Glide for Real Estate: Listings, Tenant Portals and Inspections

Glide (glideapps.com) fits real-estate work that already lives in spreadsheets: listings shared with agents, property and unit records, maintenance requests, inspection checklists, and tenant or owner portals. It builds custom apps; it is not property-management software with accounting, so the fair verdict is a good fit for the gaps around your core system. Glide's own real-estate page frames it the same way and says some teams keep Buildium or AppFolio and fill the gaps with custom apps. The cheapest step that publishes is GlideOS Basic at $25 per month (100 credits, 2 published apps, billed monthly) or Glide Classic Explorer at $19 per month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly. One warning first. glide.com, the real-estate transaction software, is a different company.

The evidence is real but mostly older. Glide's customer pages for TTR Sotheby's International Realty, Westland Real Estate Group and eXp Realty do not say which Glide product the apps run on, and eXp's onboarding app used a Glide Page, a format Glide retired in March 2023. Read every customer figure below as the customer's or Glide's own claim, as those pages read in November 2026. Check the product before the template.

Two Glide products, and which one a property team should open

Glide now sells two separate products with separate accounts, and Glide says it has no tool to move a Glide Classic app into GlideOS (the full split is in our Glide review). GlideOS is the newer one: you describe the app or upload a spreadsheet, PDF or screenshot, and the Glide Agent builds the screens, the data and the workflows. Glide Classic is the original no-code builder, still sold, with a data editor, components and the template gallery that most real-estate examples come from. Glide's main pricing page now sends new sign-ups to GlideOS.

The billing units decide a lot for a brokerage. GlideOS charges per organization in credits, which the agent spends while building and which AI features and workflow steps inside your apps also spend. GlideOS Plus with 250 credits costs $50 per month, billed monthly, and is the first GlideOS plan that publishes public apps. GlideOS Pro costs $125 per month with 5 team members and 500 credits, plus $10 per extra member per month ^[1]. Every GlideOS plan bills monthly only, Glide says annual plans are coming soon, and its Terms make fees and credits non-refundable except where the law requires (plan by plan on our pricing page).

Glide Classic charges per team, with users and monthly updates instead of credits. Glide Classic Maker costs $49 per month billed yearly or $60 billed monthly, with unlimited personal users and 500 updates a month. Glide Classic Business costs $199 per month billed yearly or $249 billed monthly with 30 users included, then $5 per additional user per month billed annually or $6 billed monthly ^[2]. The user rule matters here. Tenants and buyers who sign in with Gmail count as personal users, but agents on the brokerage's own email domain need Glide Classic Business. Glide's docs add that a Maker team can ask Glide to treat one email domain as personal.

Listings and leads on an agent's phone

TTR Sotheby's International Realty is the clearest listings case. Its First Look app holds private exclusive and coming-soon listings, and Glide's customer page says each new listing goes out automatically to the roughly 500 agents, with a call or text button for the listing agent on every record. eXp Realty used a Glide Page where new agents registered for their state and worked through an onboarding checklist, during months when the company added upwards of 5,000 agents. Glide's customer page says eXp's agent NPS rose more than 5 points to 70 (as read in November 2026).

For your own build, the listings templates show the usual pattern. Brokers see every listing, agents edit only their own, and an inquiry emails the listing agent. In Glide Classic that rule should rest on Row Owners, which the server enforces, because filters and visibility conditions only hide data the app has already downloaded. Community real-estate templates are priced one by one: a lead-cards app at $4.99, a listings app at $14.99 and a listings-and-leads CRM at $249.99, none of which includes a plan (how the gallery works).

Where the office spreadsheet sits matters too. Glide Classic Maker and higher plans keep a Google Sheet in two-way sync, so the shared sheet can stay the master copy that other tools read, though Maker admits only personal-email app users and agents on a company domain need Glide Classic Business. GlideOS copies the sheet into its own database and does not write changes back (our Glide review). Public listing pages split the products the other way. GlideOS public apps, available from GlideOS Plus, have been indexed by search engines since August 2026, and anyone with the link can see the data they show. Glide Classic blocks search indexing, and embedding a whole app in your website needs Glide Classic Business, switched on by support.

Tenant and owner portals for property managers

Westland Real Estate Group shows the property-management side at scale. Glide's customer page says the group manages 12,000+ rental units across 65+ communities and runs about 20 private Glide apps covering properties, inspections, budgeting and asset management. A June 2023 post on Glide's blog, written by the agency V88, says the letting agency Silverbirch saw inbound calls and emails fall by 75% after launching a tenant app. Neither page names the product.

The Glide-made starting points show no price. The Property Manager template tracks rent payments, maintenance requests and a mix of condos, houses and apartments; the Property Management template adds units, leases, income and expenses, and landlord and tenant contacts. Glide's blog describes the access pattern most portfolios want. Property managers see only the buildings they run, supervisors see the whole portfolio, and each owner gets a portal with only their own assets. That pattern needs real row-level rules, not hidden screens.

Who may open a portal differs by product. In GlideOS, tenants and owners can be guests: they see only the apps shared with them and take no seat. Paid plans list unlimited guests, but admins can invite only 10 new guests every 30 days (3 per member on GlideOS Pro and Enterprise). That pace matters for large buildings. In Glide Classic, tenants with personal email addresses fit Glide Classic Maker's unlimited personal users (staff on a company domain need Glide Classic Business), while privacy per row comes from Row Owners combined with Roles. Neither Free plan publishes apps.

Inspections, walk-throughs and lease paperwork

Inspection apps are where Glide Classic's field components earn their keep. The Signature component works on paid plans and stores the drawn signature as an image, and the Location component logs a one-time position. The Map component runs on Mapbox, so coordinates copied from Google Maps can land slightly off, and Glide recommends filtering any map with more than 1,000 pins. Offline add-row works except on SQL sources and Big Tables. Photos count against file storage: 10GB on Glide Classic Explorer, 25GB on Maker and 500GB on Business.

The Glide-made Inspection Tool template builds custom checklists for site inspections, installations and equipment. A community Facility Inspections template covers several locations with maps, floor plans and an approve-or-deny review page, and it can schedule the next inspection automatically. Westland's own apps include inspections, which is the strongest sign this pattern holds up across a large portfolio. GlideOS documents no offline mode, so a crew working in basements with weak signal has reason to pilot first. Test it before you commit.

AI covers the paperwork. Glide's real-estate page describes AI that extracts lease clauses, summarizes turnover notes and surfaces trends across properties, and its blog describes a contract manager that pulls renewal dates and payment terms from leases. Neither names the product. The bill differs by product. In Glide Classic, Glide AI spends updates, and Document to Text costs 5 updates each time it runs. In GlideOS, AI inside your apps spends credits, and new AI requests stop when the monthly credits run out until they reset or you buy more (our pricing guide).

Rent, card numbers and other hard limits

Glide's blog says tenant apps can accept rent payments, but both products' data rules prohibit storing card or bank account numbers in an app ^[3]. In GlideOS, end-user payments run through Stripe Connect, and the Terms let Glide charge a per-transaction fee whose amount is not published and can change ^[4]. Balances, expenses and other sensitive financial data are allowed only in private apps, and GlideOS also requires a paid account for them. Card numbers stay with the processor.

Several other limits shape a real-estate rollout. Glide Classic apps are web apps that Glide does not publish to the Apple App Store or Google Play, and no store publishing is documented for GlideOS, which shows a QR code for home-screen install after the first publish. Glide says it has no EU servers and no self-hosting. Glide says Glide Classic is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and SOC 2 Type 1 for GlideOS is in progress (as read in November 2026), and both products' rules prohibit HIPAA health data (our Glide review). Long histories hit a ceiling. Glide Classic allows 25,000 spreadsheet-source rows on every plan, and Big Tables reach 100,000 rows on Glide Classic Business.

The bottom line

Glide suits a brokerage or property team that wants its own listings app, owner portal or inspection checklist on top of records it already keeps, and has one person willing to build and maintain it. Choose the product before anything else. Glide Classic brings Row Owners, two-way Google Sheets sync from Glide Classic Maker (personal-email app users only; company-domain staff need Glide Classic Business) and field components (some on paid plans only); GlideOS brings building by chat and search-indexed public pages, billed in credits. Keep rent payments with a processor, keep accounting in your core system, and pilot with a few real tenants or agents first.