MessageCustomersRealty.com
Realty.comReal estate

Lead routing across 700 partner agents with 60-second handoffs.

Realty.

62 staff, 1.4M monthly visitorsReal estate · Consumer marketplace
9,000
Monthly leads handled
60 seconds
Average lead-to-agent handoff
+41%
Lead-to-tour conversion
0
Tools dropped between Realty and partner agents
We capture 9,000 leads a month. Before Message, half of them went cold because our agents could not get to them fast enough. Now the inbox routes by ZIP, intent, and price band in under a minute.
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Aaron Mitchell
VP of operations, Realty.com
The problem

Before Message.

Realty.com matches buyers and sellers to local agents. Leads come in by chat, phone, and form, and need to land with the right partner agent in seconds. Their old setup relied on a manual triage queue, which buckled at 200 leads a day.

The switches

4 things that changed.

Side by side, what the old stack did and what Message does instead.

Before
Drift + manual round-robin
After
Message inbox with smart routing by ZIP and intent
Before
10 minute average handoff
After
60 second average handoff
Before
27% leads going cold
After
5% leads going cold
Before
Separate phone vendor for outbound
After
Outbound calls in the same inbox
The story

How Realty.com got here.

01

Routing that respected the geography

Realty.com partners with 700 agents across 38 states. The first version of routing in Message was a single rule: ZIP code prefix. Within a week they layered intent (buyer vs seller), price band, and bilingual-Spanish support. The whole rules engine lives in the Message dashboard, not a spreadsheet.

02

Phone in the same queue

Realty's outbound calls (agent follow-ups) and inbound calls (buyer inquiries) live in the same inbox as the chat. An agent on a call can see the same buyer's prior chat history without a tab switch. Aaron calls it 'the screen our team finally stopped complaining about.'

03

AI for the boring parts

Message AI handles the FAQs (commission, financing, neighborhood data) so partner agents only see the leads worth their time. AI deflection on tier-1 questions is 68 percent. Partner agents report 41 percent more lead-to-tour conversion in the leads they do get.

04

Going dark on a Saturday

When Realty.com's old Drift instance went down for 4 hours on a Saturday in March, they lost 312 leads. With Message, their last outage attributable to support tooling was zero seconds in 2026. The team measures it.

In the build

The stack they run.

Products on the Message platform plus the integrations they connected.

Message products
Unified inboxLive chatPhoneTickets
Connected integrations
SalesforceTwilio (port-in)Calendly
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