Real estate and construction: software for the listing, the lease and the site record

Which workflows does this sector run on?

The sector covers two operating businesses that share assets and parties but not rhythms. Property businesses run cycles measured in months; construction projects run days measured against a programme.

Property: agencies, portals, landlords and managers

1. Listing and enquiry. A property is described, photographed, verified and published; enquiries become viewings and viewings become offers.
2. Application and tenancy. Applicant checks, the tenancy agreement, deposits, rent schedules and renewals.
3. Maintenance and inspection. A tenant reports a fault, a contractor is sent, the work is inspected and the record closes.

Construction: developers, contractors and subcontractors

4. Requests for information and variations. A question from site, a design answer, a change instruction and its effect on cost and programme.
5. Site diary, snagging and handover. Daily records, defect lists with photos and locations, and the information package the owner receives at completion.

Steps 4 and 5 are approval chains at heart, the pattern described in document and approval workflows.

The failure the sector describes most often in 2026 is the orphaned record: the photo of a defect in a personal phone, the variation agreed on a call, the listing that stays live after the let.

Which regulatory questions belong with your advisers?

These decide data fields, permissions and audit trails. Ask your counsel or compliance lead; a software supplier does not answer them.

The rules differ by country; the table names starting points in two jurisdictions, not a complete list.

Where does AI help in this sector?

The useful cases are narrow and reviewable: drafting a listing description from structured fields for an agent to approve, classifying a maintenance request so it reaches the right contractor, and extracting defect locations and descriptions from site photos and notes into a snagging list. Automated tenant screening or property valuation needs the fair-housing review above before it ships, and a person must own every decision it influences. Netbase works with commercial and open-source AI models chosen per project, with no vendor partnership implied.

What must be settled about data first?

• Address and location model. Properties, units, plots and drawing locations need one identifier scheme before listings, tenancies and defects can be joined.
• Photos as evidence. Time, place and author must be captured with the image, not typed afterwards, or the record will not hold in a dispute.
• Personal data of applicants. Identity and financial documents collected during applications need retention and deletion rules set before the form is built.
• Offline first on site. Basements and new structures have no signal; synchronisation and conflict handling are core scope.
• Access by party. A subcontractor, a tenant and an owner each see a different slice of the same record.

Netbase security practices include secure code review and version control, role-based access control, MFA for admin dashboards, contributors under NDA, and NDAs and DPAs on request. On a site-facing app, that role model is what stops one subcontractor from seeing another's defects, photos or commercial correspondence.

What delivery record exists, and what does not?

Netbase has delivered projects for real estate clients who are not named. No such project is described in the claim register, so this page publishes no real estate client, figure or platform, and it builds no capability argument on that statement. No construction project is registered at all.

The adjacent record is a directory, not a property platform. For Dey Page, Netbase built a multi-state business directory in Nigeria launching in one state and designed to scale to all 36, with state, city and category pages, search filters, reviews, a location-confirmed badge verified in the field with geotagged photos and a head-office review queue, and featured-listing and badge subscriptions, on a 12-week web and mobile plan. The multi-state business directory record shows listing verification and field evidence capture that a property portal also needs; it claims no public launch, app-store availability or user numbers. The domain review for this page was carried out by David Nguyen (CEO) acting as domain owner, which is not a legal or surveying review. Evidence labels are explained on the methodology page.