Hire an offshore sales assistant for your Australian real estate agency
An offshore real estate sales assistant handles the recurring admin behind every listing and sale, buyer enquiries, agent diary, marketing prep, CRM hygiene, and contract admin. Through Lite-Force, they're employed properly via an EOR structure with payroll, compliance, and HR support included. Most hires are live within 2-4 weeks.
A day in the life of an offshore real estate sales assistant.
Typical responsibilities:
- Buyer enquiry response: nitial enquiries from realestate.com.au, Domain, and direct
- Agent diary management: nspections, appointments, listing presentations
- Listing prep: reparing listings for CRM, portals, and marketing campaigns
- OFI scheduling and follow-up: ooking open homes, post-inspection feedback
- Buyer database management: apturing requirements, matching listings to buyers
- Marketing coordination: oordinating photography, copy, signage, brochures
- Contract admin: reparing sale contracts and coordinating signing logistics
- Vendor reporting: eekly campaign reports for sellers
Why real estate sales support works well offshore.
Sales admin is repeatable and high-volume.
Buyer enquiries, inspection bookings, and CRM updates follow consistent patterns. Once your offshore assistant knows your area and process, they handle volume cleanly.
Real estate tech is fully cloud-based.
Rex, AgentBox, VaultRE, MyDesktop, plus portal management (realestate.com.au, Domain, RealRE), all browser-based.
Timezone overlap covers your trading day.
Philippines hours align with Australian business hours. Buyer enquiries get responded to within minutes; agent diary changes happen in real time.
Lets agents sell, not admin.
Agents make commission on closed deals, every hour on admin is an opportunity cost. Offshore sales support shifts the balance dramatically.
What does a real estate sales assistant cost locally vs offshore?
Indicative comparison based on typical Australian salary ranges for this role.
| Local Australian hire | Lite-Force offshore | |
|---|---|---|
| Base cost | $60,000-$80,000/yr | Confirmed on call |
| Super (11.5%) | $6,900-$9,200 | Included |
| Payroll tax (~5%) | $3,000-$4,000 | Included |
| Leave loading | $2,000-$3,000 | Included |
| Recruitment | $8,000-$12,000 | Included |
| Estimated annual total | $79,900-$108,200 | Get a specific quote |
Indicative comparison based on typical Australian salary ranges for real estate sales assistant base salaries (sources: SEEK Real Estate Sales Assistant Sydney, Indeed AU, Placed Australia 2025, Fair Work Real Estate Award MA000106). Local role often includes commission/bonus on top of base; total comp can reach $90-110k. Lite-Force pricing confirmed on a per-role basis during your discovery call.
What you get with a Lite-Force real estate sales assistant.
- Full sourcing, screening, and shortlisting
- EOR employment contract structured for local compliance
- Monthly payroll and statutory contributions
- Leave tracking and management
- HR support and regular check-ins
- Replacement commitment within initial period
- 3-7 years real estate sales support or property admin experience
- Strong English (written and verbal, heavy buyer and vendor comms)
- Familiar with at least one CRM (Rex, AgentBox, VaultRE) and portal management
- Understands Australian residential sales process and standard contract types
- Filipino or Southeast Asian, timezone-aligned with Australia
Three steps to your offshore sales assistant.
Book a discovery call
Tell us about your agency, market area, CRM, and current admin pressure points.
We source and shortlist
You review candidates with relevant CRM and AU market experience, interview your favourites.
They start
Employment, payroll, and onboarding handled. You manage the work.
Frequently asked questions.
No, and they don't need to. Offshore sales assistants do admin, marketing prep, and buyer coordination. Licensed activities (signed advice, formal property representation, salesperson duties) remain with your in-office licensed agents.
Common: Rex, AgentBox, VaultRE, MyDesktop, Console, REX Software, Eagle. Specific CRM requirements confirmed during scoping.
Yes for routine comms, buyer enquiry response, inspection bookings, vendor campaign updates. For listing presentations, contract signing, and price negotiations, those remain with your agents.
Standard practice, under your supervision and CRM access controls, NDA, no local data storage. Vendor reports prepared and sent under your principal's name.
Replacement commitment within the initial engagement period. If accuracy or fit isn't right, we source again at no additional placement cost. Details confirmed in your service agreement.