After hours answering service for real estate agents & teams

AssistBPO's after hours answering service for real estate agents and teams picks up the sign calls, showing requests and buyer questions that arrive at 8pm and on Sunday afternoons, which is when most buyers are out driving neighborhoods. Your after-hours receptionist answers in your team's name, looks up the listing, answers price and open house questions from the MLS sheet, and books showings or a morning callback.

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How does after-hours answering work for real estate?

Co-op agents asking for showing instructions on a weekend get an answer, and a lockbox problem at a showing is escalated to you by text under your rules. Offer-received calls on a Saturday night are paged to the listing agent immediately. Everything else is captured with name, phone, property and reason and handed over in a morning note before your first coffee. Open house weekends can have a dedicated line for sign-in follow-ups. The desk is staffed by employed receptionists with a lead, follows your escalation tree, and logs every call in your CRM with the source and time, so Monday's lead list is ready without listening to voicemail.

What tasks does after-hours answering cover for real estate agents and teams?

  • Answer sign calls and listing questions in your team's name evenings and weekends
  • Look up the property in the MLS and answer price and open house questions
  • Book showings or morning callbacks on the right agent's calendar
  • Give co-op agents showing instructions from the listing record
  • Page the listing agent immediately on offer-received or lockbox issues
  • Capture every caller in the CRM with property, source and time
  • Run an open house weekend line for sign-in follow-ups
  • Deliver a morning handover note with every call and booking

The KPI that matters here

Evening and weekend calls answered by a person, and showings booked from them before Monday. Both show in the morning handover and the weekly review.

What rules does after-hours answering follow for real estate?

  1. TCPA for lead follow-up. Internet leads are called and texted only with the consent their form captured, inside the 8am to 9pm local window, after do-not-call scrubbing, under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act enforced by the FCC. State mini-TCPAs in Florida, Oklahoma and Washington are applied by area code.
  2. Fair Housing in marketing. Listing descriptions, social posts and ad copy avoid protected-class language under the Fair Housing Act enforced by HUD. Your assistant works from a checked word list and flags anything borderline to you before it goes live.
  3. Unlicensed activity limits. Assistants do not negotiate terms, quote commission, advise on price or show property. Those stay with the licensed agent under your state real estate commission's rules. We handle the admin around them.
  4. RESPA and referral fees. No referral fee arrangements and no vendor kickbacks. Vendor recommendations go out as a list, and any affiliated business disclosure you require travels with the file, following RESPA rules enforced by the CFPB.

Real estate software we work in

Also in use

  • SkySlope
  • ShowingTime
  • MLS

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Frequently asked questions

What hours does the after-hours desk cover?

Whatever your daytime coverage does not: typically weekday evenings until 10pm, all day Saturday and Sunday, and public holidays. Some teams add an early-morning window for East Coast buyers calling West Coast listings. The desk is staffed by employed receptionists working in shifts, so a person answers rather than a voicemail, and the handover note reaches you before your day starts.

Which calls get escalated to me at night?

Your escalation tree decides. Most agents ask for an immediate text on offer-received, counter-received, a lockbox or access failure during a showing, a security concern at a listed property, or a client emergency. Everything else, such as a general buyer inquiry or a showing request for tomorrow, is booked or captured for the morning handover. The tree can vary by listing or by agent on a team.

Can the after-hours desk book showings on my listings?

Yes, following the showing instructions on the listing record: notice required, occupancy, lockbox or accompanied, and your approval rule. Where the listing requires seller confirmation, the receptionist requests the showing through ShowingTime and tells the caller when to expect confirmation. Where it allows direct booking, the showing is placed on your calendar and the caller receives a text confirmation with the address and time.

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