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Property app development Birmingham, for estate agents, lettings teams and housebuilders selling and renting homes across the city. We build the buyer and renter app, the negotiator app your team uses on viewings, and the admin dashboard behind both. Listings carry the material information Trading Standards expects, viewings book themselves, offers and applications are logged, and anti money laundering checks run before a sale is agreed rather than after.
Birmingham agents sell Victorian terraces in Moseley, canal side flats in the Jewellery Quarter, student houses in Selly Oak and family homes in Sutton Coldfield, often from the same office. One app has to present all of them honestly and route every enquiry to the right negotiator.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What a Birmingham property app can do
A buyer searching Birmingham is rarely just searching a postcode. They want a short walk to Snow Hill or New Street, a school catchment in Harborne, or a flat near the Curzon Street HS2 works before prices move. Renters compare city centre build to rent blocks against shared houses near the University of Birmingham. A good property app reflects those choices in its filters and its listing pages, then hands each serious enquiry to your team with the context already attached. These are the parts we usually build for agencies here, and the order shifts depending on whether you are mostly a sales, lettings or new homes business. Every piece connects to the CRM you already run, so negotiators are not copying details between systems at the end of a long day of viewings.
Search by Birmingham area names people actually use, such as Digbeth, Kings Heath or Edgbaston, alongside travel time to New Street, Snow Hill or Moor Street stations. Saved searches alert applicants the moment a matching home goes live, before it reaches every portal. Commuters heading to London can filter by travel time on the line to Euston too.
Applicants find homes in the parts of the city they really want.
A listing builder that will not publish until price or rent, council tax band and tenure are filled in, with utilities, broadband, parking and any flood or building safety notes one tap away, following the National Trading Standards guidance. Part C items, such as mining history or restrictions on the title, are prompted when your negotiator ticks that they apply.
Listings that answer the questions a buyer would otherwise phone about.
Birmingham City Council runs selective licensing across 25 wards. The app stores the licence or HMO licence reference against each rental and warns your team when a let in a covered ward is missing one. Gas safety, electrical and EPC dates sit in the same record, so the listing shows a rental is ready to let.
No rental goes live in a licensed ward without its paperwork recorded.
Applicants pick a viewing slot, answer a few qualifying questions and get reminders. Negotiators see the day as a route across the city, with keys, access notes and vendor preferences on each stop. Viewing feedback is captured on the doorstep and sent to the vendor or landlord the same evening.
Fewer no shows and less driving between Erdington and Selly Oak.
Shared houses near the University of Birmingham and Aston University let to groups, not individuals. Lead tenants invite housemates, each completes their own details and guarantor information, and your team sees one group application with a clear status. Holding deposits are taken in the app within the legal limit.
Group lets agreed without chasing five students by email.
Homeowners request a market appraisal by postcode, choose a time and upload a few photos first. Once instructed, vendors see viewing feedback, listing views and enquiry numbers for their home, so the weekly update call becomes a conversation about price rather than a report. Requests go to the valuer covering that postcode.
More instructions booked straight from the app, and vendors who feel informed.
Buyers submit offers with their position, chain and proof of funds. Vendors see every offer in the app and accept in writing, and the memorandum of sale is drafted from the agreed details. Rejected and withdrawn offers stay on record, which helps if a seller later questions how bids were handled.
A clear audit trail for every offer put to a seller.
Digital identity verification and source of funds questions for both buyer and seller, run through a certified identity provider, with results stored for the period HMRC supervision requires. Your team sees each party's status at a glance, and a sale cannot move to solicitors until both have passed or been reviewed by your nominated officer.
Checks complete before solicitors are instructed, not weeks later.
Searches, survey, mortgage offer and exchange shown as plain stages for buyers and sellers, with your progressor updating one record instead of answering the same call several times a week. Buyers and sellers get a notification whenever a stage moves, and your progressor sees which sales in the city have stalled longest.
Fewer chasing calls and fewer sales that fall through quietly.
Developers building around Smithfield, Digbeth or the Langley development in Sutton Coldfield can show plots, release phases and take reservations, with specifications and New Homes Quality Code information attached. Buyers see their plot's build stage and receive their documents in one place, while your sales team updates availability once for the app, website and marketing suite.
Off plan buyers reserve with the right documents in hand.
Who this is for
Birmingham's property market is several markets at once: a growing city centre rental scene, suburbs with strong family demand, a large student sector and regeneration schemes bringing new homes to the edges of the core. The right app depends on which of these pays your bills. Here are the four situations we hear most often from agencies in the city, and what we would build first for each. If you sit across two of them, we plan a shared core and switch features on for each part of the business.
If much of your rent roll sits in wards under Birmingham's selective licensing, compliance is part of marketing. We build a lettings app where the licence reference, gas and electrical certificates and the EPC sit on the listing record, applicants apply and pass Right to Rent checks online, and nothing is published until the file is complete. Advertised rents are fixed, in line with the ban on rental bidding. Landlords get their own login to approve tenants and see when each certificate is due for renewal.
Best when lettings are most of the business.
Agencies with branches in places like Harborne, Kings Heath and Sutton Coldfield need one app that still feels local. Each branch keeps its own listings, valuers and phone line, while buyers search the whole city. Valuation requests route to the branch that covers the postcode, and vendors log in to see feedback from every viewing. Buyers moving out from city centre flats to family homes often start with a valuation on their current place, so we link the sale and the purchase search in one account.
One brand, several local teams.
City centre schemes in Digbeth, the Jewellery Quarter and around Snow Hill lease or sell many units at once. We build virtual tours, unit availability by floor, reservation flows and move in scheduling, so a leasing team can handle a launch without spreadsheets. Leasing staff can see which units have been viewed, held and applied for, and residents moving from elsewhere in the UK can complete referencing before they arrive in Birmingham. Viewings can be booked straight into the leasing team's diary.
Built around releases rather than single listings.
Some Birmingham agents already have an app that only mirrors their website. We keep the brand and rebuild the inside so it books viewings, takes offers, runs AML checks and syncs with your CRM, which gives applicants a reason to install it. We reuse your existing store listing so ratings and installs carry over to the new version. Applicants who installed the old app are kept, and we import their saved searches where the data allows, so the relaunch does not start from zero.
How we work together
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. We have no Birmingham office. We work with agencies in the city remotely, and discovery, design reviews and demos all happen by video call with screens shared. Agency directors join the key reviews, and negotiators test builds on real viewings. You get a named project lead, a written scope and a staging app you can try on your own phone. As property mobile app developers we stay involved after launch for fixes and new releases if you want us to.
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 pick native or cross platform tools to suit your budget and your in house skills, and integrate with the agency CRM, identity checks and portal feeds you already pay for rather than replacing them. Personal data is handled under UK GDPR, and marketing messages respect PECR consent rules.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many integrations the first release needs.
A search, listing and viewing app connected to one CRM is a smaller build than an app that also runs AML checks, offers, sales progression and new homes reservations. We agree the first release in discovery, write down the stages and only then set dates. Most of the time goes into integration with your CRM and identity provider and testing with your negotiators, not the screens themselves. If you have a seasonal deadline, such as the student letting rush, tell us early and we will shape the first release around it.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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