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New property listings are one of social and digital media's most effective content categories

Written by Neil Campbell | 5/10/24 5:08 AM

Here's 12 Reasons Why

1. Freshness and Relevance

New property listings are inherently fresh and relevant to users actively searching for homes or investment opportunities. This freshness makes such content highly engaging, capturing the attention of potential buyers or renters within relevant postcodes.


2. High Demand

Property listing content fulfils a fundamental need for individuals and families seeking housing or real estate investments. As such, there is a consistently high demand for this type of content, driving user engagement and interaction.


3. Visual Appeal

Property listings often feature visually appealing images or videos showcasing the property's features, amenities, and location. Visual content performs exceptionally well on social and digital media platforms, attracting attention and generating user interest.


4. Local Relevance

Property listings are often tailored to specific geographic locations, making them highly relevant to local audiences. Social and digital media platforms enable targeted distribution of listings to users based on their location, increasing the likelihood of reaching interested buyers or renters in the vicinity.


5. Shareability

Property listings are inherently shareable content. Users may share listings with friends, family, or colleagues in the real estate market, thereby expanding the reach of the content organically through social networks.


6. Lead Generation

Property listings serve as effective lead-generation tools for real estate professionals and agencies. Interested buyers or renters who engage with listings may inquire further or schedule viewings, providing valuable leads for conversion.


7. Market Insights

Analysis of engagement metrics on property listings provides valuable insights into market trends, buyer preferences, and demand patterns. This data can inform pricing strategies, marketing campaigns, and future listing decisions.


8. Diverse Audience

Property listings appeal to a diverse audience, including first-time homebuyers, real estate investors, renters, and individuals looking for vacation homes or rental properties. This broad appeal maximises the potential reach and impact of listing content on social and digital media platforms. These audiences can then be segmented and applied to improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of future campaigns.

 

9. AI needs quality data

Data Property Type data combined with social/digital engagement is being explored, and a unique set of data to be applied to AI-driven services and future competitive advantages.

 

10. Powerful traffic source

Because of the inherently social nature of new listing content, its engagement rate is very high. This, in turn, delivers relevant and cost-effective enquiry traffic to your website. 

 

11. Mobile-centric

The agency controls must be the mobile marketing strategy in its relevant business development areas. Meta dominates mobile as a channel. Meta + New listings content is today's most effective mobile strategy.

 

12. Search Engine Rankings

Search engines like Google prioritise the first publishing of new content. Adhering to first publisher principles improves a website's search engine optimisation (SEO) and increases user visibility. Don’t be the second publisher.