Services · Mobile app development · Real estate apps
Real estate app development Riyadh, for brokerages, developers and property marketing firms selling and leasing homes, offices and land across the capital. Buyers and tenants search by district and metro line, book viewings and reserve off plan units, while your agents receive every enquiry on their phones with the source attached. Our Riyadh team builds it in Arabic first with English alongside, and designs every listing screen around REGA brokerage and advertising rules from the start.
Riyadh moves fast and its rules move with it. Since the rent freeze inside the city's urban boundary took effect, a leasing listing has to agree with the last rent registered on Ejar. An app that ignores that detail creates complaints. One that builds it in protects your licence, your reputation and your agents' time.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the app can include
Riyadh is a city of long drives and big districts. A buyer working near King Abdullah Financial District does not want to cross the city for a villa that turns out to face the wrong way. Tenants compare Al Malqa with Al Narjis by commute, schools and rent, and they expect the app to answer those questions before they call anyone.
On the business side, brokerages in the capital handle heavy enquiry volumes from portals, social ads and walk ins, and many developers now launch off plan phases in the north and east of the city. The features below are the ones we see Riyadh sales and leasing teams use every day. We pick the set that fits your business, build the core first, and leave room for the rest. Maintenance, service charges and resident services stay out of scope here; those belong in a separate property management or community app.
Map search across Riyadh districts with filters for nearby metro stations, main roads such as King Fahd Road and the Northern Ring Road, schools and mosques. Saved searches alert buyers when a matching villa, apartment or floor appears, so they return to your app instead of a general portal.
Buyers shortlist by commute and district before they ever pick up the phone.
Agents cannot publish a listing until the required REGA advertising details are entered, and the broker's FAL licence number is shown on the listing as the rules require. Your compliance lead sees which ads are missing information and which agents publish them, before a supervisor finds it first.
Every live advert carries the licence details it needs.
For units inside Riyadh's urban boundary, the listing form asks for the last registered rent and flags any asking price above it, in line with the current freeze. Units that have never been leased are marked so the first rent can be agreed freely. Signed tenancies then move to Ejar for registration.
Leasing staff stop advertising rents they cannot legally charge.
For developers selling a new compound or tower in north Riyadh, an interactive unit grid shows availability by floor, type and view, with brochures and payment plan descriptions. Reservations are held for a set time, and the Wafi licence reference is displayed on the project page so buyers know the sale is authorised.
Launch day enquiries become tracked reservations, not lost calls.
Buyers pick a slot from the agent's live calendar. The app groups viewings by area, so an agent showing three villas in Hittin is not booked into Al Rimal straight afterwards, and sends reminders before evening appointments, when most Riyadh families view after work. Agents can block personal time so evening slots are never double booked.
Agents fit more viewings into a day with less driving.
Every enquiry from the app, your website, portals and ads lands in one queue, tagged with its source and the listing it came from. Rules assign it by district, language or property type, and managers see who has not replied, which matters when a lead goes cold within a day.
No enquiry sits unanswered in someone's personal inbox.
Before an agent markets a property, the owner signs the brokerage agreement inside the app, and its reference is stored against the listing. Expiry dates trigger reminders, so mandates are renewed or withdrawn on time. Your managers can open any listing and see who authorised it, when, and on what terms, without searching through paper files. Expired mandates take the listing offline until renewed.
Each advert can be traced to a signed mandate.
Serious buyers and tenants confirm their identity through Nafath before reserving a unit or requesting a contract. That gives your brokerage verified names for the brokerage agreement and Ejar paperwork, and filters out time wasting enquiries without making casual browsers register. Verification status is shown on the lead card for agents.
Agents spend time on verified, ready buyers.
Companies moving staff to Riyadh, including those opening regional headquarters in the capital, can submit a brief for several families at once. Your relocation agent shares shortlists, tracks which employees viewed what, and keeps the employer's HR contact updated in one thread. Employers can approve shortlisted units without a separate email chain.
Bulk leasing requests handled as one organised deal.
A staff app for photographing units, recording measurements, updating status after a viewing and logging offers on the spot. Listings stay current because the person standing in the property can change them, rather than waiting for someone in the office. Photos are tagged by room automatically from the agent's selection.
Stock that is sold or let comes off the app the same day.
Who this is for
A brokerage of six agents in Al Olaya and a developer launching hundreds of units in the north have very different needs. What they share is the rulebook: FAL licensing, REGA advertising requirements, Ejar for leases and Wafi for off plan sales. We start from your sales model and your licences, then design the app around both. Because part of our team is based in Riyadh, discovery workshops and design reviews can happen in person at your office.
Some clients come to us for property listing app development Riyadh firms can run themselves; others want a full sales platform. Both start the same way, with a short written scope.
Listings live in a shared sheet, leads arrive on agents' personal WhatsApp, and nobody knows which adverts carry the right licence details. We build a branded app with an admin panel that becomes the single record of stock, enquiries and agents. The first release usually covers listing publishing, search and lead routing, because those three solve most of the daily confusion. Off plan and corporate features can follow once your agents rely on the basics. Managers finally see who is handling which client.
Start with the workflow your agents repeat fifty times a day.
Projects around Al Narjis, Al Yasmin and the newer northern districts often sell in phases. Your app needs a unit inventory that updates in real time, a reservation flow with a clear hold period, project progress updates and a direct line to your sales centre. We connect it to the systems that track contracts so sales and finance see the same numbers. Interest registered before launch turns into a priority list for your sales centre on the first day. Sales staff see the same inventory.
Firms that place relocating professionals in apartments and villas need shortlists, viewing logistics and employer reporting more than a public search screen. We design a leasing app around requests, shortlists and contract readiness, with Ejar steps clearly marked and rent checks built in for units inside the Riyadh freeze. Employers receive a clear summary of every family's progress without chasing your team. Corporate renewals are tracked too, so your team contacts the employer before leases end and keeps the account for another year.
Property marketing firms with a FAL marketing licence need campaign landing screens, lead capture and transparent reporting for the owners they represent. We build the app so each owner sees enquiries and viewings for their own listings, while your team manages advertising licences and response times across the portfolio. Owners in the capital often compare agencies by how quickly enquiries are answered, and the report makes that visible. Each campaign's leads are tagged so you can show owners what their marketing produced.
How we work together
Most brokerages start with a fixed scope first release covering search, listings and lead handling, then keep a monthly retainer for new features and regulatory updates, which arrive often in this market. Developers with several projects in the pipeline sometimes prefer a dedicated team that stays with the product across launches. Our team of 80+ works across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, so your Riyadh contacts can meet you while engineering capacity scales behind them. Across all three models, we have delivered 200+ projects for clients in the UAE and the US, and the same delivery habits apply here.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We choose the stack around your team and your systems: native or cross platform mobile apps, a web admin panel, map services that handle Arabic district names, and cloud hosting with data location agreed in line with PDPL. Listing photos are compressed for mobile data, search stays quick on large stock, and everything is documented so another developer could take it over.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, integrations and how quickly decisions are made on your side.
A focused first release with search, listings, viewings and lead routing is far quicker than a platform that also handles off plan inventory, corporate leasing and several portal integrations. We agree the scope in discovery and then write down the delivery plan before design starts. Approvals from your compliance team and access to existing systems usually affect timing more than the coding does, so we plan those early. A pilot with one team first often shortens the overall rollout.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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