Industry playbooks

Marketing for real estate agencies
more listings seen, more viewings booked

An agency sells attention as much as property: the same listing, shown to the right buyer at the right moment, outsells a bigger budget spent broadly. We run the ads, route the leads to agents and measure the result as viewings and closed deals, not form fills.

from$1,200
Timeline2 to 3 weeks to launch, first measured viewings in 3 to 5 weeks
What is includedCampaigns by listing type, budget band and buyer intentCatalogue or carousel ads synced to your listing feedCRM pipeline from lead to viewing to dealRound-robin or territory-based agent routingViewing and deal tracking back to the campaign
industry rangeagencies typically cut cost per qualified lead by a third once a shared inbox is replaced with routing and alerts
typicala feed with wrong prices or dead links usually costs 10 to 30% of listings their reach until fixed, by industry estimates
under 5 mintypical target for alerting the right agent once a lead is tagged with location and budget

Where the money leaks today

Agencies often run the same ad for every listing and let the algorithm decide who sees it, so a studio apartment competes for the same audience as a villa. Leads land in a group chat or a personal phone, which means the fastest agent, not the best-matched one, gets the lead - and the ones that go unanswered for a day are simply gone. Few agencies can say, with numbers, which channel brought the viewing that became a deal.

In a developer-side version of this problem we worked on, classifying hundreds of WhatsApp conversations by AI showed that Facebook leads converted into real conversations 2.7 times cheaper than Instagram ones for the same spend - a gap invisible without tracking, and worth more than any extra budget.

What we do

Campaigns are built around listing type and buyer intent: investors, end users, relocation buyers, each with their own creative and landing experience, synced where possible to your live listing feed so a sold unit stops being advertised automatically. Every lead is tagged with location, budget and source, then routed to an agent by round robin or territory with an instant alert, instead of sitting in a group chat.

We build the CRM pipeline from lead to viewing to deal, so a director can see, without calling anyone, which campaigns are producing viewings and which are producing dead leads. A sales monitor flags a booked viewing or a closed deal as it happens.

What we need from you

Your listing feed or an export from whatever portal you use, access to your ad accounts, your current CRM or sheet (even a messy one), and a short conversation with your top-performing agent about what a good lead actually looks like before it is wasted on the wrong one.

How we measure

We report in viewings and deals, traced back to the campaign that produced the first contact, not just in leads. When a feed has wrong prices or broken listings - a problem we have found and fixed directly in a live ad account - we flag it before more budget goes into it.

Price and timeline

Option Price What it covers Timeline
Launch or audit from $1,200 Campaign setup, listing feed sync, CRM pipeline 2 to 3 weeks
Monthly management from $1,200 / month Ongoing campaigns, agent routing, weekly reporting monthly, no lock-in
Full control, handover to your team from $3,000 (one-time) + $450 / month for edits Documented system, access transferred, your team runs it 3 to 5 weeks to hand over

See sales funnels, lead magnets and CRM for the routing and pipeline build, and performance marketing for the ad side. Related playbooks: marketing for real estate developers, marketing for hotels and villas, marketing in Poland. For the automation behind it, see lead routing. Real numbers: the CRM and lead routing case in Bali and the five-language site in Montenegro.

Want to see where your current leads actually go? Get in touch and we will look at your funnel on the first call.

FAQ

How much does marketing for a real estate agency cost?

Launch or audit starts from $1,200: campaign setup, listing feed and CRM pipeline. Ongoing management starts from $1,200 a month. A full system with routing between several agents and a sales monitor usually runs $2,500 to $4,000 a month.

How long until we see viewings from the ads?

Campaigns launch in 1 to 2 weeks. Leads start arriving within days; a reliable read on cost per viewing takes 3 to 5 weeks because viewings are booked a few days after first contact.

What budget do we need for ads?

A realistic minimum is $1,000 to $1,500 a month per market so campaigns see enough bookings to optimise against. We will tell you honestly if your current budget is too thin to learn from.

What do you need from us to start?

Your listing feed or portal export, access to ad accounts, your CRM or sheet, and the names of agents who will take the leads, so routing rules match how your team actually works.

How do you report results?

Weekly in Telegram: leads, viewings booked, deals closed, cost per deal, pulled from your CRM and ad accounts together, not from the platform's own attribution.

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