A real estate virtual assistant is a remote assistant who works on varied real estate-related tasks per the realtor's requirements. Examples of tasks real estate virtual assistants do include follow-up calls, managing social media, replying to leads, creating graphics, listings, research, and other time-consuming tasks.

You can also read the article we wrote that explains everything you need to know about hiring a real estate virtual assistant in the Philippines. 

Here’s a complete list of the types of tasks you can expect a real estate virtual assistant to do:

1. Property Research.
2. Responding to Email and Live Chat Inquires.
3. Creating mailers and flyer designs.
4. Social media post creation.
5. Community management (keeping your Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media communities up to date).
6. Verifying appointments.
7. Scheduling and following up on calendar appointments.
8. Responding to emails.
9. Scheduling and arranging your work diary.
10. Admin and other related activities.
11. Researching listings.
12. Post, design, and maintain listings.

You can hire a real estate virtual assistant between $3.00 and $10.00 per hour, depending on the specific skills and experience that the VA has within the industry.

Suppose you’re hiring a virtual assistant who is new to the real estate industry. In that case, you can expect to pay lower than if you hire somebody with several years of experience working for realtors.

If you can afford to, then it is always best to hire a full-time realtor virtual assistant, and the reason for this is because they are your dedicated staff. The benefit of having a full-time virtual assistant is enormous. 

The main benefit is that they are likely not working multiple jobs and instead solely focused on you and your business. 

Your decision to hire part-time or full-time will depend on you and your business. Only you know if you have the amount of work available that would justify hiring somebody full-time. You should go with a part-time real estate virtual assistant if you don't.

You should look to hire a real estate virtual assistant if you fit into one of the following categories.

1. You are a realtor who works a lot of hours on tasks that can easily be outsourced to somebody else, thus leveraging the benefit of time. This will free you up to do whatever you want with that time, whether that's more family time, hobbies, or more time spent on other areas of your business.
2.  You want to expand your business and increase productivity by leveraging somebody else's skills. 
3. You want to save tens of thousands of dollars per year by replacing a local employee with a realtor virtual assistant in the Philippines. (you'll save on average around 77% in salary costs).
4. You are expanding your team, and it makes sense to hire a real estate virtual assistant in the Philippines, again due to the significant salary savings.
5. You understand the 80/20 principle. The Pareto principle says that you should focus on the 20% of high-value activities while having your virtual assistant do the 80% (remaining tasks). You'll get massive leverage with both time and opportunity by doing this. 

Choose from thousands of experienced and educated real estate virtual assistants on the Virtual Staff outsourcing marketplace.

You decide if you want to hire part-time or full-time. You always remain in control, and you can easily decide on the work schedule, the hourly salary rate, and the tasks and job role.

The steps are as follows:

1. Create your free employer account.
2. Post a job.
3. Message, interview and hire the best applicant.
    

There are many reasons why it makes sense to hire a Filipino real estate virtual assistant. We have listed below the main ones:

The cost savings:

• You can expect to save at least 80% on salary costs by hiring a real estate virtual assistant in the Philippines.

English is an official language of the Philippines:

• Everything from degrees, road signs, restaurant menus, all the way to the official Filipino driving handbook are all written in English.
• The Philippines’ joint official language is English.
• The Philippines is a former American (USA) colony. This is why the Philippines, to this day, is still highly Americanized, despite being located in Asia.

Highly educated workforce:

• Browse through the thousands of virtual staff profiles on our marketplace to best illustrate this. You will see that many real estate virtual assistants in the Philippines are highly educated, many with a minimum of a bachelor’s degree.

 

It means you are going to hire a highly educated, skilled, English-speaking real estate virtual assistant while at the same time saving a lot of money due to the differences in costs of living in the Philippines.

On average, you can expect to save between 60% and 80% on what it would cost you to hire a real estate employee in the USA.