Real Estate Texting Software for Open-House and Portal Leads
Real estate texting software helps agents follow up open-house signups and portal leads by text. ColdTexting sends a first text right after signup, runs drip sequences until the lead replies, respects quiet hours by time zone and keeps an audit trail of consent and messages.
Open house and portal leads
Every lead arrives with the proof that you may text them
Sales texts in real estate need prior express written consent. The sign-in sheet and the portal form are where that consent is won or lost.
Open house consent is a clear checkbox on the sign-in form that names your brokerage and says the visitor agrees to receive texts about the property and similar listings. ColdTexting gives you a sign-in form for a tablet at the door, or a QR code on the table, and stores the checkbox wording, the time, the device and the property with each contact.
Portal and website leads import with their consent source mapped from a column or sent in through Zapier. A row without a source does not import, so a purchased list or a scraped spreadsheet never reaches your agents. When a buyer asks how you got their number, the answer is one click away on the contact record.
Drip texting
Drip sequences that keep buyers warm until they answer
A real estate text drip campaign is a short series of spaced texts to one lead that ends as soon as the lead replies. A typical open house drip sends the disclosure packet offer the same day, a note about price or a similar listing a few days later and a last check-in after two weeks.
Each step is checked before it leaves. Quiet hours follow the recipient's time zone, so a lead from El Paso on Mountain time is never texted at 8:30 in the morning just because the office is in Austin. Florida and Oklahoma buyers also get the state cap on sales texts per 24 hours. Templates for each step are on the SMS sequences page.
Team routing
The listing agent gets the reply, the team lead sees the whole board
Leads are assigned by listing, by area or in rotation, and every reply goes to the agent who owns the lead.
Agents text from team numbers, not their personal phones, so the conversation stays with the brokerage when an agent leaves and the history is there when a buyer comes back a year later. The team lead reads every thread in the shared inbox and can step in on a hot lead without taking it away from the agent. The inbox is described in more detail under two way texting.
Contacts, consent and messages sync with HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce, and reach most real estate CRMs through Zapier. The setup is covered in CRM SMS integration.
Templates
Real estate text templates, scored before you save them
Every saved reply runs through the compliance check. Here is how a few common real estate texts score as written, for a Florida recipient.
| Template | Text | Score | Main finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open house thank you | Cedar & Stone Realty: Thanks for visiting 418 Juniper Lane, Jordan. Want the disclosure packet? Reply STOP to opt out | 91 | Brand, context and STOP line present |
| New listing alert | Cedar & Stone Realty: A 3 bed on Alder Court lists Friday at $489,000. Want photos first? Reply STOP to opt out | 85 | Ready, Florida allows 3 sales texts per 24 hours |
| Price drop | PRICE DROP on Juniper, call me now at bit.ly/juniper-now | 35 | No brand, link shortener, no STOP line, all caps |
| Showing reminder | Cedar & Stone Realty: Reminder, your showing at 418 Juniper Lane is Saturday at 10am. Reply C to confirm | 76 | No STOP line, add it to the first text of a thread |
Paste any of your own texts into the SMS compliance checker to see its score and a rewrite before it goes to a buyer or seller.
FAQ
Questions about real estate texting
Yes, when the sign-in form includes clear consent to receive texts from your brokerage. ColdTexting stores that consent with each contact.
Text portal leads who opted in to be contacted by text, and keep the consent source on file. ColdTexting requires it on import.
Replies route to the assigned agent, and the team lead sees every conversation in the shared inbox.
ColdTexting syncs with HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce directly and with many other CRMs through Zapier.
Related pages
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