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Real Estate.

Digital marketing and advertising for developers and residential owners, built to fill buildings with qualified tours and signed leases.

Looking straight down at city towers and streets: digital marketing and advertising for real estate developers and owners
TF Cornerstone+80%

Rental applications, from 30,959 to 55,602.

TF Cornerstone+730%

Search conversion rate, after the program was rebuilt around applications.

Audience Finder950,000+

Audiences from 287 providers and platforms, free to search. More than 49,000 are tagged Real Estate & Home.

Selected clients
  • Lightstone Group
  • Moinian Group
  • TF Cornerstone
  • Two Trees Management

Every month a unit sits vacant is revenue that never comes back. A 300-unit building leasing three months behind plan has burned seven figures before anyone finishes debating the brand campaign. Lightstone Group, the Moinian Group, TF Cornerstone, and Two Trees Management are among the real estate clients on this site, and the pattern across New York lease-ups repeats: the building has a beautiful brand, the campaign has reach, and the tour calendar is half empty anyway.

The constraint is qualified tours and how fast someone answers the inquiry. The plan buys search around applications, retargets the people who looked at floor plans, and puts the price and the move-in date in the ad so the wrong prospects never click. Calls count as conversions, because the best prospects pick up the phone.

Housing is a special ad category on Meta and Google, which removes targeting by age, gender, and ZIP code. The audience gets built from the property's own visitors, the interests the category allows, and geography drawn around how residents commute.

For TF Cornerstone, rebuilding paid search around application intent and retargeting people who had browsed but not applied raised applications 80 percent and the search conversion rate 730 percent.

An engagement usually begins with the leasing funnel: inquiries, tours, applications, and how long each step takes.

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A review of the leasing funnel shows where prospects drop between the ad and the signed lease.

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Quick answers

Housing rules

How do Fair Housing rules affect real estate advertising?

Housing ads run in the special ad category on Meta and Google, which removes targeting by age, gender, and ZIP code, along with interests that stand in for protected classes. Plans are built from the property's own audiences, the interests the category allows, and geography drawn around how residents commute.

Lease-up

What should a lease-up campaign optimize for?

Qualified tours and signed leases. Reach and clicks are easy to buy and do little for an empty unit, so the plan tracks inquiries, calls, tours, and applications, and watches how quickly the leasing team responds.

Geofencing

Does geofencing work for real estate advertising?

When the fence marks a behavior. A radius around the leasing office mostly reaches people who happen to be nearby. Fences around open houses in target neighborhoods and around competing buildings reach people who have shown intent, and for one residential client, open-house fences outperformed any radius around the office. Visits get measured against a holdout.