Marketing for property and lettings businesses
Independent agents lose instructions to firms that are no better, only clearer. The fix is rarely more spend: it is a fee proposition a landlord can understand in ten seconds, a separate path for landlords and tenants, and town-level search coverage the portals never bother to claim.
Intent clusters compound over time
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How should a small lettings or estate agency market itself?
Lead with the fee model and the service promise, not the property feed. Split landlords and tenants into separate journeys, claim search at town and street level rather than fighting national portals on head terms, and qualify enquiries with checks so viewings and valuations reach you already filtered.
In short
Win the towns you actually cover instead of bidding against the portals.
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What holds property and lettings businesses back
Three patterns that come up on almost every first call in this sector.
Every agent in town says the same three things
Local knowledge, personal service, competitive fees. When four firms make identical claims, the landlord picks on price or on whoever appeared first in the search result — and you are back to discounting.
The portals eat the enquiries you paid to create
Portal listings generate leads for the portal first. Your own site takes the overflow, often with no landlord path at all, so the higher-value audience never sees an argument written for them.
Valuation requests arrive unqualified
A one-line contact form tells you nothing. You spend evenings driving to appraisals for properties you did not want, and the ones you did want went to the firm that answered faster.
How the work is shaped for property and lettings
Each of these is a service you can buy on its own, or as one plan with someone senior owning it.
A fee proposition that survives comparison
We settle what you charge, what it includes and why switching is worth the friction — then put that argument on the page a landlord reads before they call anyone.
Marketing StrategyTown-by-town search coverage
A page for each town and audience you genuinely serve, structured around the questions landlords and sellers type. That is winnable ground the national brands ignore.
SEOEnquiries that qualify before you answer
Rental valuation checks, landlord fee calculators and routed forms mean the enquiries reaching your inbox are already sorted by value and readiness.
CRM and funnelThe £999 build, applied to property and lettings
A lettings or agency site rarely needs 40 pages of design — it needs 40 pages of coverage. The fixed build is usually spent on the towns, the audience split and the fee pages that portals cannot host for you.
- Separate landlord and tenant (or seller and buyer) journeys from the homepage
- A page per town and area you cover, written rather than templated
- Transparent fees and management levels with a switching page
- Valuation and enquiry forms that route by audience and value
Up to 40 pages designed, written, built and launched for a fixed £999, live in four weeks from the signed brief, then £100 a month to keep it current. Answer six questions and you get an indicative quote and a page plan.
Engagements in this sector
Real client work, with the decisions and the commercial result written up.
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Local marketing and landlord acquisition
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Go-to-market and beta demand
McGarrigle and Co
Positioning and guide-led SEO
Property and lettings: common questions
Recommended next steps
Where property and lettings clients usually start.
- Step 01
Proposition and positioning
Decide what the business claims and who it claims it for, before a penny goes into a channel.
Read the scope - Step 02
Local and audience-split search
Win the towns you actually serve, with a separate path for each audience you serve them to.
Read the scope - Step 03
Website design and build
Rebuild the site around the decision the visitor is trying to make.
Read the scope
Need the website itself first?
A complete site of up to 40 pages designed, written, built and launched for a fixed £999, then kept current for £100 a month. Answer six questions and you get an indicative quote, a page plan and a build window — no deposit taken on site.
Where to go next
A few things worth reading — and the pages most people move to from here.
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Related services
- Website design & buildA full rebuild for a site that no longer sells what you do.
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Talk through your property and lettings plan
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