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Google Ads for Real Estate Agencies

Google Ads for estate agents spends on owners who may want to sell, not on people scrolling through homes who will end up on a portal regardless.

An advert that promises a free valuation or names a fee has to match what the agent says at the door, or the first meeting starts with an owner who feels misled.

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Estate agent presenting a sales plan to a homeowner in an elegant home

Online challenges for real estate agencies

Results get distorted when research, comparison and people genuinely ready to talk are treated as the same stage.

Buying, selling and letting are different searches

A seller, a buyer, a landlord and a tenant each ask a different question.

  • One home page for all four gives none of them a clear next step.
  • Separate paths let a seller ask for a valuation and a buyer look at an area without getting in each other's way.

Ads and search results pull against each other

Paid campaigns and the pages found in search often reach the same people with different messages.

  • One plan decides which areas and which kind of client each of them is for.
  • Then an enquiry can be traced to its source, and the budget follows what works.

Tenants clicking adverts meant for landlords

Words like letting and rent are typed far more often by people looking for a flat than by owners looking for an agent.

  • Each of those clicks is paid for and ends with a renter who wanted listings, not a valuation.
  • A budget for landlords can be gone by lunchtime with no landlord among the visitors.

Google Ads approach for real estate agencies

For real estate agencies, we build Google Ads around the stages of the decision: separate campaigns for people comparing and people ready to talk, and pages that move buyers forward one stage at a time.

Paying for sellers, leaving browsers to the portals

A click from someone browsing homes costs money and usually ends on a portal anyway, while a click from an owner can end in an instruction.

  • The main campaign is built on what owners type: sell my house, what is my flat worth, what an agent charges, an agent in a named district.
  • Searches for homes to buy are advertised only where the portals do not reach: a few listings that need it, or buyers who search from abroad in their own language. That budget is small and kept apart from the sellers' one.

A district in the advert and on the page behind it

An owner trusts the agent who has sold in the same streets, so one advert for the whole town persuades nobody.

  • Each district gets its own group of adverts that names it, and a landing page with homes you sold there and the agent who covers it.
  • Landlords get a campaign of their own, since someone looking for a tenant asks other questions and should not land on a valuation page.

The selling season, the evening and the wasted clicks

Owners decide to sell in waves through the year and sit down to search after work.

  • The budget rises ahead of the months when most homes come to market, and call adverts run only in the hours when an agent picks up.
  • We block searches for jobs in estate agency, licence courses, free price calculators and the names of portals, which bring visitors with no home to sell.

Google Ads for estate agents in Cyprus: owners and serious buyers, not browsers

Property searches about Cyprus come from many countries and in several languages, and most of them are dreams, not plans. An account that treats them alike spends its budget on people who will never fly over.

We separate campaigns by language, by the stage of the decision and for owners who want to sell, and we count a booked viewing or a phone call to the office, not a click on a listing. Our team works from Paphos.

The same service for businesses in any trade: Google Ads in Limassol.

Google Ads process for real estate agencies

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 estate agents, we agree with the office which districts it wants more instructions in, so the budget goes where homes are short, not where the agency is already busy.

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 real estate agencies 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.

Selling or buying a property: a talk about the valuation and the neighbourhood

How we measure results for real estate agencies

Each valuation appointment is costed by district, with a note of how many of those visits became a signed instruction.

Questions about Google Ads for real estate agencies

Plain answers about Google Ads, written for real estate agencies.

First enquiries can come within days of the start, as owners search all year round.

  • Tuning the account takes the first weeks, in which we learn which districts and which wording bring owners and which bring the merely curious.
  • Instructions follow more slowly, since an owner often invites two or three agents before choosing.

Seldom.

  • Buyers look on the portals, where your listing already stands, and a paid click to the same home adds little.
  • The exceptions are a new development you sell alone and a home too unusual for the portal filters.
  • Everything else in the budget goes to finding owners, because stock is what an agency runs short of.

Usually yes.

  • An owner who saw your board in the street or had your leaflet through the door searches your name, and a rival's advert above your result can take that visit.
  • The advert on your own name is usually cheap and leads straight to the valuation page, not to the home page.

The districts and kinds of home you want more of, and those you would rather not take.

  • Who answers valuation calls and at which hours, and how many valuations a week the agents can attend.
  • We also ask what you are willing to say about your fee, since owners look for it on the landing page.

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

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