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Real estate marketing that wins listings, not just likes.

The portals bring buyers. Listings come from vendors who trust you. We help agencies, agents and developers win appraisals, sell projects and build a brand that owns the local market.

Real estate at a glance
Where growth comes fromLocal SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and your website
What we measureAppraisal requests, listings won and cost per lead
Watch out forRelying on the portals for everything

Why real estate marketing is different

In real estate, the listing is the prize. Buyers are easy to find on the portals. Vendors choose the agent they trust most.

01

Listings drive everything

Every sale starts with a vendor choosing an agent. Marketing that wins appraisals is worth more than marketing that only finds buyers.

02

The portals own the buyer search

Most buyers browse the big portals. Your own marketing should build your brand and win the vendors the portals will never hand you.

03

It is hyper-local

Vendors want someone who knows their street. Local visibility and suburb knowledge win trust.

04

Ad targeting has limits

Meta treats property ads as a special ad category, which limits targeting by age, gender and postcode.

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The channels that work for real estate

Agencies grow best by owning their suburbs in search, staying visible on social and making appraisals easy to request. Pick a channel to see how we run it.

Own the suburbs you sell in

Vendors search for agents and property information in their area. We help you show up with suburb pages, market updates and a strong Business Profile.

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  • Suburb and area pages
  • Agent profiles that rank
  • A Google Business Profile for each office
  • Content vendors actually want to read

The playbook

The real estate marketing playbook

How agencies and agents win more listings from their own marketing. Practical steps to check against what you do now.

The Anahaw Media team
Planned and run by senior people, not handed to juniors.

01Market to vendors, not just buyers

The portals are built to serve buyers. They do little to help you win the next listing. Your own marketing should focus on the people who might sell in the next year or two: homeowners in your patch who are quietly watching the market.

That means content and campaigns about selling, such as what homes in the suburb are worth, how long they take to sell, and what you would do to get the best price.

02Own your suburbs in search

Vendors often search for agents and market information in their own suburb. A page for each key suburb, with local knowledge, recent activity and your team, gives you a real chance to rank and prove you know the area.

  • One page per core suburb, not one page listing twenty.
  • A Google Business Profile for each office, with genuine reviews.
  • Agent profiles that show local experience.

03Make appraisals easy to ask for

An appraisal request is the most valuable action on your website. Put it on every page, keep the form short and follow up fast. Offering something useful, such as a local market update, gives vendors a low-pressure reason to get in touch.

04Work with the ad rules, not against them

Under Meta’s housing special ad category, you often cannot target by age, gender or postcode. The agencies that do well use strong local creative that speaks to the right people on its own, and they build audiences from their own website visitors and database.

05Track listings, not likes

Social engagement is nice, but listings pay the bills. Track appraisal requests from each channel, then follow them through to signed listings. After a few months, you will know exactly which marketing wins listings in which suburbs.

How we would approach it

A clear first 90 days, then steady improvement. No lock-in contract, so we keep earning your business every month.

  1. First 30 days

    Audit and tracking

    We review your website, ads and local visibility, and track appraisal and buyer enquiries.

  2. Days 31 to 60

    Foundations

    We fix your Business Profiles, key pages and ad structure.

  3. Days 61 to 90

    Win appraisals

    We launch appraisal campaigns, suburb content and brand ads in your target areas.

  4. Month 4 onwards

    Grow your patch

    We expand to new suburbs and projects, and report it all in AgencyAnalytics.

What we measure

Listings are what matter, so that is where our reporting points.

Appraisal requests

Vendors asking for a market appraisal.

Cost per appraisal

What your marketing spends to win each appraisal request.

Listings won

Appraisals that become signed listings.

Buyer enquiries

Enquiries on listings and projects.

Local visibility

How often you show up for suburb searches.

Database growth

New contacts you own, not the portals.

Rules we work within

The rules for property marketing

Property marketing has its own rules, and we plan around them:

  • Advertising must not be false or misleading under the Australian Consumer Law and state real estate laws.
  • Victoria and New South Wales have underquoting laws that control how price guides are advertised.
  • Meta treats housing ads as a special ad category. Where it applies, you cannot target by age, gender or postcode, so creative and your own audiences do more of the work.

This is general information, not legal advice. Your own advisers have the final say on compliance.

Questions from agents and developers

Straight answers to what people ask us most.

Yes. The portals are where buyers browse. But they do not help you win vendors, so your own marketing should focus on appraisals and your brand.

Yes, but targeting is limited under the housing special ad category. Strong local creative and remarketing to your own website visitors make up for much of it.

Yes. We build project landing pages and run Google and Meta campaigns with tracking for every enquiry.

Yes. We work with agencies, individual agents and developers, and tailor the plan to your budget and area.

Paid campaigns can start bringing appraisal requests within weeks. Local SEO takes longer, usually a few months, but it keeps working without paying per click.

No. Our marketing services run month to month. If we are not delivering, you can leave.

About the author

Director and Lead Consultant, Anahaw Media

John Conigliaro is the Director and Lead Consultant at Anahaw Media, a Perth digital marketing agency focused on performance. A Filipino-Australian digital marketer now based in Perth, WA, with more than 15 years’ experience across Singapore and Australia, he has led agencies in Australia on technical execution and growth strategy, founded a globally recognised eCommerce brand, and managed almost 300 campaigns, from small businesses to multinational brands, including Canon, Uniqlo, Benefit Cosmetics, Asiana Airlines, Changi Recommends, APM and Golfbox. He completed an MBA and a dissertation on Digital Transformation, holds a specialisation in Computer Applications from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLSU-CSB), and is also a consumer tech critic and publisher. His mission is to use his talent and passion for digital marketing to change businesses for the better, in how they win customers and how they build their brand.

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