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Marketing for real estate agents

Marketing for real estate agents starts with the valuation.

A listing usually begins with a valuation, and the agent who gets through the door first has a head start. Here is how we would use Google and Meta to get more valuations, and why ads aimed at sellers and buyers need to be kept apart.

Short answer: Real estate agents should advertise on “verdivurdering bolig” (home valuation) and “hva er boligen min verdt” (what is my home worth) on Google, and use Meta to reach homeowners in the areas you want to win, with homes you have sold there. The ads should lead to a valuation form that asks for the address, not to an agent profile. Ads for homes for sale reach buyers. They belong in a separate campaign with a different goal.
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Seller ads and buyer ads are two different things.

Many agents promote homes for sale and count it as marketing themselves. That reaches buyers. Listings come from sellers, and they need a different ad.

Seller ads

Goal: valuations

Audience: homeowners in the neighborhoods you want to win. Content: homes you have sold there, and an offer of a valuation. Leads to a form that asks for the address. Measured on booked valuations, and over time on listings.

Buyer ads

Goal: viewings and bids

Audience: people looking for a home. Content: the home that is for sale. Leads to the listing on Finn or your own site. Useful for the seller you already have, but rarely brings in new listings. Kept in a separate campaign with its own budget.

Google: the searches where the seller is getting started

The searches we would start with: “verdivurdering bolig”, “hva er boligen min verdt”, “selge bolig [by]” (sell home [city]), “eiendomsmegler [by]” (real estate agent [city]), “megler pris” (agent fees). The first two matter most. People who search them have started thinking about selling, but often haven’t chosen an agent. “Eiendomsmegler [by]” is where the big chains bid the most, so we would start narrow and put the budget on valuations.

The landing page is a valuation form with the address field at the top. Sellers want a number for their home first and to get to know the agent afterwards, so the agent profile can sit further down.

Meta: own a few neighborhoods

A local agent can pick a few neighborhoods and show ads only there, featuring homes you have sold on those streets. People recognize the neighbor’s house. When it’s their turn to sell, you’re the agent they’ve seen.

Split the account by area. For Utvendig Renhold, which has its own campaigns in nine regions, a lead costs between NOK 145 and NOK 341 for the same service, depending only on where the ad runs. Without that split, there would be no way to see where the money did the most good. We would do the same for your neighborhoods.

Victor Skretteberg

Hi, Victor here. We haven’t worked with real estate agents. What we have done a lot of is splitting ad accounts by geography and moving money toward the areas that bring in inquiries. It’s the same job you do as an agent when you choose which neighborhoods you want to win.

Send us your website, and we’ll put together a concrete proposal for ads and a landing page for your agency, the way it would look with your brand. You’ll get it by email within a couple of days, and it’s yours either way.

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What a valuation is worth

A listing with NOK 60,000 in commission and a 50% contribution margin gives NOK 30,000. If one in five valuations becomes a listing, a valuation is worth NOK 6,000. The numbers are an example. Plug in your own, and we know how much we can pay.

Timing and follow-up

Spring and early fall are when the most homes go on the market. The valuation happens before that, so the ads should start well ahead. Sales are planned over months, so we would retarget people for up to 90 days after they visited the form without sending it.

  1. Tracking on the valuation form and phone
  2. Google: valuations and “selge bolig [område]” (sell home [area])
  3. Meta: sold homes and valuations for homeowners in selected neighborhoods
  4. Buyer ads in a separate campaign, kept apart from the seller budget

You get a report every Monday with cost and valuations per area.

More industries: marketing for service businesses. Geography in Google Ads: Google Ads for multiple locations.

Before / after

Before and after Arcads.

The numbers come from our clients’ own ad accounts.

See also: Google Ads agency · Meta Ads agency · Performance marketing agency · What is UGC? · Google Ads agency Oslo

What real estate agents ask us.

What can a seller lead cost for an agent?+
We don’t have our own numbers from the real estate industry, so we work from the commission. A listing with NOK 60,000 in commission and NOK 30,000 in contribution margin, where one in five valuations becomes a listing, makes a valuation worth around NOK 6,000. Even an expensive lead is then a small cost compared with what the listing is worth.
Google or Facebook for real estate agents?+
Both. Google for people searching “verdivurdering” (valuation) right now. Facebook and Instagram to become the agent the neighborhood knows before they start searching.
What kind of content would you use on Facebook?+
Homes you have sold in the neighborhood, with the street, a photo and how quickly it sold, shown to people who live there. Local and concrete, with real sales you can document.
How do we follow up on valuation leads?+
Call the same day, book a home visit, and put the seller on a follow-up list. For those who aren’t ready yet, we can set up retargeting so you stay visible until they are.
Have you worked with real estate agents before?+
No. We have worked a lot with accounts split by geography, including for Utvendig Renhold with its own campaigns in nine regions. The setup on this page is how we would do it for you.
What does Arcads cost?+
We take a share of the value we create for you, not a fixed monthly fee. If you don’t earn more, you pay us nothing. For this to work for both sides, the ads need to create enough value for our share to be around NOK 20,000–30,000 a month. That’s why we work with established businesses with at least NOK 30,000 in monthly ad budget. You pay the ad budget directly to Google and Meta. See the pricing page.
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