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ACT! for Real Estate enables you to access relationship details instantly to impress your clients with your knowledge about their interests; stay top-of-mind by executing timely, personalized follow-up communication; and make every client a priority by automating activities and setting appointment reminders!

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Why Choose ACT! for Real Estate?

• Get a competitive edge in today’s market with world-class contact and property sales management capabilities using tools designed for a real estate professional.
• Impress clients with your memory of their unique buying criteria and listing details, all stored and quickly recalled in ACT! for Real Estate.
• Stay top-of-mind as the quickest, smartest, and most savvy agent in your market by executing timely and consistent follow-up with personalized, property-specific flyers and client communications.
• Make every client a top priority by setting up property-related activity series and reminders so you never forget a call and are never late for a showing or signing. Even send clients reminders about your appointments with them.
• Save time and money with intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces and a low one-time license fee, rather than a monthly subscription.

Should you consider ACT! by Sage Premium for Real Estate 11?

In addition to ACT! for Real Estate 11, ACT! Premium for Real Estate 11 is also available. ACT! Premium for Real Estate is ideal for agent teams¹ to share and assign activity, opportunity, and contact data between agents and other specialists who are working together. If you have larger workgroups and teams of real estate professionals and need the additional security features and functionality, ACT! Premium for Real Estate is the choice for you.

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ACT! for Real Estate is designed specifically for residential real estate professionals and delivers the contact and customer management capabilities included with ACT! by Sage, plus industry-specific functionality. You can track buyer, seller, and property information with an industry-specific layout; manage real estate-related activities; better communicate with buyers and sellers using property flyers and letter templates; access your MLS homepage within ACT! for Real Estate, and so much more.

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Why Upgrade to ACT! for Real Estate?

• Save time: No time to customize your version of ACT! with all the fields and tools specific to a real estate business? We’ve done the work for you so you can leverage the power of ACT! combined with layouts and tools designed for real estate, and further customize any of these tools to your exact needs.
• Communicate better: Wow your clients with personalized letters and flyers with property details – already preformatted with real estate-oriented language and designs.
• Enjoy a one-stop shop: Work seamlessly with your MLS homepage¹ through direct access from ACT! for Real Estate, even associate MLS numbers with contact records and activities.
• Work smarter: Manage property-related activities and opportunities more efficiently with industry-specific tools. Report on your progress and performance with Dashboards and reports designed specifically for real estate.

Download the ACT! for Real Estate 11 Migration Brief

When you migrate from ACT! to ACT! for Real Estate, you’ll preserve your existing ACT! data and retain any ACT! layouts you’ve customized, and benefit from the great real estate-specific functionality in ACT! for Real Estate.

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ACT! for Real Estate 11 is packed with powerful new features and significant enhancements to areas of the product you use every day. New features and enhancements include the ability to establish relationships between contacts, tighter integration with Microsoft® Outlook®, better search capabilities, database automation, and more! These improvements enable you to work more effectively, be more productive, and better serve your clients.

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When you upgrade to ACT! for Real Estate 11, you’ll be able to:

• Leverage existing relationships between your clients: With the new Related Contacts feature you can connect contacts to one another and then define the nature of that relationship, plus enter any additional details about the relationship. For instance, you can define relationships between buyers, mortgage brokers, title agents, and home inspectors. So next time you speak with your buyer, you can quickly recall the details of your recent conversation with the home inspector.
• Track and organize e-mails and your schedule in ACT!: New and improved Outlook® integration features give you the flexibility to track and organize e-mails in ACT! en masse or on a case-by-case basis. Or you can automate these functions so you can set them once and forget about them. Calendar integration features enable you to create ACT! activities from Outlook for tracking important action items received via e-mail, and copy your ACT! and Outlook calendars automatically or with just one click.
• Find the exact details you need: Lookups and search functionality have been streamlined, helping you find the particular client information you need quickly, in one lookup-friendly place. Build the most basic or complex searches using a tool that has been simplified and enhanced. And easily recall recent lookups to save time in your day.
• See relevant snapshots of your schedule: Improvements to calendar printing and viewing make it easy for you to get relevant snapshots of your schedule and give you a beat on your scheduled activities at-a-glance.
• Get more done with usability enhancements to features you use every day: Enhancements include improved Dashboard drill-down functionality, a “Yesterday” filter on Task and Opportunity List views, a history icon on the standard ACT! toolbar, and additional options for alarm reminders.
• Save time with streamlined installation and improved database maintenance: The ACT! installation experience has been streamlined, requiring fewer clicks to get started. And now ACT! automatically handles periodic database maintenance tasks, like database backups and maintenance, with options for tailoring maintenance to fit your needs. Additional enhancements include automatic scheduling, a streamlined ACT! sync progress bar, and more.

Download the ACT! for Real Estate 11 What’s New Datasheet

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When migrating from a Premium version of ACT! to a non-premium version of ACT!, you must do the following:

• Uninstall the version of Microsoft® SQLServer® that came with your ACT! Premium purchase.
• Migrate your ACT! Premium database to an ACT! database.