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Google Ads for Property Management Companies

Google Ads for property management companies spends on landlords, not on people hunting for a flat, even though both type words like rent and letting.

The campaigns that pay best reach owners unhappy with their current manager, and a quick question at the start of each call separates them from tenants.

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Online challenges for property management companies

Property management adverts attract flat hunters far more often than landlords, and every tenant click costs as much as an owner's.

Landlords ready to leave their present manager are searching as well, and few adverts speak to them.

Flat hunters click the adverts meant for landlords

Many searches around letting come from people looking for somewhere to live, and each click on an advert is paid for.

  • Without words that exclude them, the budget meant for owners funds a stream of tenant enquiries.
  • An advert with a phone number brings calls about broken locks and job openings that take an hour a day to sort.

Owners unhappy with their manager search, and nobody answers them

A landlord ready to change manager types questions about giving notice and moving the keys and deposits.

  • A campaign that speaks only to first-time landlords misses these owners, who already know what they want.
  • Their click deserves a page about switching, not the home page.

Google Ads approach for property management companies

For property management companies, we build Google Ads with a separate campaign for each kind of search, a weekly check of the search terms, and pages that show the same proof as the ad.

Paying for owners, not for tenants

A search with the word rent usually comes from someone looking for a flat, while the client a manager needs is the person who owns one.

  • The campaigns are built on owners' words: management of a let flat, what a manager charges, how to find a tenant, how to change manager.
  • Searches by people looking for a home are blocked, unless you have empty flats to fill, and then they get a small campaign of their own.

The owner who is leaving another manager

Some of the best enquiries come from owners who are unhappy where they are and type questions about notice and handover.

  • Their advert leads to a page on taking over a let home: the keys, the deposit, the tenancy in progress and who tells the tenant.
  • Owners living abroad get adverts shown in their country and in their evening, with a page that says how rent and reports reach them.

Calls sorted before they take an hour of your day

A phone number in an advert attracts tenants with a broken lock and people looking for work.

  • We block searches for jobs, courses and management software, and keep your own name out of the paid results where it is mostly tenants who type it to find the repairs number.
  • Calls are counted per campaign, and the measure is management agreements signed, since a busy phone alone proves nothing.

Google Ads process for property management companies

01

Searches worth paying for

We separate the searches that bring customers from those that only cost money.

02

Campaign build

We split the campaigns by service or offer and connect call, form and booking tracking before launch. For management firms, the budget pays for owners, never for tenants looking for a flat, with one campaign for owners who want to leave their current manager.

03

Landing pages

Each advert opens a page about what it promised, with the way to call or book in view.

04

Tuning

In the first weeks we move the budget towards the searches and adverts that bring enquiries, and switch off the rest.

Price: Google Ads for property management companies costs €350 to set up and from €250 a month to manage, for ad budgets up to about €800 a month, plus VAT, three-month minimum. You pay Google directly; larger budgets are quoted.

Property management for tenants and owners: repair requests sent to the right person, regular reports and good support

How we measure results for property management companies

The report shows what one owner meeting cost, and how many paid calls were tenant matters that took time from your day.

Questions about Google Ads for property management companies

Plain answers about Google Ads, written for property management companies.

First enquiries can come within days of the start, since an owner with a tenant in arrears searches today.

  • Tuning the account takes the first weeks, mostly spent shutting out tenants' searches.
  • Signed agreements follow later: many owners wait until a tenancy ends or the notice with their present manager runs out.

By excluding the words they use, such as repair, report, contact and log in, and by reading the search terms regularly for new ones.

  • The top of your website gets a clear link for tenants, so they stop looking for you through adverts.
  • What remains is a small cost that cannot be removed entirely.

Yes.

  • Their owners search with other words, about changeovers, cleaning and handing over keys, and they decide before the season and not in the middle of it.
  • The fee is built differently as well, so the page behind the advert has to be another one.
  • The budget moves towards them ahead of the season and back afterwards.

The kinds of property you take and those you refuse, for instance single rooms or homes outside your districts.

  • The districts themselves, the fee you are prepared to show on the landing page, and who picks up when an owner rings.
  • We also ask how many new homes your team can take on, so the budget fits that.

General questions about Google Ads, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

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