CASAFARI Connect: easily define and negotiate real estate commissions for more and better deals
Integrated into CASAFARI’s Property Sourcing, CASAFARI Connect lets buyer and seller estate agents propose, negotiate and track real estate commission splits and partnership requests directly inside the platform. By broadening portfolio exposure and simplifying collaboration, estate agents close shared deals faster across more than 650 real estate brands without leaving CASAFARI.
So far, there are around 650 brands using CASAFARI Connect in Portugal, Spain, Italy and France, a number that keeps growing. Our tool has become part of their daily work: there are companies that have proposed more than 150 partnerships with other agencies already.
We are talking about major real estate companies, such as REMAX, Century 21, Keller Williams, Sotheby’s, Zome and many more.
And now CASAFARI Connect is even better. Let’s see how this launch enables even more transactions and allows you to negotiate better divisions of real estate commissions.
What’s new: negotiating real estate commissions made easy and effortless management of partnerships
Negotiate the split of commissions inside the platform
Forget about exchanging emails to agree on values: now the entire negotiation is made inside CASAFARI Connect.
Buyer agents can propose a split when requesting a partnership on a real estate deal. And, as for the seller agents, they get to agree with the suggested split or propose your own before the deal is sealed.
A handshake to generate more real estate deals: meet CASAFARI Connect
Monitor all your requests for a real estate deal
Now you have a whole section inside our platform to check on sent and received requests for partnerships. Check the conditions of the split of real estate commissions, see what was accepted or rejected. Focus all your partnership efforts in one single place.
Who’s CASAFARI Connect for now?
For now, CASAFARI Connect is a powerful tool for estate agents. It solves multiple needs at once, enabling more business and pushing the revenues to increase, both when they’re acting as buyers or sellers on a real estate deal.
But this product doesn’t end there: CASAFARI Connect is being constantly updated to become something that will help every real estate professional willing to buy or sell properties faster, in a fair way and under beneficial conditions (more on that later in this article).
Seller agents
These agents get more exposure for their property portfolio and are able to share the properties they have with other buyer agents.
Buyer agents
They can easily find a broad range of properties, all from agencies that are willing to negotiate real estate commissions, for when their client need a kind of property that’s missing in their portfolio.
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CASAFARI Connect also helps estate agents that are:
- Representing investors that wish to acquire new assets for their portfolio,
- Representing clients that wish to buy properties in a city that the agent doesn’t work in, since now you can partner in deals with agencies from other markets (different countries, cities, locations),
- Looking for a type of property they don’t own in their portfolio for a client.
Summing up, every estate agent can benefit from expanding their business opportunities with the help of CASAFARI Connect.
Step-by-step: how to use the new CASAFARI Connect
As a buyer agent
- For you to propose a partnership on a real estate deal inside CASAFARI you can either:
- Click on the “handshake” button in the Property Sourcing,
- Click on the “handshake button in your Favourites folder,
- Click on the “connect” button in the property page.
- A popup will open, showing you a list of real estate agencies that are mediating the property you are interested in. Select one of the companies listed to send your partnership proposal.
- See whether the commission rules that you are used to working with match the seller’s rules or not. The popup will also show the calculated value for real estate commissions.
- If the rules don’t match, you can either accept the seller’s proposal or try to negotiate the real estate commissions, suggesting a new option. Any suggested rules will be applied only for this request.
- On the menu to your left, you are able to click on the handshake button to see all the requests you’ve sent and the answers received to each of them.
As a seller agent
All requests for a partnering on a real estate deal can be found with a simple click on the handshake icon, located on the menu to the left, inside CASAFARI. This area of our platform will show you:
- All the requests you received,
- Requests sorted by status (received, sent, accepted, denied),
- The conditions proposed for each request,
- Answers from buyer agents.
Inside this section, you will also be able to negotiate the split of real estate commissions by sending your suggestion, accept or deny a proposed transaction.
With CASAFARI Connect you no longer need to have every possible kind of property on your portfolio to attend clients with different needs. Find an agency that would be the perfect fit for a deal, agree on a split for real estate commissions and boost your business with our tool.
The next steps for CASAFARI Connect: where are we headed?
First of all, soon enough you will be able to filter on our Property Sourcing to see on your search solely properties available for partnerships on CASAFARI Connect. Anything that shows up in the results will be a real estate deal waiting for you, which makes it much easier for you to go straight into business.
And that’s not all.
We are also going to make CASAFARI Connect available for private investors, who will be able to find more interesting properties inside our Property Sourcing and directly connect with the estate agents and agencies in charge of selling them.
With access to the most complete real estate database across 16 countries (CASAFARI is entering the United States now, in selected states, for commercial real estate only, through Claro AI) globally and this clean path to finding better opportunities, property investors will be able to purchase properties faster and make smarter investment decisions. As for estate agents, they will be approached by even more clients, closing faster deals and increasing their commissions in a lesser amount of time. Once again, a win-win situation.
One thing we can promise: the future of real estate transactions is changing, and this is just the beginning of CASAFARI Connect’s journey.
Frequently asked questions
How do you know which agencies share commissions?
Properties open to a shared deal display the handshake icon inside Property Sourcing or your Favourites folder. Alternatively, you can look for the Connect button on the property page. Clicking this button opens a popup listing all real estate agencies willing to partner on a deal for that property.
Is it possible to negotiate different conditions relating to a deal?
Every time an estate agent sends or receives a request for a shared deal on CASAFARI Connect, they can negotiate the commission split directly in the platform. Each user can accept the proposed conditions, decline them, or suggest new terms for that specific request.
Can I select which properties from my portfolio I wish to share?
Estate agents can decline partnership requests for any property they do not wish to share on a deal. Partnership managers and administrators can also configure which portfolio properties are made available for CASAFARI Connect within their account settings.
How can I set up commissions in CASAFARI Connect?
Default commission rules and an equal split between parties are applied automatically across all account users when a company joins CASAFARI Connect. Company administrators can modify these general rules in company settings; learn more about setting your commission rules for shared deals. Agents can also negotiate custom terms individually for any specific deal when sending or receiving a request.
Can I send a partnership request to an agency in another country even if I don’t usually work in this market?
You can share a deal with any agency using CASAFARI Connect across Portugal, Spain, France, Italy or Germany. To do so, the relevant location must be included in your active CASAFARI subscription. Find out how to send a partnership request to an agency in another country directly through the platform.