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| Global real estate markets and the construction industry are offering new opportunities for growth. Many factors have contributed to the booming real estate industry in the past few years. However, the industry faces challenges. Traditionally, an industry accustomed to privacy, the Internet and technology improvements have been transforming the industry. The real estate industry is increasingly getting more regulated, stable and multi-faceted. Companies that recognize and embrace the changes are emerging as leaders and maximizing returns and customer acquisitions. |
| The industry is characterized by a transactional nature where a multitude of players are involved at each stage of the transaction, and each stage has a plethora of paperwork and regulatory environments to deal with. Businesses operate across multiple locations and deal with numerous entities for a single transaction. |
| Iqura has been developing solutions for the real estate industry for more than eight years across the transaction chain from homeowner to realtor to mortgage companies and title companies. Our solutions are designed to allow the industry to focus on its core competencies of property purchase, sale, development and management while our services streamline its processes, improve customer interaction and maximize profitability. |
| We combine deep industry knowledge with extensive technical expertise and past project track record to help customers leverage information technology and achieve measurable gains in their businesses. |
| Iqura’s Real Estate and Construction Practice focuses on providing information technology solutions and services to the following industry segments:
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- Real Estate Offices
- Realtors and Agents
- Home Inspection companies
- Builders and Developers
- Mortgage Companies & Financial Agents
- Architects
- Title Insurance Companies
- Construction Companies
- Homeowners, buyers and sellers
- Contracting Agencies
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| Our solutions for the real estate industry are wide-ranging and can be customized to individual requirements. We list below some of the solution areas and ideas for improvement in those areas. |
| Transaction Workflow Automation |
| Iqura can help businesses significantly improve their productivity by identifying their transactional bottlenecks and implementing automation processes to improve productivity. These could range from simple like help desks to online scheduling & calendaring to e-mail delivery of statements.
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Online Transaction Management |
| Move to the next phase of improvement and allow us to move your transactions online – to the web, email and to mobile. Our long-standing e-business experience ensures that you will get a solid and robust infrastructure whilst reducing your cycle times dramatically and improving profits by reducing the cost of transaction management.
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MLS Integration & Customization |
| Get more value from your MLS! Use our services to integrate multiple listing services under a common group. Or integrate other applications directly with MLS data to ease usage and make information available transparently. Provide enhanced search services and allow users to sign-up for preferred properties to be e-mailed to them as and when new properties get listed.
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E-Commerce Implementations |
| Move service payments to an electronic platform. Automate annual or monthly service charges through a subscription-based service. Allow your customers to select, schedule, buy and pay for your services through the Internet.
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Document Management |
Iqura can help reduce traditional methods that are paper-centric, time-consuming and inefficient, when faced with the increasing plethora of documents to be created, maintained and published, many of which are legally mandatory. Our solutions will reduce paper work and allow better communication and collaboration.
For example, centralize documents for each transaction in a single location online and allow all interested parties access based on their requirements. Provide status and version control as well as the ability to monitor the entire transaction. Guaranteed to reduce your transaction turnaround time significantly!
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Paper-to-PDF Automation |
| Iqura has long-standing expertise in paper-to-PDF automation and e-delivery of services. We can help you automate and transform all your regular data entry and paper-forms to automated forms and then convert resultant data to PDF documents for easy delivery, sharing and management across transaction parties.
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Mapping & GIS Solutions |
| Real estate is all about location, location and location so goes the quote. Iqura can help you in numerous ways to speed up, improve, enhance or optimize your services with the help of mapping and GIS services. Solutions could range from driving directions being emailed to an open house for invitees to providing all available properties for sale in a zip code with nearby amenities.
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Online Tools & Calculators |
| Ease your service purchases by allowing your customers to self-help themselves come to a decision on which service is ideal for them from your available services. We can design online tools, demos, walk-throughs and calculators which will present your service clearly and easily to your customer.
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Custom designed and template websites |
| If you don’t yet have a web presence or need to revamp your existing presence, we provide custom design of websites and web applications. For those with lesser time and smaller budgets, we have readymade template which you can choose from and get started quickly.
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Broker Websites |
| Setup, manage and update your own real estate agent / broker website with no programming or graphic design skills required. Use our readymade packages which include website, MLS integration, hosting and many other features all for a low monthly fee. Or choose to go for a custom designer website for your business.
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E-forms and online forms |
| Most real estate services involve or require the use of forms, contracts and many other paper documentation. We can help you create online forms or PDF-based e-forms that will ease the entire data entry process, allow customers to directly fill-up the forms and even automate signing through the use of digital signatures.
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Besides the above, we have solutions for the Emerging Real Estate Industry including:
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| Mobile Solutions |
| Iqura can help you extend your desk-based or web-based programs to the mobile. Whether its order data, sales history, real estate information, scheduling details or customer information, all of it is more useful in the field along with your staff. We can help you in extending your existing applications to wireless devices as well as to traditional tablet PCs.
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Value Added Online Services |
| As the real estate industry transforms itself with the use of technology, more and more service providers are using the Internet to provide value-added services such as property valuation and appraisal, virtual tours and 3D modeled scenarios.
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Emerging Standards |
| Talk to us to learn how emerging standards such as CRTML (Comprehensive Real Estate Transaction Markup Language), RETML, OpenMLS and RELML can help ensure that your systems are open, can communicate with other emerging systems and help you emerge as a leader in the long term.
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Case Studies |
Leading Home Inspection Company |
The customer is a leading home inspection company and part of a Fortune 500 real estate company. The company provides home inspection services across the United States. Over a span of several years, Iqura has been working to improve efficiencies across the board, eliminate data re-entry at multiple stages across disparate systems, improve turn-around times and improve productivity of staff.
Iqura has built many systems across the enterprise that range from document conversion, document migration, document delivery, automation of reporting process, web-based scheduling and calendaring, order booking, online quote engines, and document storage systems.
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Leading Real Estate Office |
The customer is the number one real estate brokerage office by transactions; dollar volume and market share in Arizona.
Iqura provided services that ranged from website creation, a full back-office workflow management tool that includes multiple MLS integration, agent management, agent rosters, agent websites, office management, open house schedules, live chat, and a whole range of other executive services.
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Leading Home Builder |
| The customer is a large developer of residential homes in India. Iqura built a trend-setting web application that not only showcased the entire company and its projects but allowed customers to have individual secure areas where they could customize their homes as they were getting constructed. From choice of paint color to wall tiles to fittings, a customer had the flexibility to customize and preview her entire home and seamless communicate with the developer for her selections. |
| Iqura has built many long term relationships with its real estate customers and has executed numerous projects in this segment. Click here for a partial listing of some of our customers. |
| To discuss how Iqura can help your business please contact us. |
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