Real Estate / Customer Service Officer
Your Team, Your Way
Marketing & customer serviceDedicated, not shared

Customer Service Officer

Handle tenant and owner enquiries across the portfolio — the first voice they hear, backed by accurate records.

This role · right now Screenshot Monitor
On shift · handling tenant enquiry #TEN-90
Active today6h 50m of 8h
CRM
42%
Property platform
28%
Phone/email
18%
Microsoft 365
12%
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Illustrative sample — actual report via screenshotmonitor.com
Stage 01 · Leasing

Leasing & Sales

Manage listings, applications and sales support.

Stage 02 · Management

Property Management

Administer tenancies and portfolio records.

Stage 03 · Maintenance

Maintenance

Coordinate repair requests and contractor scheduling.

Stage 04 · Trust Accounts

Trust Accounting

Prepare rent processing and trust account records.

Stage 05 · Engagement

Marketing & Customer Service (Customer service)

Handle tenant/owner communication and portfolio marketing.

Portfolio cycle shown left to right — this role's stage is highlighted above.
Why Virtual Team

Five reasons clients stay past the first hire

Dedicated

One resource, only yours

No shared queue, no rotating cast. Your dedicated resource works exclusively for you and stays.

Leadership

25 years of Australian market experience

Founder Rohit Sahdev's 25 years in the Australian market, including senior leadership at Telstra, shape how every dedicated team is managed.

Transparent

You always know what your team is doing

Every dedicated resource works behind Screenshot Monitor — auditable activity and reporting, not a black box.

Flexible

No more "That's not my job."

Your dedicated outsourced resource adapts to what your business needs, takes ownership and grows their career by stepping up to new challenges.

Built for now

Capacity without the hiring squeeze

Skilled and reliable operational talent is harder to hire locally right now. A dedicated resource adds capacity without adding to that pressure.

The outcome this role is built for

Faster first-contact resolution and calmer tenants and owners — because most queries get answered on the first call using accurate portfolio data.

Role scope

What this role owns day to day

Core responsibilities

  • Answer inbound tenant and owner enquiries
  • Provide accurate updates using portfolio systems
  • Resolve simple queries directly; escalate complex cases cleanly
  • Log all interactions accurately in the CRM

Works inside

CRMProperty platformsPhone/email

Reported on weekly

First responseSpeed of initial reply
Resolution timeTime to resolve enquiries
CSATTenant/owner satisfaction
Follow-up completionAgreed follow-ups completed on time
Flexibility

Works your hours. Picks up the work.

Australian business hours

Aligned to your primary time zone and holiday calendar for day-to-day coverage.

9am–5pm style coverage, matched to your roster

Extended coverage

Stretch shift start/end times around inspection days and open-home weekends.

Early-start or late-finish shifts, by agreement

Weekend coverage

Dedicated coverage for weekend enquiries and urgent maintenance triage.

Rostered weekend coverage, by agreement

What "no that's not my job" looks like in practice: an enquiry spans maintenance, rent and a lease question all at once — it still gets a complete answer instead of being passed between people.

What stays with your authorised staff

Uses approved scripts and authority limits; lease negotiation and binding commitments remain with authorised staff.

Why this role is hard to scale locally

The market backdrop for customer service hires

3.3% wage growth

Australian wage growth over the year to the March quarter 2026 (3.2% in the private sector), raising the cost of hiring locally.

Source: ABS Wage Price Index, March quarter 2026
329,500 vacancies

job vacancies were recorded across Australia in May 2026 — 293,800 of them in the private sector.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, May 2026
46% rising costs

of Australian businesses reported rising operating expenses in June 2026 — 65% citing overheads, 40% citing staffing costs.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2026

Statistics checked in July 2026 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and ServiceNow. See our Challenges We Solve page for full sourcing and context.

Not exclusive to real estate

The same skillset, wherever a portfolio needs managing

Strip away the property-specific platforms and this role is a recognisable shape: manage a portfolio of cases, keep records current, and communicate proactively.

Common today

Doing this in-house with stretched staff, or paying a third party

  • Tenant/owner queries compete with other priorities
  • Response times slip during busy periods
  • Interaction records are inconsistent
The alternative

A dedicated customer service officer, outsourced to us

  • One resource whose only job is portfolio enquiries
  • Reports to your own office manager, not a third party
  • Same Screenshot Monitor transparency, direct to you
Where this shape of role also fits

Recruitment & Staffing

Candidate care and status communication is this same role under a different title.

ATS/CRM

Digital Marketing & Agencies

Listing marketing production mirrors campaign and content production closely.

Design tools · CMS

Financial Services & Insurance

Policyholder communication shares the same regular-update cadence.

CRM

Retail & E-commerce

Customer service on orders and accounts follows an identical first-response discipline.

Helpdesk · CRM
Transparent reporting, on this role too
Screenshot Monitor active
Daily
Activity & app-usage log
Weekly
Reviewed with your team lead

No guessing what this role worked on. Full sample report on the Real Estate page →

How it works

Discovery, role design, and a candidate you interview yourself.

You define outcomes, tools and work hours. We source, screen and put forward candidates you interview and approve. Once live, your resource follows your systems, escalation model and reporting cadence — reviewed together on a schedule you set.

See the full onboarding model
Common questions

Questions about hiring a dedicated Customer Service Officer

Cost depends on experience level, working hours and specific responsibilities. Tell us your requirements and we'll put together a proposal for a dedicated Customer Service Officer.
Yes — working hours are agreed during setup to align with your operational needs, whether that's standard Australian business hours or extended coverage.
A dedicated Customer Service Officer works exclusively for your business, inside your own systems, reporting to your nominated manager — not a shared resource split across an agency's other clients.
We shortlist candidates against your actual role requirements, you interview and approve before anyone starts, and your dedicated resource is trained on your specific systems and processes from day one.
Your Team, Your Way

Ready to add this role to your team?

Tell us your enquiry volumes and current CRM — we'll shortlist candidates against your actual task list.

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