AgentThe listing agreement and disclosures are in your inbox, set up in the order you each sign.
  11. SellerBoth of us have signed.
  12. Zoho Sign Packet sent from the deal in signing order; completed file saved to the listing’s WorkDrive folder
  13. Step 4 · Listing goes live
  14. SellerWho is sorting out photos and the yard sign?
  15. AgentEach has a name next to it on our launch checklist. The MLS entry goes in through the MLS as usual.
  16. Zoho CRM Launch checklist: photos, sign, website and coming-soon dates, each with an owner
  17. Step 5 · Open house and showings
  18. SellerHow did the weekend go?
  19. Zoho Forms Tablet sign-ins turned into leads and routed to agents
  20. AgentEvery visitor signed in on the tablet. Showing feedback is in your weekly update.
  21. Step 6 · Offers and acceptance
  22. AgentThe offers are in. Here they are side by side: price, financing and contingency days.
  23. SellerThat makes it easy. Let’s accept this one.
  24. Zoho CRM Offer marked accepted on the listing; escrow checklist started
  25. Step 7 · Closing and the split
  26. AgentIt has closed. Congratulations!
  27. Zoho Books Agent split worked out and payout bill created
  28. SellerThank you! Happy to leave you a review.
  29. Zoho CRM Seller added to the past-client list with a review request

  1. Step 1Home-value request

    A homeowner asks what their place is worth

    TodayThe request arrives as an email from a website plugin and waits until someone checks that inbox.

    With ZohoZoho Forms or SalesIQ chat creates a seller lead with the address and source, assigns the listing agent and sets a call task.

    FormsSalesIQCRM

  2. Step 2Listing appointment

    The listing appointment gets booked

    TodayThree rounds of phone tag, then a calendar entry nobody else in the office can see.

    With ZohoThe seller picks a slot from a Zoho Bookings link; a pricing-prep task and a reminder text follow on their own.

    BookingsCRM

  3. Step 3Agreement signed

    Listing agreement and disclosures are signed

    TodayPDFs emailed back and forth, one initial missing, the signed copy saved to someone’s laptop.

    With ZohoZoho Sign sends the packet from the deal in signing order, and the completed file lands in the listing’s WorkDrive folder.

    SignWorkDrive

  4. Step 4Listing goes live

    The listing goes live

    TodayMLS entry, photos, the website and the sign order handled from memory by whoever is free.

    With ZohoMLS input still happens in your MLS. Zoho holds the launch checklist, so photos, sign, website and coming-soon dates each have an owner.

    CRM

  5. Step 5Open house and showings

    Open house weekend and private showings

    TodayA paper sheet, a pile of texts from showing agents and a seller left wondering.

    With ZohoVisitors sign in on a tablet, leads route to agents, and showing feedback collects on the listing for the weekly seller update.

    FormsCRM

  6. Step 6Offers and acceptance

    Offers come in and one is accepted

    TodayOffer terms retyped into a spreadsheet at midnight to compare price, credits and contingencies.

    With ZohoEach offer is a record on the listing with price, financing and contingency days side by side; acceptance starts the escrow checklist.

    CRM

  7. Step 7Closing and the split

    Closing day and the agent’s split

    TodayThe commission worked out by hand, then the seller is never heard from again.

    With ZohoClosed triggers the split and a payout bill in Zoho Books, and the seller joins the past-client list with a review request.

    BooksCRM

Sample listing and messages. Forms, disclosure packets and contingency periods follow your state and your brokerage’s policy.

05Agent-team sizer

How should leads move around a team your size?

Set your headcount, tick your lead sources and say how agents split the work to see the routing rules we’d sketch first and the apps behind them. Sample only; your team agreement decides the real rules.

Where do leads come from?
How do agents split the work?

Sample plan

Large team

Where each source goes

    Zoho apps doing the work

      Drops this plan into the enquiry form further down.

      06Twenty apps, four jobs

      Which Zoho apps does a residential brokerage use?

      Zoho CRM sits in the middle; most teams start with five or six apps around it. Here is every app we set up for home sales, grouped by job, with a full build plan for the three that carry the most weight.

      Win the lead

      Paperwork and files

      Money

      Run the office

      07Built for home sales

      What we build for residential teams

      Half a dozen builds we deliver for agents, teams and brokerages. Each one starts from your own team agreement and gets written into the BRD before any building begins.

      1. Open houses

        Tablet sign-in with agency question

        Visitors who already have an agent are logged as a note for the host, and nobody else contacts them.

      2. Buyers

        Buyer agreement gate

        Touring stays locked until the signed buyer agreement is attached, with the compensation terms copied to the deal.

      3. Sellers

        Weekly seller report

        Showing count, feedback quotes and portal activity notes, drafted every Monday for the listing agent to send.

      4. Teams

        Claim pool with a team-lead view

        Unclaimed leads glow on a shared board; the team lead sees reply times per agent each week.

      5. New homes

        Community, lot and plan tracker

        Lots carry status, plan and price, and each buyer’s deal points at the lot they reserved.

      6. Sphere

        Past-client call rhythm

        Quarterly call tasks for each agent’s sphere, skipping anyone who asked not to be contacted.

      08US rules in the setup

      Which US rules shape a residential Zoho setup?

      Four come up on nearly every home-sales project. We turn them into fields, templates and permissions; the broker of record and your lawyer settle the wording and approve it.

      Nothing here is legal advice, and Zoho doesn’t make a brokerage compliant on its own.

      • Texting consent under the TCPA

        Every form stores whether the person agreed to texts, when and on which page. Automated texts only go to contacts with that consent and respect a quiet-hours window you set.

      • Fair housing in listings and ads

        Listing and email templates go through broker review before use. Social ads for homes run with the housing ad settings the platforms require, which limit targeting.

      • Recording calls

        California and some other states need every party’s consent before a call is recorded. When a phone integration records, the greeting says so and the setting is stored per office.

      • Keeping the deal file

        Signed agreements, disclosures and offers stay with the deal and the listing folder. Agents can add documents but not delete them once a deal is closed.

      09Bring your book with you

      Switching from a real estate CRM to Zoho

      Contacts, tags, notes and deal history move across. Before anything is imported we agree which agent owns each contact afterwards, because that’s the question every team asks first.

      • Follow Up Boss

        Smart lists become CRM views and action plans become workflows.

      • kvCORE / BoldTrail

        Contacts and lead sources move; IDX search stays with the website.

      • Lofty

        Leads, notes and transactions move; SMS goes via a connected phone service.

      • Salesforce

        Custom property objects mapped field by field. The Salesforce route

      • HubSpot

        Contacts and deal stages move, sequences get rebuilt. The HubSpot route

      • Mailchimp

        Sphere lists and unsubscribes carried into Zoho Campaigns.

      • Spreadsheets

        Old sign-in sheets and phone exports, cleaned of duplicates first.

      All our Zoho migration routes →

      10Zoho list prices

      How much are Zoho licences for a residential team?

      For a six-person team on Zoho CRM Professional with Sign and Bookings for everyone, plus the shared apps, licences come to about $272 a month billed yearly. Zoho One for the same six is $222 a month, provided everyone on payroll gets a licence.

      List prices are Zoho’s official US rates on yearly billing, sales tax extra. Zoho One without the all-employee rule runs $90 for each user monthly. Our setup work sits outside these figures, at one price fixed in the signed BRD.

      Licence statementTeam of 6 · yearly billingSample

      App and planUnit priceTeam of 6
      Zoho CRM Professional$23 / user$138
      Zoho Sign Standard$10 / user$60
      Zoho Bookings Basic$6 / user$36
      Zoho Books Standard$15 / org$15
      Zoho Forms Basic$10 / account$10
      Zoho Social Standard$10 / brand$10
      Zoho Campaigns Standard$3 / 500 contacts$3
      Only the apps above$272 / mo
      Zoho One, all six employees$37 / employee$222 / mo

      Zoho CRM Standard is $14 and Enterprise $40 per user a month. SalesIQ starts at $7 per operator, WorkDrive Starter at $2.50 per user.

      11Three ways in

      Residential Zoho packages

      Pick the one that matches the size of your team today; each grows into the next without starting over.

      1. Solo and small teams

        Lead Desk

        • Website, portal and open-house leads in one CRM
        • Buyer and seller pipelines with a buyer agreement step
        • Bookings link and Zoho Sign templates

        A single fixed sum, agreed in writing, covering each lead source named in the BRD.

      2. Teams of 5 to 40

        Team Engine

        • Everything in Lead Desk
        • Claim pool, reply timer and team-lead view
        • Weekly seller reports and showing feedback
        • Splits and payouts into Zoho Books

        Your team agreement goes into the BRD, and the fee in it doesn’t change mid-build.

      3. Brokerages and new-home offices

        Brokerage Build

        • Everything in Team Engine
        • Office territories and company-owned contacts
        • Transaction board or lot tracker in Zoho Creator
        • Recruiting pipeline and office reports

        Every phase carries its own fixed price, approved in the BRD ahead of the work.

      The first call is free. A large brokerage may want a paid scoping stage first, and you approve its price before it begins.

      12Who you’ll work with

      Who builds your residential setup?

      We staff each residential project from a 40+ person team run out of Glendale, and the founders take the first calls.

      Ikramul Karim, Co-Founder and CEO of Elite Tech Global
      Ikramul KarimCo-Founder & CEOSteps in on brokerage-wide rollouts and anything touching several platforms.
      Khris Kakosimidi, Co-Founder and CFO of Elite Tech Global
      Khris KakosimidiCo-Founder & CFOReviews split plans, caps and payout logic with your bookkeeper.
      • Solution architectMaps lead sources and team rules into the BRD.
      • Zoho developerBuilds the routing, forms, Sign templates and Books link.
      • QATests each rule with made-up sign-ins and dummy closings.
      • TrainerCoaches agents on the phone app and admins on the desktop.

      13Getting started

      The first four steps with us

      Nothing changes for your agents until these are done. The full project track lives on How we work.

      1. Talk it throughA call about your lead sources, how the team shares work and what agents use now.
      2. Write the BRDPipelines, routing, split plans and dates, signed by you before building.
      3. Build and importZoho set up, contacts and active listings moved, rules tested on sample leads.
      4. Switch on and coachAgents trained in short sessions, online or at your Southern California office.
      The complete track, step by step →

      14Agents and brokers ask

      Residential real estate on Zoho: common questions

      Open houses, buyer agreements, IDX, lead splits and cost. Bring the questions your team keeps arguing about.

      Ask us on a callTry the team sizer →

      Should a solo real estate agent use Zoho CRM?

      Yes, and you can start small. There’s a no-cost Zoho CRM edition covering three users, and paid editions start at $14 per user monthly on yearly billing. Many solo agents begin with buyer and seller pipelines, a Bookings link and Zoho Sign, then add routing once they hire a buyer agent.

      Can Zoho make sure a buyer agreement is signed before we tour homes?

      Yes. We add a required step to the buyer pipeline: the deal can’t move to Touring until a signed agreement from Zoho Sign is attached. The agreed compensation terms are copied onto the deal so the closing statement and the agent payout match.

      Can open-house sign-ins go straight into Zoho CRM?

      They can. A Zoho Forms sign-in runs on a tablet or a QR code at the door, creates each visitor as a lead linked to the listing and the hosting agent, and records whether they already work with an agent and whether they agreed to texts.

      Does Zoho include IDX property search or an MLS feed?

      No. Zoho doesn’t offer IDX search, so the website’s current IDX vendor stays and passes inquiries and saved-search signups to Zoho CRM. MLS input stays in your MLS; Zoho tracks the listing launch tasks around it.

      How should a real estate team divide leads in Zoho?

      Most teams pick one of three rules: round robin, a claim pool with a reply timer, or routing by area or price range. Sphere and referral leads usually skip routing and stay with the agent who earned them. We write your chosen rule into the BRD and test it before launch.

      How much would Zoho cost a five-agent team?

      Five agents on Zoho CRM Professional ($23) and Zoho Sign Standard ($10), both quoted per user a month with yearly billing, add up to $165 monthly. With Zoho One at $37 an employee, everyone on payroll must be licensed, so we confirm with Zoho how independent contractor agents count before you choose.

      Can a new construction sales office track communities, lots and floor plans?

      Yes. Communities, lots and plans become their own records in Zoho CRM or a Zoho Creator app, with lot status, base price and options. A model-home visitor is linked to the plan they liked, and a reservation moves the lot to Reserved for everyone at once.

      Will agents actually use Zoho on their phones?

      That’s what we design for. Agents get the Zoho CRM mobile app trimmed to their own leads, showings and tasks, with call and text buttons, and short role-based training.

      15Let’s talk

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      Real people, one team. Led by co-founders Ikramul Karim and Khris Kakosimidi, and a 40+ member team across Zoho, AWS and AI.

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