Estate agents · Lettings
Catch the sellers browsing at midnight.
The people who'll instruct you in spring are looking tonight. This turns a few of them a month from anonymous browsers into named sellers with a phone number.
An estimate in under a minute
The problem
The people who instruct you in spring start looking now.
Someone checks what a neighbour's place went for. They wonder about their own. That's the beginning of a seller's journey, and it happens months before anyone books a valuation.
If there's nowhere on your site to satisfy that, they go to a portal instead. By the time they're ready to instruct, you were never in the conversation.
What you get
- A valuation form with your branding; Postcode, property type, bedrooms. Simple enough that people finish it.
- A named lead every time it's used; Name, email, phone, and the property.
- A link and QR for anywhere; Website, Google profile, social, leaflets, window.
Where to use it
Four placements that generate instructions.
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Your website homepage
Highest-intent traffic you have, and most agency sites offer nothing but a contact form.
- Add a button above the fold; "What's my home worth?"
- Repeat it in the footer sitewide.
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Your Google Business Profile
High-intent local searches, and your competitors' profiles are mostly empty.
- Add the link to Appointment link.
- Post monthly alongside local sold prices.
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Leaflet drops
Turns an advert into something useful.
- Put the QR on any door-drop; "What's your home worth? Scan for an instant estimate."
- Use a different QR per area so you can see which streets respond.
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Your window display
People stop, look, and walk on.
- Print at A5, beside the listings, eye height.
- One line above; "Curious what yours is worth? Scan here."
Common mistakes
- Asking too much before showing a number. Every extra field loses people. Postcode and basics, show the figure, then ask who they are.
- Treating the estimate as the product. It isn't. It's the reason they'll tell you their name. The conversation after is the product.
- Following up slowly. These are warmest in the first hour. Same-day beats three days later by a distance.
What to expect
Most of these leads aren't selling this month, and treating them as if they are will lose them. What you're building is a list of people who've said they're thinking about it, months before they'd have contacted you.
Handled patiently, that's one of the more reliable sources of instructions an independent agent has.